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Leadership: Now More than Ever!
Winston Churchill is a hero of mine. Partly, I think, because he wasn't perfect. He was neither an obvious hero nor someone acknowledged early on to be the leader that he eventually became. He just put his head down, plowed through and never gave up. He was honest and hard-working, pragmatic and passionate. Sound like any small business owners you know?

Changing Lives One At A Time: How Jenny Craig Made Millions By Helping Millions of Others
“I can’t wait for tomorrow,” says Craig. “You can do anything and be anything you want.” In starting up a company that helped others conquer their weight issues, Craig did exactly what she wanted to do. She just happened to make millions of dollars along the way, too. How did this one-time overweight mother of two become not only a successful entrepreneur but also the hero of millions of people around the world?

Tom Monaghan Quotes
Tom Monaghan Quotes
An Apprentice Lesson in Leadership
Recently on The Apprentice, I had to ask a member of the winning team Kinetic to volunteer to go to the losing team, Arrow.
Entrepreneur Things
Entrepreneurs ( I need to share this with you) do the most ridiculous things. (I’m not going to name any of those things here because I don’t want to hurt the feelings of the dumb entrepreneurs who thought them up) But, I’m sure you know what I mean. I’m sure you’ve asked yourself the question from time to time, “What in the world was he thinking?” Well, that’s the subject of this morning’s blog. (It’s morning where I am, and I woke up with the thought that I needed to get this out of my system, off my chest, out of my mind, so here goes.)
Those "Instant" Successes
Many times an unknown person does something spectacular and suddenly becomes a "hero," a public figure, an "overnight success," the object of much envy. Let's explore this "overnight success" syndrome.

Those "Those "Instant" SuccessesInstant" Successes
Many times an unknown person does something spectacular and suddenly becomes a "hero," a public figure, an "overnight success," the object of much envy. Let's explore this "overnight success" syndrome.

Discovering A Leader's Defining Moment
Defining transitions are the greatest opportunities to live life doing what you are meant to do. Unfortunately for most of us, it takes a boulder to get our attention to move on and follow our destiny. The boulder usually is a loss of some kind or someone. Even though a relationship or event may not be a pleasant one, we know what to expect from it. What lies ahead during change is uncertain and scarier than the present experience. But when our thoughts are focusing on what's making us unhappy we actually attract more unhappiness. It is hard to believe that we would attract what we don't want, but our thoughts are energy in motion attracting more of the same.

Book Review: Ogilvy on Advertising
David Ogilvy (the creative head of Ogilvy & Mather) describes in plain language in his classic book what it takes to create great advertising and lead an organization. He also includes lots of advertisements that work – with a description of why they were effective.
Successful Business Marketing: What Does Your Marketing Archetype Say About You?
Use these three easy tips on how to use the power of Marketing Archetypes and attract better, higher paying clients. You'll quickly be able to write and talk about what you do in a compelling, powerful and authentic way.
How Can You Make Your Voice Sound Interesting?
Here are 10 ways to ensure your voice sounds interesting when presenting:
The Instruction Manual for the Entrepreneur’s Mind
What are the secrets of the world's most successful entrepreneurs? Open the instruction manual for the entrepreneur's mind to find out what are the mental strategies enable to do what others only dream of.
Where Does Courage Live?
Courage is something that people talk about but they don't necessarily know when they're doing it. And the reason for that is because in that moment, the one requiring courage, they aren't aware that they need to exhibit it; rather, they're busy being courageous.
Increase Sales by Removing the Chains of Emotional Bondage
To increase sales does require a lot of emotions. However, some of these emotions may be keeping you from your sales goal. Learn how many thoughts you have and how a recent article marketing challenge demonstrates those chains of emotional bondage.
Persuasive Writing: How to Harness the Power of the Story
Most people love stories for entertainment-we go to the movies to watch stories, we read novels before bed, and we share our own stories with friends. But aside from the entertainment value, storytelling is a powerful marketing and selling technique that you can use for business-related writing projects. And by understanding how stories work, you can engage your readers and teach them with examples that illustrate your ideas.
Raising Service Prices in a Recession
You may think it impossible, but some businesses are raising their prices during this recession. How about you? Are there specific areas you can target? How about specific products? One thing for sure, if you give up without trying, your prices will not get raised this year.
Who Are You?
Your sense of personal greatness is never more than a thought away. Start to see yourself as your own hero. Be the You you truly want to be and make your decisions based on the You that is connected to your inherent greatness.

