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Lighten Up / Tighten Up
As I was writing my previous post about The Constipation of Scale I got an email from a co-investor talking about a CEO / CTO conflict. It had an interesting phrase in it that I realized applies to many CEO / CTO relationships – “CEO needs to lighten up and CTO needs to tighten up.”

Kick-Start Your Priority Focus
At a conference earlier this year, I was handed a copy of Les Hewitt's "Power of Focus" workbook, an awesome little spiral bound book that contains dozens of exercises to help individuals FOCUS in on goals, and not just any goals, but the right ones. Hewitt is the co-author with Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen of The Power of Focus (more info at thepoweroffocus.ca).
Turn Grouchy Spiral to Happiness and Joy
Have you ever noticed how negative energies feed off each other? If that is true, then it must be true too that positive energies can do the same. I am reminded of a friend who enjoys blowing kisses to random strangers in other cars while stopped at red lights. She does it just to see the surprise and smiles on the recipients' faces. It takes them out of their own head, to share a moment with a "neighbor." It makes me laugh just thinking of her doing it, and the reaction that must follow....
The 7 Deadliest Financial Mistakes Self Employed Make Coming Out of Recession
For many of my self employed clients, the sales cycle is already on an upswing. Recovery recession has turned from a deep desire to a slow spiral of reality. Now comes regroup, refocus and rebuild. As you build plans for the rest of this year and into next, avoid these deadly financial mistakes that may kill your business during the next recession. Yes, there will be a next recession; they’re a normal.

Watch who you let near your mind
With the Sub-prime market issue in the US and its effects on countries and the world’s stock markets featuring as a daily major news item at present who can blame people for getting a bit nervous and worried about the future. You can see it with the panic selling of shares and so forth. However if we let this and other issues get to us and allow ourselves to blow things out of all proportion we can, in turn, create our own demise. Whilst it is critical for business owners and sales people to keep abreast of market changes and challenges we can let real and, more often than not, perceived threats get the better of us.
International Roaming
“This method of doing business can be very profitable but the usage charges of the device can eat into these profits quickly.”

The Cycle For Success
The cycle for success or the cycle for failure – YOU decide. I experienced something interesting today and I felt that I would spread this information. This is a phenomenon that the general masses are usually stuck in but unfortunately do not know that they are in.
The Power of Letting Go
By moving through and letting go of our fears, we can envision and create the life that we truly want for ourselves. By contrast, when we let our preconceived notions about ourselves and our fears take control, we can be paralyzed by them
Financial Spiral
“Financial Spiral” and how most people don’t realize what they can do to get out of it, because they just don’t want too, or they are to afraid to do it. This video explains how it happened and what he has done to get out of it by using an amazing online marketing system that is turning is life around.

Has Your Business Budget Crossed a Line?
Do you know the one factor that is automatically tied to both your business and personal life, no matter what you do? Do you know how to control this factor, and use it to drive your business to unheard of success?
Taking Stock of What's Happening
There's a lot going on these days. People are stressed, no two ways about it. I'm observing a 'tired' group of executives whose staff are looking to them to 'fix' things. Well, no one has a magic wand, or... does everyone have a magic wand?

Trade Declining Sales for a Competitive Advantage
Utilizing your suppliers declining sales to leverage your own sales.
Franchise Sales in the First Year
Franchisors should carefully consider how and where they are going to sell franchises in the first year that they offer franchises.
Manage Fear of Failure
Clues from past sucesses can help up beat fear of failure.
Leadership Characteristics – Managing With Feeling
Many business owners feel that they need to have “hard” leadership characteristics in order to get ahead or be successful. They believe that if they show any weakness or flexibility, that staff will “pounce” and take advantage of them. When you look inside their companies, you see unhappy people (both managers and staff), all tightly hanging onto what is right in their view and making sure they get what they are entitled to.

Holiday Craziness Leave No Time for Thankfulness?
We are quickly headed towards the hustle and bustle of “The Holiday Season”. With the holiday right around the corner and the to-do list mounting… how will YOU find time to be THANKFUL?

Turning Sales Slumps into Sales Jumps
Sales reluctance syndrome can strike a salesperson at any time during the selling process, anywhere and with anyone. Learn the seven top tips about moving forward from a lost sale and steering clear of creating a sales slump.
BEING GENTLE – LEARNING TO LOVE YOURSELF
I believe everyone reading this is capable of being more than they are now, do more than they do, and have more than they have. But too often people are enmeshed in the life they lead. They want to break free, but frequently they don’t. This article looks at the concept of being gentle with yourself (as opposed to beating yourself up over all the stuff you've not yet done) is a great way of improving the quality of your life and help you achieve more.
Sales Reluctance Is Not a Two-Letter Word Named No!
Sales reluctance syndrome can strike a salesperson at any time during the selling process, anywhere and with anyone. Learn about the top seven reluctance in networking thoughts and feelings, and how to get started on shattering them.

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Black Holes
Ever experienced a downward spiral? You know - one of those days or weeks or months when absolutely nothing went your way? A time when the odds stacked against you? When everything you touched fell apart? When you wondered if you would ever be able to prove yourself to the people with the power to propel you?
Rescuer, Victim or Persecutor?
In business, as in life, we are faced with a dangerous triangle, which is a downward spiral. Here’s the simple solution to this disempowering game.
Advance or Retreat
What is the best way to lead when times are tough? How do we turn a downward spiral in a depressed market into an opportunity?
Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Why change initiatives, whether they were intended to boost quality, efficiency, sales or profitability, or reverse business spiral usually only generate lukewarm results or fail.
Are You Successful? Yes or No? Which Life Are You Leading?
Which life do you lead? Do you consider your life to be constructive or would you describe it as destructive to you and all around you. Both result from a chain reaction, one leading to a downward spiral and the other leading to an upward spiral.

Freeing Ourselves From a Downward Spiral
Some people call them vicious circles or cycles. I prefer to think of them as downward spirals of life. I’m referring to those periods that we can all become trapped in like the whirlpool of water as it drains from the tub. If we're not careful and mindful these downward spirals can suck the life right out of us. They’re like the Spiral of Fulfillment in reverse. When we find ourselves trapped in such a downward spiral we life can look and feel pretty bleak. Here are a few simple and effective steps you can use to free yourself of such life draining periods.
Why Starting A Business Is Recession-Proof
The recession has made the economy spiral downwards, but on the other side, it has also amplified prospects elsewhere in other non-related industries. So the likelihood of doing well after starting a business is quite realistic.
E-Mail Tip #14 - Handling Over the Top People
Some e-mail exchanges go way overboard and spiral out of control. This paper contains a juicy example and the antidote to the problem.
Hope: Don't Leave Home Without It
With the unease caused by the Great Recession, it is easy to spiral into a negative state of mind and ignore the promising signs that the worst of the panic is past. Don't give up hope. This article provides 8 tips for inspiring yourself and others to have a positive outlook.
RIM...What's In It for Microsoft?
RIM continues a downward spiral. The company (and country) needs a savior that can act in the best interest of the employees, the technology, the shareholders. Microsoft is the most logical choice...here's why.
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