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Looking to connect with people? ShoutNow!

Picture by javierCit0 Have you ever had a situation where you needed to coordinate with a group of people and something came up at the last minute? Maybe you were meeting a group somewhere and the plans changed at the last minute. Maybe you’re the coach for the kids soccer team and the game gets […]

Twas the Night before Christmas…

The stockings were hung from the fireplace with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas would soon be there. To my friends, family, clients and readers from all over – Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 2008 has been a challenging year, but there’s good reason to hope that betters days are in the future and we’ve […]

What to do when you meet a Tiger in the Jungle…

I was just on a great call with Verne Milot, Owner of Growth Associates and a colleague of mine through the Professional Business Coaches Alliance (PBCA). Verne was doing a presentation on how to grow a professional services business and shared some of his personal experiences when he was just getting started a few years […]

Things going too fast? How to get into the zone

photo by geckoam    The clock’s running downThe team’s losing groundTo the opposing defenseThe young quarterbackWaits for the snapWhen suddenly it all starts to make sense He’s got all kinds of timeHe’s got all kinds of time – Fountains of Wayne, All Kinds Of Time Although the song is about football, the idea that things […]

Where does all that time go?

There’s an old management adage – “You can’t manage what you can’t measure”. This can be overstated (and make things way too complicated sometimes), but in general it’s hard to make improvements, in fact it’s even hard to know how you’re doing if you’re not measuring some key things. As an example, one of the […]

Can you see the opportunity inside that problem?

“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we […]