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Lesson #2: Play To Win
“I came in to win,” says Combs. “This is why I stay up late while other people are sleeping; this is why I don’t go out to the Hamptons.”

Lesson #4: Find Your Raison d’Etre
When Puck was asked once by a reporter what the best part of his job was, he replied, “The opportunity to work in the kitchen every day.”

Lesson #1: Managers Are a Company’s Main Motivators
When Noyce and Moore went to work for Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, both thought it was the opportunity of a lifetime. Within the industry, Shockley was considered a phenomenon; his physical intuition was legendary. “One of my colleagues claimed Shockley could see electrons,” says Moore. “He had a tremendous feeling for what was going on, say, in silicon.”

Donald Trump Apprentice
In 2004, Donald Trump proved that he could not only conquer the world of real estate, but also television. With the launch of The Apprentice, Donald Trump had created the number one new show on TV for adults aged 18-4 in its first season. Indeed, an average 20.7 million people were tuning in each week to hear Donald Trump proclaim, “You’re fired!”

Getting The Hole Story: How Joyce Came To Dominate The Donut

Thanks to Joyce, Canada has been called by some the “Timbit Nation.” Even the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have an unofficial radio code for Tim Hortons, as 10-99 or “Tango Hotel.” Every single day, for a product that costs just pennies to make, Tim Hortons brings in revenues of over $2 billion. How was this young boy from rural Nova Scotia who grew up on welfare able to become one of Canada’s most celebrated and successful businessmen?

Lesson #1: A Company Is Only As Strong As The Team Behind It
“One of the hallmarks of Onex is that since I started the company in 1983, every professional who has joined the company at our Toronto head office is still here,” says Schwartz. “We’ve had no turnover.”

Henry Ford Quotes
Henry Ford Quotes

When You Really Have to Say, "You're Fired!"
Although it’s become one of my signatures, firing people is not something I enjoy doing. In reality, I’d rather hire really great employees in the first place so that firing them is something I never plan on doing.

Fired or Fat
If given the choice, would you rather get fired or get fat? It looks like most Americans would prefer to take their chances in my boardroom.

Be Positive, But Realistic
Positive thinking is essential to success, yet so many people just don't have the persistence required to make it work for them. The reality is, most overnight success stories are no such thing. Just because you've heard of someone for the first time doesn't mean they haven't been working for 20 or 30 years or more to get where they are.

Men and Cosmetic Surgery
Not that long ago I talked about a new study that found more and more women are becoming addicted to Botox. Now I read that men are fueling a boom in cosmetic surgery and other treatments.

Never Quit: A Lesson from The Apprentice
I was shocked after a recent task on The Apprentice, when a candidate resigned instead of taking her chances in the boardroom. After having a tough time as project manager - and knowing her teammates certainly didn’t like her - Michelle threw in the towel and quit.

Learning from Lonely Farmers
It’s no big news that there are a lot of single people in the world hoping to hook up with that special someone. Some of them join dating services. Some go online. Some ask friends to fix them up on blind dates.

When to Listen

I always ask other people what they think. Whether it’s in my real-life boardroom when I’m making a multi-million dollar business decision or whether it’s on the set of The Apprentice in my famous boardroom, I like to know what people think. After all, I surround myself with talented advisors for that very reason. I value their opinions and want to hear them. But that doesn’t mean I always do what they say.

Dress for Success
With summer just around the corner, a lot of employees in a lot of businesses start dressing like it’s Casual Friday every day of the week. They utterly forget about professionalism and start dressing totally inappropriately for work.

Be Thorough
There’s really no such thing as knowing too much about what you’re doing.

The Venture Capital Capital Calamity Thing

Yo, BusinessWeek, the Trouble with VCs is not a new story. And Web 2.0 is not a "legitimately exciting frontier". Nevertheless, it is good fun reading this wildly bearish piece about the venture capital business. It touches on some legit issues, and will get attention. The VC industry is at a crossroads, no question, but things also look way worse than they are if you look at the VC biz solely through an IT lens.

Improve Your Public Speaking

At some point, persuasive public speaking is going to be vital to your personal success or the success of something you care about. It may be in a boardroom, a church, or a town hall. It may be in front of a camera. In these days of video-podcasting and YouTube, it's not just celebrities who need to know how to look good on TV. If you want to put yourself out there as an expert or advocate, you'd better be ready.

What can the Apprentice teach us?
So, were you, like me gripped to the Apprentice final on Sunday night? I don’t know about you, but I was routing for Kate who I thought developed the best product and executed better than Yasmina. Why then, did Yasmina emerge as the ultimate winner?

To Share or Not to Share? What a Question!

As successful business owners and corporate executives, many of us struggle with finding a good balance between being fierce leaders and taking the glory and profit of our hard work versus sharing the profit and the responsibility of the risk. This is one of the hardest of dilemmas for business owners and for top executives, often restricting the potential for growth. Here are some suggestions that will hopefully assist you as you are making the big decision on whether to expand on your own project or to seek for cross-collaborative opportunities or business associations...

Business Planning - Acknowledge the Old Goals First
An article about business planning and how to acknowledge what might be getting in the way with helpful coaching questions to guide your business planning efforts.

