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Magnetic Sponsoring - Does It Really Work? A Look Inside From A Top Producer
This free 7 day video boot camp explains how to attract more people into your primary business without spending endless hours cold calling and pitching friends / family. Magnetic Sponsoring will cha...More »

"Please talk, I'm listening."
The evening after a company business dinner, a wife tells her husband that her boss was quite impressed with how smart and interesting he was. "What in the world did you all talk about? He cou...More »

"ready to Die" Leadership
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “If a man hasn’t discovered something he is willing to die for, he is not fit to live.” Does this sound extreme to you? It does not sound extreme to me at all. T...More »

“if You Can’t Make Money Without Money, You Can’t Make Money With Money”
Picture a student living in a 1.5 room apartment with an internet connection, a full course load and a driving passion to make on online business that works. Ten years ago, most people would have thou...More »

1 Sigma Decisions in a Six Sigma World
Six Sigma has become the standard for product quality in our highly competitive world, but we are still wrestling with decision-making that is running at a less than one sigma success rate. Paul C. Nu...More »

10 Critical Elements of a Successful Business
The rules that a successful business operate by today are very different from the rules of 20 to 30 years ago. The widespread use of technology has dramatically cut response times and elevated custome...More »

10 Step Web Design and Development Contract Agreement
Copyright 2006 by: Cosmin Ghiurau This is not written by a professional lawyer or anyone close to one. It is written by a typical business owner of a successful web development company who has no la...More »

10 Strategies for Beating Overwhelm
How many of us have been in a position where we have more to do than can realistically fit into one day, or week. So we spend all of our time feeling rushed, being rushed, and wondering how on earth ...More »

10 Ways to Rejuvenate your Communication Game Plan
1. Use the elements of problem solving - Research - Planning - Implementation - Measurement/evaluation Many people only do planning and implementation. Research before you get started...More »

15! Count Them...15 Action Step to Leadership
Look! I see a leader ! I’m talking about you ! Yes, you ! You have potential and I see you as a leader ….. Seeing everything is possible is just the beginning. Who you were is done and in the pa...More »

2 Ways to Deal With Difficult Staff
Let me ask you a simple question; do you have any ‘difficult’ people on your team? One of the subjects managers ask me to speak about more than any other is: ‘How to Deal with Difficult Staff.’ As ...More »

2009 Luxury Industry Trends
In our exploration of the luxury industry, we have scoured the web for the most interesting, innovative products leading the latest trends. Resetting the gold standard, the importance of the human tou...More »

3 Actions to Reverse Declining Trends
One of the most exciting opportunities for a marketing leader is making a positive difference. A tangible means of measuring your impact is to reverse negative business trends. This shares learning ...More »

3 Keys To Grand Leadership
Nearly all managers inadvertently treat their employees in a manner that leads to less than desirable performance. Several leaders experience difficulty delegating duties. There appears to be the auto...More »

3 Negative Challenges Of 360 Assessment - And What To Do About Them
In 2001 Watson Wyatt published its ongoing study of the linkages between specific Human Resource practices and shareholder value at 750 large publicly traded companies. Bottom line they found that 360...More »

3 Ways To Boost Your Leadership Skills And Project Your Career
Its now an economic and statistical reality that we're living in a recessionary environment. With large corporations recruitment departments shrinking and some even making redundancies, career prospec...More »

3 Ways to Motivate Yourself for Success
It is often said that success is simply just a state of mind and there is some truth to the statement. It’s important to know how to motivate yourself , as self-motivation can mean the difference bet...More »

3-d Business
Are you a business leader looking to take your business to new heights? Follow the “3-D Business” approach and you are guaranteed to see your business land in-line with your goals. Dangers – In busi...More »

300 Percent
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it one hundred ten times--that overused cliché urging you to give 110%! But, times change and 110% is no longer good enough. If I am in a leadership role I wa...More »

360 Feedback Fundamentals
360 feedback is a leadership development process in which survey data is collected from various sources (e.g., bosses, peers, subordinates, and self) regarding leaders’ competencies. This feedback is...More »

4 Essential Leadership Skills
It’s impossible to pinpoint every skill a leader must have to be successful. Different organizations and business require different skills and traits. However, the following 4 leadership skills are ne...More »

4 Pitfalls of Supervising Friends and Family and How to Overcome Them
Supervising friends and family has the potential to be one of the most productive work relationships that exists in the workplace. Sadly, this is not always the case. Whether supervising a long time...More »

4 Reasons You Need Bigger Goals
In May of 1961 in Houston, Texas, President John F. Kennedy set one of the biggest goals in human history - to put a man on the moon and bring him home safely before the end of the decade. And many in...More »

4 Steps to Getting and Keeping “A” List Clients
“Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.” - Brian Tracy Last week, we talked about letting go of “D” List Clients, but this begs the question, “How do you get...More »

4 Steps To Transforming Your Negative Self-Talk Into An Inner Coach.
Your thoughts have a powerful effect on you. They affect your attitude, your physiology, and your motivation to act. Your negative thoughts actually control your behavior. They can make you stutter, s...More »