Innovation – A Simple Process to Start the Ball Rolling

Innovation – A Simple Process to Start the Ball Rolling

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...
What Are You Going To Do Differently?

What Are You Going To Do Differently?

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...
Planning for 2014 – Where Are You Going?

Planning for 2014 – Where Are You Going?

Last week I wrote about Planning and the importance of reviewing what you did this last year.  Once you’ve done that the next step is to look at where you want to be at the end of the year.   Here are some questions to think about and answer. These are just some to...
Planning For Next Year – What Worked This Year?

Planning For Next Year – What Worked This Year?

Have you started planning for next year, or like so many of us are you hoping that the planning will do itself?  OK, you know as well as I do that planning doesn’t do itself, so let’s take an easy start and look at what worked last year.  First you’ll want to...
Are You Living Up To Your Brand?

Are You Living Up To Your Brand?

First you dreamt your vision, next you articulated it and as you articulated it you created your brand, that representation of who you are.  It begins with the words that reflect who you are and then it also becomes the visible representation of those words.  More...