Whose Life Is It Anyway?
As a fan of Jim Carrey, one of my all-time favorite movies is The Truman Show. The hero, Truman, lives inside a Utopian bubble carefully constructed just for him by a savvy media company. Unbeknownst to Truman, hidden cameras broadcast his every move live on television 24/7 to an audience of millions. While outwardly, he appears happy-go-lucky, inwardly a subtle desperation begins to take hold, as he gradually realizes that the life he thought was his, is in fact a monstrous hoax perpetrated upon him.
Leadership Lessons: What is Success at Work
There is a play that made the rounds decades ago called "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying" in which the hero knew he had "made it" when he got the key to the executive washroom. The young hero was naive on his journey to the top. Yet the pattern handed to him from prior generations is that money is the key to success. Then decades later there is the film "Wall Street" where money is still the key to success. Yet now the hero is not naive, merely ruthless. It doesn't matter how you get it, so long as you get it. Ethics be damned. Lie, cheat, marry the bosses daughter, marry the boss, just get the money. It seems as a culture this pattern of money as the measure of success continues to be handed from generation to generation with little discussion or redefinition.

Where Could You Be Living Your Life More Fully?
What change would you make - in your work, relationship or life - if you had no fear of failing or doubts about having what it takes to succeed? What chances might you take if you weren't scared of messing up? Discover how to tap your courage, to be bigger than your fears and to become the powerful creator of the life you truly want.
Stress and the Sales Cycle
On one hand we are being told that the economy is improving, turning around, doing better. On the other hand we hear our colleagues say that sales are down, services are still being cut back. Jobs are being cut and the jobless rate continues to inch higher. There is the flavor and smell of fear in almost every workplace. If sales are down then what is up? Stress and office conflict are on the increase and the natural tendency to blame and judge is on the rise. Recently a very angry client called me with the following question. Actually, it was more than a question; it was a ten minute rant and rave about injustice and unfairness. It went something like this "He stole my idea. He used my exact words and took all the credit.

How can you pay it forward?
What can you do to pass on your good fortune to others? By giving to others when others give to you creates a world full of positive energy.
I’m Looking for a Hero
The sound of laughter ringing out from the dining room where some friends are having dinner together, a simple thing, but something that has been a long time coming back into my life, only because the barriers I put up to keep the pain out, also kept the joy out as well. Simple conversation and general chit-chat mixed with good feelings, comfortable surroundings and the odd vino or two made a Friday eve not just the end of yet another week, into something great and memorable.
3 Obstacles to Producing High Talent Teams
Success is a team sport. In this era of connectedness the lone hero is a thing of the past. And yet, one person can make a difference in the success of a project, a division, a company. There are three major obstacles that must be considered when you lead a team or coordinate projects. They all are a combination of individual behaviors and how these behaviors react in a system of relationships.
Stress-Free Selling® - Close Three Times Faster
Who are the absolute, positive easiest prospects to close? The ones that take the least time, offer the least resistance, and are the easiest to get a hold of? Referrals! Ironically, despite the fact that everyone knows how easy referrals are to get, salespeople rarely ask for them and even fewer make it a habit of asking at every reasonable opportunity. Here's the simple solution to triple your closing ratio...
Scheduling for Success
Working from home you face many challenges. The first challenge to overcome is to set your schedule, and keep it. While that sounds easy enough, how do you set a schedule and more importantly, how do you stick to it?

A Day In The Life Of A 1-800-WATER-DAMAGE Franchisee
You've probably heard of them or seen them around town, but even if you haven't, this article will give you an in-depth look at the day-to-day operations, roles and responsibilities of a franchise with 1-800-WATER-DAMAGE
To Go or No Go That Is The Question
Many entrepreneurs would rather have their front teeth pulled without anesthetic than go to the time and trouble of creating a feasibility plan; often because they are afraid of what it will reveal
Help Your Clients Be Heroes
Don’t deprive your clients of the opportunity to be heroes. Ask them to introduce you to people you can help in the same way you’re helping them.
Catching Flies with Chopsticks
One of the best scenes in martial arts cinema features the hero, Mr. Miyagi, practicing with chopsticks to catch a house fly. Of course, he’s never actually caught one, but he keep trying! (If you think Daniel is the hero of this movie, don’t read any further!)
Ten Ways To Be Better At Dealing With Difficult People
Dealing with difficult people is critical if you are to manage the rest of your team and business to the max. Yet sometimes, just one person can demand your attention, in one way or another, in a way more disproportionate amount than everyone else put together. And if you have two of them, well...
Ask Me Another - Just One More Thing
Building strong relationships is all about having two sides appreciate each other and want to build a bond that works both ways. This can generate the enormous benefits of collaboration. Here are twelve benefits why...
Being comfortable and uncomfortable in our own skin - a thank you to Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs changed what's normal and will forever therefore be a hero of mine. What are you changing that's normal, that no longer serves you and the world?

