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8 Signs of a Positive Leader
How do we know when we're following a true leader instead of a sensationalist?
Assumptions Anyone?
Social media gives power to our assumptions. If we're viewed as leaders in our fields - our assumptions are often taken as facts by our audiences.
Convenient Commitments
Remember when our word was our bond, and a handshake sealed a deal?
New Tricks
Can you teach an old dog new tricks?

If it Looks like a Duck....
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck - let it be a duck.
Do I Expect Too Much?
Have the rules for business courtesy changed in the 21st century?
All I Ask...
7 things to remember about how to treat a customer.

Sensationalism is not Expertise!
Anyone can be sensational. You don't need experience, intelligence, savvy or much else to throw mud.

I'll Do It Tomorrow
“Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.” ~Victor Kiam

Is Yesterday's News Preventing Your Success?
Never underestimate the power of focus to create success.

Signs
How often do we see a sign in business and simply ignore it?

3 Leaders Who Follow the Signs
These companies trust their intuition, signs and the facts, evolving to intercept opportunities for growth!

Flinching is for Sissies, Right?
Asking for help is not a sign of weakness....
The Other Side of Fear
Yet once we face that fear - reach out for help - the relief is extraordinary.
Don't Let Those Assumptions Hold You Back!
How often do we not take a positive step forward because we assume we'll have to go through some fires to get there?
Monkey See, Monkey Do
The old idea of Monkey See, Monkey Do doesn't just apply to monkeys.
Is Can't Limiting Your Growth?
Replacing "We can't," with "What if?" is a big step toward releasing the status quo that's holding us back. Once we ditch that gravity, the sky can be our limit! 
What's Your Intent?
We can’t control the news media, the gurus, the drama queens and all the others. We can control our own intent.
Dissension in the Ranks
Popularity is not the most important part of a leader’s job description. Sometimes the decisions are tough. When we don’t step up and make the tough calls to ditch the dissension, our business and all of our employees suffer.
3 Steps for Leaders When the Customer is Wrong
Successful businesses don’t blindly follow others, even their biggest customers. Successful businesses listen and learn from their markets. And then they think for themselves.
Adding a Dash of Critical Thinking to the Social Media Stew
I guess if there was one thing I could change about the status quo of my business world it would be the lemming-like attitude on the social web.
Are you an 'And' or an 'Or'?
Our status quo training tells us that business is a battle. It's either us OR our supposed competitors. What opportunities are we missing because of that thinking?
Serving for Success
The elements of business success go far beyond simple bottom line calculations. Success comes from an attitude and focus on serving others, not just our balance sheets.
Time Honored Truths
Challenging our status quo beliefs, actions and processes is important as we reach for sustainable growth. The truths we hold dear may be holding us back. The truths we've forgotten, or ignored, may indeed be our key to success.
Authors as Entrepreneurs and Heroes
Whether you are a book review editor, media producer, awards director, or literary association leader, if you are blacklisting bootstrapped authors, you are a huge part of the problem. The talented new voices are out there, but you must be open to hearing them regardless of the business model behind their work. Put your money where your mouth is and support your own.
You Get What You Pay For!
Contraction is great for silly dollars. We all know there are ways to save and reduce spending, in our business and in our lives. But we must be conscious and selective about where we cut - and where we invest.
Gravity Happens
It's not just dinosaurs that get stuck in a tar pit of gravity. We can all get stuck in our status quo, without even seeing it coming. That's the tough thing about status quo and gravity; they're sneaky. Even the best of innovators can get stuck in gravity sometimes.
3 Steps to Avoid Gravity
Gravity’s a given – just like Change. But we get to choose how much Gravity we gather.
Will Your Sales Defy Gravity?
The world of professional sales is on the cusp of major change. This new reality simultaneously threatens and challenges us, but like it or not, things are changing. The question before us is, “Are we going to drive it, or become its victims?”
Who Says we Have to Choose?
As you create tactical plans, there’s often no need to choose between a number of great options. You can stage those options, evolve your plan to match the changing winds of the market - and win all those market opportunities for growth!
7 Examples of Status Quo Interruptus
I continue to be amazed at what we can accomplish and discover when we chuck our Gravity and view our world, our lives or our business with a Zero Gravity perspective.
We're Stuck!
In a world where skepticism rules, maybe the lesson we all need to learn from Maverick is that it's time we trusted more.
Too Many Balls
Trying to catch all the balls that might contribute to that goal won't propel us to growth. It will just wear us down.
When Good Enough…Isn’t
When it comes to the status quo, one phrase defines it and ensures it will continue.
7 Keys to Market Launch Success
