by Jane | Feb 12, 2014 | Innovation
What are you doing differently this year? Maybe this is the year you want to be more innovative. But you’re not quite sure how to do it or where you should begin. An associate shared a way to ease into innovation with me a couple of weeks ago and I thought it was...
by Jane | Jan 22, 2014 | Focus, Goals, Innovation, Leadership, Problem Solving
What do you do each morning when you start work? Do you jump in and start reading emails, returning calls, answering questions, solving problems … you know all that urgent stuff that busy people do every day to keep busy. Do you know what the effect this would have...
by Jane | Dec 31, 2013 | Goals
Have you finished your plans for the new year? Are you going to increase your pipeline? Grow your customer base? Write a book, blog more? Outsource the tasks you’re tired of doing? You name it what are you going to do? Can I ask you to do one thing though before you...
by Jane | Oct 29, 2013 | Innovation
How do we innovate? How do we think outside of the box? Ideas are the life blood of growing organizations or new organizations, but what ideas and how do we get there? In order to be receptive to ideas you must be open to the idea that either you can come up with...
by Jane | Oct 8, 2013 | Problem Solving
Last week I was stuck for a couple of days. I just wasn’t sure what I should be doing. OK. maybe there was a little bit of overwhelm in there also. Sometimes we’re stuck because we don’t know what the next step is. While sometimes we’re stuck because we have too...