If you’re a business owner, team leader or manager, then you’ve likely had the experience of going through a full day and not getting anything done. Possibly because you’re easily distracted (it happens – Squirrel!!! ), but more likely the problem is that every time you started to focus on something and get stuff done, […]

But here’s the thing – you have a choice about which story you tell yourself and you can CHOOSE to go with a story that generates a positive outcome rather than a negative one.

So you’re packing your bags in a few weeks?  You’re team says they can handle it, but how do you know for sure?  The heart of the summer is upon us and hopefully that means there is a vacation of some form on your calendar, even if it’s just an extended weekend.    But before you […]

The CEO Next Door is a new book written by Elena Botelho, Kim Powell and Tahl Raz and unlike many leadership books, it’s based on a lot of hardcore research which leads to some interesting insights about what it takes to be an effective CEO / Business Leader. Botelho and Powell have done an in-depth […]

One of the big challenges to being an entrepreneur / business owner is that the scope of what you worry about quickly expands to include everything in your business ecosystem – your employees, your customers, even the vendors that you work with. You do your level best to balance the needs of everyone against what […]

We all do it from time to time.  We waffle back and forth on a decision and when we finally decide to follow through and do it, the only question we end up asking ourselves is, “Why did I wait so long to do that?”   Why is it so hard to change?   This past […]