3 Views of a Leader

Sep 21, 2014 | Business

Leadership isn’t a promotion along your career track. Your tenure has nothing to do with leadership. Expertise, experience, and being liked are not qualifications for effective leadership. In fact, I’ve seen leaders with these attributes actually fail because when the...

Hard To Lose A Client

Sep 2, 2014 | Business

Like most professionals, retaining clients is important to you and you work at it. In fact, you may even put up with more than you should, but that’s another conversation. The point is that client retention is foremost on your mind. But truth be told, it’s really not...

Be an Energy Source

Aug 24, 2014 | Business

It’s Monday morning and time to get after it. Another week for more opportunities to solve complex problems, serve challenging clients and practice your profession. Life couldn’t be better. You’re good at it; you love it and you live it. Is that what you think about...

How You Think Matters

Aug 11, 2014 | Business

“With all due respect, I believe this will be our finest hour.” Sound familiar? It’s one of the best lines in the 1995 movie, Appolo 13 with Tom Hanks. It was said in the control room by the actor playing Gene Kranz when he overheard a couple of engineers discussing...

Your Lingering LIst

Jul 21, 2014 | Business

In last week’s message, I recommended that you take action to get the result you want rather than take a “wait and see” approach and then settle for however it works out. When I wrote it, I had in mind some of my clients and acquaintances who tend to delay action. I...