If you want to launch with market momentum that powers revenues - forget the way you've always done it. Step up and think different!
Is Profit the Sustainable Goal?
In our new world, sustainability is just as important as profitability. The question is, how do we push big business to adopt that focus? Especially when that Secret Status Quo is still working in favor of the "big people".
Market Value is Not Determined by Wall Street
For every customer or partner success that we empower, we attain more than just revenue; we capture Market Value.
The Power of Solitude
It's extremely rare to hear someone say, "I get my best ideas at work." You cannot hope to experience the quiet needed to unearth your greatest ideas if you are running 100 miles an hour and have seventy things on your to-do list.
That Zero Gravity Instinct
Does your business have that Zero Gravity instinct for growth.
Blue Birds or Vultures?
We all have unexpected events fly across our path. The question is - do we see them as blue birds of opportunity, or threatening vultures?
The Thin Line
How do you react to the word manipulate? Probably not too positively. Manipulation is a bad thing, right? Yet we practice the art of persuasion every day in our businesses - and persuasion is a form of manipulation.
Reading Between the Lines is for Dating
Forcing your audience to read between the lines to understand your value is ineffective at best. You'll lose your listener before you ever connect.
Settling for Less
Poor service seems to have become the status quo. Why is that? In business we all talk the talk of customer focus, we all share the same vision - but in execution we seem to fall far short. I'm beginning to wonder if it's our own fault - as customers, not as business leaders. Are we settling for less?
Big Doesn’t Mean Slow!
Big companies have a choice. We can let our mass drag us down until eventually, we’re nothing but dead weight trying to keep up. Or, we can use our momentum to create change and market disruption - and stay in the lead.
My Own Personal Gravity
Personal Gravity includes those beliefs and behaviors that limit us in our personal lives. Personal Gravity runs rampant in all our lives, it's part of being human. We learn from our experiences, hang onto that which we know to be true and create habits - in our thoughts and our behaviors. When those habits no longer serve us - they become Personal Gravity.
Zero Gravity Business Principle # 5: Responsibility
We need to change the way we define success - in business and our personal lives. Those definitions create some of the biggest and most dangerous Gravity around.
Passion, the Herd and Objectivity
We all talk about the value of objectivity. But it’s not as easy as it sounds. It’s easy to lose our objectivity, to adopt the beliefs and perspectives of those around us. The more we interact with others and their beliefs, the easier it is to mind meld with them, and lose our objective focus.
Assumptions
How often do assumptions step in to define our beliefs, our actions and our very lives? We all know the old rule about what happens when we assume. Yet, I find in my own life that no matter how much I say I won't make assumptions - I still do.
How Quickly We Forget
I started using Dragon Naturally Speaking products about a year ago. I actually bought the software some three years ago but had a few false starts and finally gave up on the idea of dictating to my computer. It wasn't that the products were hard to use or didn't work - they are easy and do work.
How to Upgrade to the Next Version of Yourself
ULTIMATELY: Upgrading yourself benefits everybody. Here's how.
Sweating the Wrong Stuff
Whatever it is - if we choose to focus on something that is known, comfortable and in our control, even as other things are crying for our attention - well, we're sweating the wrong stuff. And that's a great big Gravity No No.
Growing in a Down Economy
When we deliver unique true compelling value that matches opportunities where buyers will pay for that value, we fuel our growth.
5 Lessons from a Master Storyteller
We can all learn to bring our message to life with fabulous stories. We can all learn to be better storytellers - focusing on our customers and prospects, and not our own chest thumping selves. That's where true marketing begins!

The Dangers of HindSight
Don't assume Hindsight is 20/20. That will send you reeling every time.
Time For A New Pump
Our economy has moved on, offering new and exciting opportunities for success to those who are willing to ditch their gravity, think differently and move on to new ways of creating sustainable profits.
A Lesson from 33
33 men escaped their underground cell smiling and positive, joined together in faith, defying all the odds. Just think what can we do with a focus on the positive when the little bumps hit our lives.
Changing the Game
Changing the Game can save our butts.
Is Fear Really a Great Motivator?
The idea behind Provocative Selling is basically to scare the heck out of your customer by creating Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt about their business and its future. Since when did fear become the primary motivator for customer relationships?
Horizons of Opportunity
Opportunity is all around us. That’s why we need to focus.
Letting Go
Letting go is one of the hardest things we humans can do. It's in our nature to hang on tightly to things that are safe, comfortable and make us feel good. Whether it's our favorite belief or our favorite teddy bear – we like to hang on to what we know.

