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Why Companies Fail and 16 Leadership Tips to Preserve the Union!
Recently I got into a discussion with employees of a firm I am working with and they identified what they do not appreciate in their leaders. They had identified the major reasons most leaders fail and suffer the consequences of high staff turnover. Here are 16 tips to help you develop a healthier leadership style.

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How To Use Strategic Listening to Grow Your Business, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
You have probably heard some variation of proverbs and quotes that indicate we should listen more than we talk. For example: Mark Twain said, “If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.” An old German proverb states, ”A man has two ears and one mouth so that he hears much and speaks little. And to follow-up on the listening more than talking, I want to add that we need to do much more than listen – we need to hear and understand. I have seen too many advertising and public relations campaigns touting the virtues of a company, organization and/or individual as a good listener. If you listen and do not hear, and if your hear and do not understand, you will not be very effective. Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach offers thoughts on strategic listening and its impact on growing business.

The Art of the Introduction
Just got back from Houston where I spoke for the Houston Technology Council. Houston has, by far, the funniest Web 2.0 babes in the world: Jenny Lawson of Good Mom/Bad Mom and The Bloggess; Laura Mayes of Digg for Chicks, aka Sk*rt; Erica O'Grady of Reinventing Erica; Tracey Lee Wallace of True Light Resources; and Carrie Pacini of OpMom. This is what Jenny was going to use to introduce me until she chickened out.
Art in the Corporate Environment
I want to take up the subject of presentations and hope to pass on some of our hard won and often challenged, expertise in this area! This is kicked off with the help of Stuart Price whose article in an old old edition of the MacUser subscribers newsletter, ‘MacUser 2’, took the words right out of our mouths back in 1997 when we first saw it. Well done Mr Price, all these years later your article is still valid! Perhaps that’s not such a good thing, but we’ll take it up now anyway! So with the very kind permission of the wonderful MacUser (leading Mac Magazine), it’s equally wonderful editor, Karen Harvey and the no less wonderful writer himself Stuart Price, we are including here the very same article.
Focus Groups are for Lipstick, not Technology
You're launching a new product, so of course you test your messages with customers. After all, you want to make sure your customers' mouths water (and their wallets open) when they hear your story. More than that, you want to get to know your target market; learn to think like them, speak like them, understand how they react to your story. So you decide to run a focus group. That's what everyone does, right? Wrong. In my humble experience the high technology market does not lend itself to focus groups.
Refill and Have Fun
It is a little known fact that fun is one of the secrets to sustainable success! The ability to have fun in every situation enables you to be more successful and more relaxed whether it is at home or at work. Oh sure, I can hear what you’re thinking. It’s the same words that come out of the mouths of my clients. Things like, “I couldn’t have fun at work, it would be unprofessional”, or “If I’m having fun I’m not being the best _____ (fill in the blank: spouse / executive / business owner / mother) I should be and I feel guilty about that”, and my favorite “I’m so busy, I don’t have TIME for fun”. Well, here are three reasons why I believe you must make time for fun and why it’s NOT a luxury item:

The powerful skill of listening
Out of the mouth of babes a lesson is brought concerning the forgotten skill of listening. It is amazing how one small child teaches more in a few moments than what can be gained from hours in a professional seminar. A exercise to be carried out in a small staff meeting is included.
2010; Getting Past 2009 and Working Smarter Going Forward
How do we focus on growth and revenue in a way that will allow organizations to increase and decrease staff levels in a socially conscious and fiscally responsible way? Even if you have no staff now - your goal is to grow your business and make it a viable, prosperous business. That means that we have a responsibility to consider the impact of our people decisions to hire or not - to terminate or not, etc. People give us their best and then in a downturn, sometimes find themselves on the street with mouths to feed and mortgages to pay. Somehow we must prepare them to take care of themselves while remaining committed to the organization's goals.
The Unconference: Two Feet Into the Business World
With the Internet and the online world comes a brand new vocabulary to get our heads around - concepts with new names seem to be being created daily, and we all know that ‘tweeting' has nothing to do with birds. The latest utterance to find its way into the mouths of the internet-savvy is the term ‘unconference'. In a nut shell, an ‘unconference' is a conference that tries hard to be as little like a traditional conference as possible. Sound confusing? It's really not. It's a participant-driven gathering that is centered on a theme or purpose, without things like sponsorship or normal fees. The crowd does the presenting, and hired speakers are replaced with, well, anybody that wants to have their say. The people that want the conference event are the people that organize, plan, participate it, and run the event.
Crazy People Buy Stuff Too!
The truth is, we all have had moments when we feel like we’ve completely lost it. The words “I feel like I’m going crazy” have come out of more mouths than we can imagine. The key is to stay focused.

Don't Vote For Me In 2004
Here's a true story of idiocy and self-deprecation. After the Twin Towers fell in 2001 (and after a few days of shock and mourning), like most big-mouths, I started spouting off about what I would do if I were president of these-here United States....
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