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Sell, Sell, Sell, Sell
What is a business without sales? If you want to survive and thrive you must have customers that purchase goods and services. This is true for all organizations, even non-profit. Sales people can be the hardest to manage and motivate as they tend to be high energy and independent types.

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Great Places To Work For
If we ask a random sample of employees in any organization what causes them to like to stay with their the organization, we will get tens of different reasons that are all valid, but vary to reflect the personal views of the respondents. While some employees will focus on tangible explicit motivators, others will focus more on intangible implicit ones. That's, too, is natural as people's motives are driven by their different needs which again vary from one person to the other.

Leadership Transformation
It is imperative that leaders go through a personal transformation process in order to bring about effective change within an organization. People, productivity, and profitability are the tools that make an organization successful. Through personal transformation, you will understand that you can be wounded and still learn from your mistakes. You will learn how to forgive yourself and others. You will learn to deal with reality while being comfortable with changes. Most importantly, you will create and motivate movement, as well as positive changes not only in yourself, but also in the people around you, and in your environment.

Lesson #5: “It's who you are as an organization that makes everything possible.”
If it is who you are as an organization that makes everything possible, then it is who you are as a leader that makes the organization what it is. Wrigley Jr.’s organization was a strong one because he was an even stronger leader. It was several of his key personal characteristics that made the organization reach the heights it did under his leadership.

IS YOUR BUSINESS PUTTING YOUR ASSETS AT RISK? BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS: THE SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP
One of the first decisions a startup business owner makes is which organization form to choose. This is an important decision as it affects personal liability, income tax, and administrative costs. In this article, we discuss the sole proprietorship, arguably the easiest and most common form of business organization. The sole proprietorship has distinct advantages and disadvantages that should be understood before adopting this business form. If you are risk averse and don't want to lose your retirement savings, your cars, or your personal home, you need to read on.
Empowerment – The Rewards are Greater Than the Risk
Employees must take ownership in the success of the organization. This means they must become part of the strategy employed by the company. Acknowledge their presence and contributions, and praise them at every opportunity. But, be sincere. Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, had a favorite method of sending personal handwritten notes to employees who demonstrated some form of success. This is an employee issue that cannot be emphasized enough. Employees want to know how they are doing and they want to be held accountable. Winning organizations continuously build leaders at every level in their organization. Leaders, who actively attempt to mentor, coach and build other leaders gain respect throughout the organization and transfer knowledge, ideas, values and an attitude about success.
4 Commitments That Can Impact Your Success
Have you ever made a commitment to yourself or someone and for whatever reason, didn’t follow through? There are numerous definitions for the word “commitment.” The most basic definition is an “act of voluntarily taking on and fulfilling obligations”. This is further specified as a “personal” commitment, as opposed to a professional or organizational commitment. The voluntary nature of a personal commitment is what makes it so personal. However, this does not mean that a commitment has to relate only to personal interests, such as human relationships or core beliefs. Any objective can be approached with a personal commitment. A commitment can be given to any number of projects and causes, including an organization, a team, a faith group, or to another person.
Customer Complaints - Who Gathers Your Intelligence?
Complaints are a valuable asset to any organization, once you can ensure that your people are willing to play. And to get them with you, they need to know that it's not personal...
Personal Mastery And Organizational Performance
Personal mastery is not something you can accomplish overnight. It is not just going beyond what you can do with your skills and talents. Personal mastery is how you understand and direct your life. For an organization to succeed, each person member of the organization has to be part of the organization purpose and make it their own personal purpose.

Change Management Can Lead to Rigidity and Resistance to Change
Beware of formal organization improvement or "change management" (an oxymoron) plans. Like strategic plans, organization improvement or change management plans can reduce an organization's effectiveness. They can lead to rigidity, bureaucracy, and resistance to change. This sounds like an argument against planning. It's not. We have found that constant and ongoing personal, team, and organization improvement planning is vital. But too many "change management" and improvement plans are built on the same faulty premise as strategic planning - that there is a right path, which can be determined in advance and then implemented. We often hear managers declare that they have the right strategic or improvement plan, but the reason things aren't going according to plan is because of "execution problems." This is a deadly assumption.
Get Your Mechanics Adjusted
Whether you own a business, or work as a leader in an organization, or simply make your living through investing (nearly all of my clients fit into one of those categories), you need to take personal responsibility for your own vitality. Your mission (possibly even the life of your company) depends on your personal vitality and energy. By the way: so does your own happy life....
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