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Lesson #4: Learning by Doing is the Better Way
“[I] learned it by doing it,” says Kelleher, “and I was scared to death.”

Why Smart Companies Do Dumb Things
Not a day goes by when I don’t ask myself, “Why do smart companies do such dumb things?” We all know companies that cook the books and throw outrageous parties at one end of the spectrum to sell lousy products at the other. A sweeping answer is that companies are run by smart people, and smart people do dumb things as we’ve learned.
Little Things Make a Big Difference
There's an old saying that "by the mile it's a trial, and by the inch it's a cinch." The reason the saying is old is because it's good, it's valid. If it were not, it would be dead and buried. For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say "by choice" because I have never "accidentally" eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much. Every choice has an end result.
Increase Your Sales with Actionable Emails
I hate long emails. They take too long to read and typically include action items I just don’t have time for. No doubt you’ve experienced it, too. Your customers are no different and it’s impacting your ability to close sales.

How Progressive Companies Can Instil Work Life Balance Within Their Organisation
It just seems that companies have got the whole work life balance out of sync. For some reason you have designed it so that your career obligations (and time required at work) peak during the most important time of your young families life. Then when your children are grown up and have left the house you are then encouraged to reduce your workload and retire.Creating a healthier work life balance in the future,a fundamental shift in how you employ and assign roles and responsibilities in your organization will be required.

Sales Force Lessons from Gates, Crowley and Obama
This should happen a lot more often on the sales force. How often do customers become upset over the behavior of a salesperson, customer service rep, technician or even accounting? When controversy jeopardizes a good account, it's time for the president or CEO to reach out and mend fences between adversaries!
Recession Slump…Helping Employees During the Crunch
There’s no denying it. There are hiring freezes everywhere, and unemployment statistics increase daily. This recession slump is hitting America hard, and organizations everywhere are trying to stay afloat. In previous recessions, layoffs have been the number one solution to combat rising expenses in the face of lower revenues.

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Executive Coaching For The Whole Person - Your Key To Success Satisfaction
Executive coaching is used by many top entrepreneurs to sharpen their skills and increase their productivity. But the best of executive coaching includes a focus on your whole person - not just your business activities. Find out how an executive coach can release your potential to the next level when they include a whole person approach.
Develop Your Executive Presence
Individuals in an executive position should develop their executive presence (a person’s manner of carrying themselves) if they want to be more successful. Certain characteristics and behaviors are signs of executive presence and can be developed.
How to Succeed in Your Career and Life
As an executive coach, I’m often asked for my best thoughts on what it takes to become a career and life success. I always tell my executive coaching clients to think systematically, to break success down into some manageable components. This article is a bullet point summary of what I tell my executive coaching clients on how to become a career and life success. Put these points to use and you will succeed, just like my executive coaching clients.

How to Gain Access to that Executive You Simply Must See
To get in the door in new accounts at the executive level, you must first establish your value with the executive. There in lies the challenge.
The ROI of Executive Coaching
Executive coaching helps key individuals in the organization thrive not just survive. The executive coach helps executives focus and adjust to new organizational realities as they occur. The executive coach helps anchor the executive being coached to focus on… and achieve specific business/organizational outcomes…resulting in a good ROI.
It Gets Lonely at the Top
Being a President, CEO or the owner of a company can get lonely at times. This is true even if you are an excellent leader and have developed a top notch executive staff. Often times you face decisions, challenges or just thoughts that you can't even divulge to your most trusted employee. Some CEOs use executive coaches to help them during these times. I personally do some executive coaching. Often times coaching is just affirmation and validation of one's own thinking but it is important to have that outlet.
How to choose your executive coach -1
Executive Coaching centers around the learner on the job. An executive coach helps the learner in identifying key areas of focus and helps in developing an action plan. Executive Coaching deals with the person, the job challenges, and the skills needed. Therefore executive coaching is very effective in developing leadership skills. The question is how to select a good executive coach? The "How to choose your Executive Coach?" series deals with this crucial question.
Sales Proposal Executive Summaries: Don¡¦t ¡K Unless
Your proposal can make or break your sale. It can get you in to see the customer or keep you out. When you do include an Executive Summary in a proposal, it¡¦s the first thing most customers read. More importantly, it may be the only thing executives/key decision-makers read at all. Executive Summaries establish that all-important first impression. They can draw customers in ¡X or turn them away. Unfortunately, many Executive Summaries are neither a summary nor executive.

Developing Executive Presence - What Really Matters
I've found that the term executive presence can mean different things to different people. Asking penetrating questions to gain more clarity for both the client and executive coach is critical to the executive coaching process when coaching a leader to cultivate their executive presence.

Building Executive Presence - Storytelling for Professional Success
The term executive presence can mean different things to different people. Asking penetrating questions to gain more clarity for both the client and executive coach is critical to the executive coaching process when coaching a leader to improve their executive presence.

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