Other hero Related Articles

Catching Flies with Chopsticks
One of the best scenes in martial arts cinema features the hero, Mr. Miyagi, practicing with chopsticks to catch a house fly. Of course, he’s never actually caught one, but he keep trying! (If you think Daniel is the hero of this movie, don’t read any further!)
Leadership: Now More than Ever!
Winston Churchill is a hero of mine. Partly, I think, because he wasn't perfect. He was neither an obvious hero nor someone acknowledged early on to be the leader that he eventually became. He just put his head down, plowed through and never gave up. He was honest and hard-working, pragmatic and passionate. Sound like any small business owners you know?

Your Hero’s Journey: A metaphor for life and business coaching
Did you know you are on a Hero’s Journey? If you are undergoing significant change in your life, you have been called to embark on a journey of transformation, which Joseph Campbell identified as The Hero’s Journey. No hero undergoes transformation alone, and this article describes how coaching can help you navigate the future with more ease, confidence and resilience.
Leaders Invent Themselves
Look at the mess we're in. Why doesn't somebody do something? When was the last time you heard or even thought that? Look! Up in the air, it's Superman! We're saved. What a hero. If only I had his powers I could be a hero. If only I was born a leader. Wrong! The big myth is that leaders are born. The reality, in the words of Warren Bennis, author of On Becoming a Leader, is "Leaders Invent Themselves".

Life After Military Service
There are 2 type of heroes: Those that risk their lives to protect their family and fellow countrymen, and those that risk their financial security to preserve the fundamentals of their country's principles. You have served our grateful nation and protected us from the evil that surrounds us, and we are eternally in your debt. You are a true hero, even though I know your honor does not allow you to think of yourself that way. You, more than anyone else, understand what it means to live for something and being prepared to defend something. This is why I believe the entrepreneur is the second type of hero. Our county was founded on rugged individualism and the opportunity to pursue our own path to success, not to have our success dictated and determined by someone else. The entrepreneur does not rely on a safe and secure wage, but ...
Leadership Lessons from Charlie Sheen, John Edwards and Tiger Woods
What constitutes character? Who's your hero? Are you a hero in someone else's eyes? Are you a person of good character? How do you recognize one? Read on to see how you can change your behavior patterns to forever change and enrich your life.
Leadership Lessons: What is Success at Work
There is a play that made the rounds decades ago called "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying" in which the hero knew he had "made it" when he got the key to the executive washroom. The young hero was naive on his journey to the top. Yet the pattern handed to him from prior generations is that money is the key to success. Then decades later there is the film "Wall Street" where money is still the key to success. Yet now the hero is not naive, merely ruthless. It doesn't matter how you get it, so long as you get it. Ethics be damned. Lie, cheat, marry the bosses daughter, marry the boss, just get the money. It seems as a culture this pattern of money as the measure of success continues to be handed from generation to generation with little discussion or redefinition.

How Powerful Are You? Become Your Own Super Hero.
There isn't a super hero "out there" who can save you from your situation, fix your problems, or take away your fears. You have to tap into your own super hero; to identify the fears that are holding you back and to make a decision not to reclaim the power they have wielded.
How To Be A Hero With Presentation Skills Training
Are you the hero when you present in front of people? Are you consistently chosen as the person to open minds and close deals? If you want to be the hero in your business, these 5 tips show you how.
StorySelling “How to Write Mini User Stories”
Why: Use mini user stories, with the right sales message, so that your salespeople are able to sell value and differentiate your offering instead of pitching product and reducing price. Mini User Stories: Make the stories short. Use only one constraint per story otherwise you risk flooding the Buyer with too much information. Make the Buyer the Hero of the Story: Many Customer Stories make the company out to be the hero who rode in on their white shinny horse to save the Buyer.

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