Priorities
If you think you're too busy to question your business legends and knowns about your products your value and your business - stop and ask yourself "Why am I in business? Who am I here to serve?"
I Need Some Help
How often do you ask for help from others? If you're like me, it's a hard thing to do. Many of us are taught that asking for help equates to not being capable, to admitting some kind of flaw or weakness.
Lessons From My Wallet
I want to share a funny story today about my own Gravity. I find Gravity in my life so often I just have to giggle.
3 Simple Shifts to Success in the New Economy
History has proven that the best opportunities for success come on the heels of an economic dip. Now is the time to shift your thinking and your actions. When you shift your focus from Gravity to Growth - your business will do the same.
Subtle Shifts
I let my own Gravity diminish my dreams. The shift was so subtle I didn't even notice - until my new friend began playing back a bigger set of dreams. What about your dreams? Have you checked them lately?
Set Us Free
We sometimes dread stepping up for the truth - especially when it's an unpopular position. We fret and fear, wonder how people will react and then finally - when we do step up - we feel so much better. And usually people embrace the truth much better than we expected.
Don't Break the Eggs
You can't be dynamic without breaking some eggs and tipping the boat. It's impossible.
Zero Gravity Business: LifeLock
Sometimes you have to take the plunge, do something different or whacky just to get attention. Check out Lifelock, a Zero Gravity Business.
How Good is Your Guru?
The meteoric rise of the guru, thanks to social media, is an interesting and sometimes scary phenomenon for us. Why? Because among our supposed gurus are, well, a number of just plain empty suits. What did I just say? Heresy!

Other Defy Gravity Related Articles

Is This Stock Market Rally Believable?
I admit I am far too guilty of trying to rationalize what my eyes are seeing as the market seems to defy gravity and continues to move higher. I usually laugh when I see some respected pundit or the CNBC zoo-crew provide a reason for market movement (almost always after the fact) as the answer is usually never as complicated as they make it out to be.

My First Defy Gravity Interview
Kimberly Bohannon or Go For Your Dream interviews Rebel Brown about Defy Gravity and how to grow your business.
When We Look the Other Way
The easiest path often isn't the best path. By looking the other way, ignoring the Gravity in front of us, we destine ourselves to a life and business flight bound for trouble. If everyone's ignoring the Gravity - our world will continue to spin farther and farther out-of-control. Gravity will win - and sooner or later we'll crash and burn.
How to Step Out and Soar Amidst the Noise of Social Networking Today: Finding Your Wings In the Middle of the Big Flap!
There are five key ingredients to getting noticed in today’s crowded virtual networking. Once you have these soundly in place, simply continue to mix with consistence and persistence for results that will have you leading the way and soaring above the din of those unable to defy gravity.
A Recipe for Gravity Suck and Staying Stuck
You hear a lot of advice from the so called experts. Defy Gravity! Be forward thinking! Be innovative! But what if you don’t want to? What if you like things just the way they are right now, and have no desire to make stratospheric leaps in your business or increase your results?

I Missed the Joy
One of the biggest dreams in my life has been to become a published author. That dream came true last week. Last week I launched my first book - Defy Gravity. And I was so stuck in my own Gravity, I missed the joy.
2 Sure Signs of Gravity Ahead
We are Natural Born Gravity Machines - we create Gravity as part of our daily experience. That means we have to defy gravity as part of our daily experience too - if we want to grow beyond the excuses and into the freedom of limitless thinking and being.
But It Never Rains...
"Never" is a very long time. It's also a high Gravity word. "Never" clouds our vision, limits our growth and leaves us just plain blindsided - standing in gravity, clueless and completely unprepared. This Gravity impacts our business and personal lives.
The Gravity of Doing
Taking stock, reflecting on our business, its opportunities and issues - being in the reality of our business versus doing and doing and more doing - that's the way to Defy Gravity thinking and see with a fresh perspective. We simply cannot be in our reality, see our truth - when we are so busy doing.
Organizational Gravity: Three Steps to Foster Continuous Improvement, Defy Obsolescence and Take Flight
Organizational gravity keeps an organization grounded and focused, contributing to a passion for continuous improvement at a tactical level. However, these improvements seem to arrive at the expense of innovation and adaptability. So what steps can an organization take to defy organizational gravity?
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