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Part 3 Business is Different For You: Don’t Do This!
So, did you do it? Did you go into the fields last night and have your Scarlett O’Hara moment? Did you feel that full-bodied determination to get out from the middle-of-the-curve, where everyone is okay with average? Did you feel the hope and belief in something so much bigger for your life and your business […]
Read more...Part 2: Business Is Different for You–The Reckoning
Yesterday, I wrote about the destructive war within 90% of“transformation artists”—those whose work it is to empower people (vs. other entrepreneurs). The war is this: they have a powerful Impulse that woke them up to this work, an Impulse that consumes them, really, to have an effect on the world…but then an opposing force works […]
Read more...Part 1: Business Is Different for You–Come Out of Hiding!
I’m sharing this less-than-flattering picture because it captures a key moment in a presentation I gave recently when I lost my composure and got positively HOPPING MAD. I’ve never actually lost it on an audience before, but here I am, literally jumping up and down in beyond-disbelief-frustration, as I called them out on the very […]
Read more...Don’t Leave This Out of Your 2016 Business Plans!
As a coach, consultant, trainer or speaker, are you considering something new to offer: a new presentation, new program or even entire new business brand as 2016 approaches? Nearly all businesses, large and small, leave out a crucial ingredient in planning their “Next Big Thing” and not only does it put their new idea at […]
Read more...Thank you, Grandma. Celebrating Women’s Entrepreneur Week!
Incredible as it may seem, one hundred years ago—1915—American women still did not have the right to vote on a national basis. This post’s image is a cartoon from Puck magazine in 1915: the torch of successful suffragists in the West awakens women in other parts of the country. In 1916, women’s suffrage was endorsed […]
Read more...To Sell Or Not to Sell? Questioning the Question
About two dozen years ago, an old high school friend tracked me down. I was really excited to speak with her; we’d been good pals years before but, as so often happens, college-and-beyond had put distance between us. I remember unleashing a flurry of questions in the first moments of our call–but rather than asking […]
Read more...Getting The BEST Answer In the Room
Have you ever seen that improv game, Questions Only, where the actors can only ask questions, and the first one who answers (with a period at the end) is out? In my public speaking training, I would bring in an improv instructor to take my students through the same exercise. Overall, each participant made it […]
Read more...How to Be a Fool-Proof Leader On April Fool’s Day and Every Day!
Today is April Fool’s Day–and in service of ensuring that YOU not be one yourself…here are some stories that will amaze you–and a vital quiz to take. In 1941, Alice Stewart was a resident in Oxford, England at the Radcliffe Infirmary. She was a highly respected doctor. She treated patients, but also undertook research projects on problematic, puzzling disease […]
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