Overcoming Your Boardroom Presentation Fears
I have gone through a good number of Boardroom presentation with all the funny and awkward incidents that characterise this kind of presentations. I is a stress situation that requires preparation and wit. Here are some tips that may help.

The Big Disconnect Managing Generations Leadership Training
The Big Disconnect - Managing Generations - Leadership Training.

Poor Work Behaviors Begins with Poor Work Ethics
Are poor results happening at your business? If so, then you probably have some poor work behaviors. These behaviors are the symptoms of poor work ethics and that is where you need to begin if you wish to change your business results.

THE VALUE OF A PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT
I am sure that all of you who work in a corporate environment are familiar with your corporate mission statement? It is the one that typically hangs in the front reception area or perhaps on the wall in the boardroom. But do you have a personal mission statement and/or understand in a meaningful way what your purpose for living actually is?

Cleavage in the Boardroom
New approach to show your intellectual genius.

Sales a Strategic Boardroom Issue

Long the corporate stepchild, sales has largely been ignored by academics and many executives. However in increasingly competitive markets and increasingly sophisticated buyers a top notch sales force is no longer a nice to have but a must have. Farsighted executives are taking an increasingly critical look at their sales forces and asking searching questions about the ROI they are receiving from this significant investment.

A Project Blueprint - The Project Charter
Use this one-page tool to figure out how much work you have in front of you, intervene in problems earlier, and make fewer mistakes.

DOES A LACK OF EQ IMPACT PROFESSIONAL GOALS?

Emotions limit our intellectual ability and sabotage our best interests! It is not a question of education & skill that will make the difference in professional achievement & success; it is a question of access. It is about our ability to access that part of the brain where this learning is stored in times of tension, ambiguity and change. Scientific research is clear, emotions come before thought. We feel before we think. Why is this important to understand? Our “Emotional Brain” or site of emotional memory has the power to flood our processing center, the “Thinking Brain” or site of IQ and working memory. What happens? It is like our brain’s computer crashes!

How to Get from 20 Million to 100 Million in Online Sales: Lessons from Agora Publishing

I was thinking a lot about the success of our competitors such as Centerpointe and especially, Agora Publishing. Michael Masterson is the founder of Agora. Earlytorise is one of Agora's mini empires, because Agora Publishing itself is a $100M company based mainly on internet marketing. Although they have physical products, the bulk of what they do lies in internet marketing or using internet marketing channels. I found it interesting because most Internet marketers don't get that big. Most internet marketers celebrate when they earn $1M a year. What Agora makes is almost akin to the direct marketing giants, the offline marketing giants like Boardroom and Weiss International. We need to start doing what successful businesses are doing, so I thought to myself, what is Agora doing that we aren't?

Top Secrets of Successful Couplepreneurs

This article offers valuable insights to couples in business together to maximize their success in both their business and personal relationship. Written by a business and relationship coach who is a coupleprneur and has interviewed scores of successful couplepreneurs to discover the attitudes and behaviors that led to their prosperity. Read this article to learn about prosperity through partnership.

Addicted To The Apprentice Already And What A Mess!
Be warned – this posting reveals who has been ‘fired’ from the first episode and the rest of the post is only my observation and opinion based upon 60 minutes of edited TV, nothing more. Sir Alan Sugar with his two glum looking sidekicks are one side of the desk and 16 cocky looking candidates, the other, and the show begins. The Apprentice UK has started.

Why Corporate Change Programs Fail

Theories X, Y, and Z. MBO. Grid Management. Situational Leadership. T-groups. Excellence. TQM. Team building. Re-engineering. Empowerment. Diversity. The Seven Habits. You have probably heard of at least one of these programs for business and corporate change. Like insatiable lovers, corporations can journey from one program to another, sometimes not even pausing to take an organizational breath. It is more important to help people grow sanely than quickly. The belief that there's no such thing as too much growth has killed hundreds of companies, careers, marriages, and dreams.

Changing the Workplace - One Conversation at a Time
Learn how to leverage your own conversational style and how to collaborate with styles different than yours.

EQ Coaching The Ultimate Development Tool by Peggy Grall
Learn how coaching can accelerate the development and promote ability of Generation X

Making your Intellectual Property work for you
Bringing IP Management from the Backroom to the Boardroom.

Corporate Whisperers
In this article, find out how a horse whisperer who gentles wild horses without breaking or hurting them can teach our business leaders how to perform better in the boardroom.

10 Key Points You Must Know About Succession Planning for Your Business
Succession Planning isn't just about preparing for boardroom changes. It's about how to create seamless changeovers for opportunities that might present themselves. Through empowering your people, you generate enthusiasm and engagement.

Killer Negotiation Tactics for Basically Nice People
Negotiation isn't just something that happens in the boardroom. One of the tenets of being a successful business owner is handling conflict with aplomb. As you identify needs and agendas, you may succeed at translating misunderstandings into win-win situations.

A Millennial Intervention
An intervention for Millennials leaving the "bubble" of college and entering the "boardroom" of career.

Business Communication With PowerPoint Slides
Where do you stand on-stage or in the boardroom for maximum influence and impact on your audience?

The Blueprint For Better HR
HR professionals continue to bemoan the fact they aren't in the boardroom. But it's time for CEOs to pick HR up by the bootstraps and get more out of their HR - it may be the only way HR can force their way into the boardroom.

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