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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?

Words Can Make A Difference
As a youngster I heard a little rhyme which said, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." That's untrue. Words can give us hope and encouragement, or they can break our spirits and dash our hopes.

Great Leaders Help People Assume Responsibility
“The price of greatness is responsibility.” - Winston Churchill
Making the EXCEPTIONAL Normal Part 3 - Employee Perspective
Now that you have a sense for what the Making the EXCEPTIONAL Normal system can do for you and your company. Let's see how employees feel about it.
I need a hero!
Flexible working needs great leaders, this article looks at what a great leader should be.
The Power of a Quotation
Last month I shared some of my favorite quotations from The Nature of Excellence gift book and asked you to share some of your personal favorites and you sure did! There were so many of them, I could not include them all. I did want to share a sampling of some of YOUR favorite quotations. Some were home grown expressions, others were attributed to famous people in history and one was even found on the back of sugar packet! Enjoy

May I Quote You?
As an author, the question, May I quote you? is a humbling request and a great compliment. For anyone who is in search of excellence a good quote is fuel for our journey. Its amazing how a short, simple quotation can quickly provide perspective, inspiration, comfort, motivation or insight. What a wonderful return for our invested time - take 10 seconds each morning to read a new quote and our day, maybe even our world, is changed. I wanted to share a few of my favorites which can also be found in the new coffee table gift book, The Nature of Excellence Its hard to beat a person who never gives up. - Babe Ruth

How to Find Direction
The Success Attitude formula makes achieving your Core Desires simple. The Success Attitude formula shows you how to unlock and open the door of opportunity. Success Attitude = (Core Desires + Direction) X Proper Action + Persistence Still, a Core Desire by itself won't get you where you want to go. If you live in California and want to drive to Washington, D.C., you may have a great desire, but you still need direction.
Havens From Hypocrisy
Many wonder why the late British actor, author, and raconteur David Niven was never knighted. After all, many show business people of far less distinction got their Ks indeed, these days it seems every so-called celebrity gets one if he lives long enough.
Who's Your Hero and What Would They Do?
What can you learn from the people you admire. What do they have in their life that will help yourself in yours?
Optimism: the Key to Living Longer & Happier
People who are successful in life measure high on assessments of optimistic attitudes. It would be easy to presume they are optimistic because they are successful, but there is enough research to show that the optimism comes first.

Who Is Likely To Succeed In Business?
I am in a privileged position in the work I do. I come across people at all stages of their business lives and so have a good awareness of which people will succeed, or not. I am surprised regularly by people about to start a business. When we sit down to discuss their plans, I find out they don't have any! They have a vague dream about running their own business and a few ideas to try to get them going but what about in 3 months time, 6 months, 12 months or even longer down the line? No idea! We will see how it goes!
Effective Leadership
This article covers basic leadership principles that can be applied on a daily basis to help us become better leaders and not so much managers.

Attention Deficit Disorder ADD
AEA/ADD people can and do perform remarkable things, when they understand their advantages and utilize them, and understand the drawbacks and overcome them.
In Praise of Passion: Sellings Secret Weapon
The stereotype many people have of salespeople is of an amoral hired gun. A sharp-suited, sharp-talking huckster who doesnt care what hes peddling as long as it brings in the money. But in reality, the opposite is true of all truly successful salespeople: they have a real passion and belief in the products and services they sell. This article explores the importance of passion - and how to incubate it in your sales team.
11 Speaking Tips
A conversation, a sales meeting, a board meeting, an interview, a courtroom case... all are special situations which require you to communicate clearly, drive the action and create the result you want. You can learn skills to engineer the outcome, make the most of your opportunities, gain respect, and advance your career. Here are eleven tips to practice that will help you feel powerful and authentic, and will help you be perceived as a person of authority and trust:

DEALING WITH FAILURE
Our greatest glory is not in ever falling, but in rising every time we fall. Any failure seems so total, later on you realise you can have another go.

Leadership Responsibility
The degree to which you lead your organization or team to success lies in your hands. Your ability to lead both yourself and others will enhance the quality of your work as well as your life. The quality of your leadership not only determines your future, it determines the future of your organization and the lives of all those who follow you.
Keep it Short
We discuss the importance of brevity in writing.

Persistence The Key To Success
It takes more than good looks, "smarts", contacts and a great idea to be a business success, it takes persistence.
Churchill on Clear Language
Winston Churchill, universally acknowledged as a champion of motivational speech, was an early proponent of Clear Language.

Fail More Often
I often like to take an extreme position on topics to stimulate helpful discussions where we share various points of view. The title of this article sounds ridiculous. We all would rather have success than failure in anything we do. My point in this article is whether we need to put a higher value on failures than we typically do.
DRMPirates Helped in Ways They Didnt Plan
Digital Rights Management (DRM) has been the rallying cry for the motion picture industry for years. Contending they are losing billions of revenue each year they have struck out against individual consumers. The latest blast of hackers may have done the marketplace and consumers a big favor.
Decisiveness
Napoleon Bonaparte said, Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. Strong and successful entrepreneurs make decisions fast and stick to them. Heres some keys to making decisive resolutions today.
Mastering Stage Fright
When you are presenting your product or service to a group of customers, do you get stage fright?

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How to Achieve Goals through Thick and Thin
Winston Churchill reputedly kept the following aphorism on the wall above his desk: "Never, ever, ever, ever, ever give up." Great leaders have an uncanny ability to achieve their goals no matter what the obstacles and the situation. This level of adaptability depends on a few principles and techniques, which if adhered to through thick and thin, will contribute greatly to your success. This article provides a listing of techniques you can use right away to become a more effective leader in adversity.
Email Marketing for Complex Sales Cycles by Winton Churchill
Direct mail and email marketing have gotten a bad rap for many years. But, when the email marketing is executed properly, the results can be fantastic. That is the sort of email marketing that Winton Churchill talks about in this book. Its not just a simple email being sent from time to time, but it is an email system that gets definite and positive sales results for your business.

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?

Save Money Next Time You Promote or Hire That New Exec
According to Michael S. Melbinger, Partner at Winston & Strawn, LLP and a leading authority on executive compensation world-wide, mentoring and coaching for newly-promoted managers and/or newly-hired executives is gaining in importance, even in this economy. Why? One of the reasons is companies can no longer afford the costs incurred from poor management/executive performance. It costs too much to get them, let alone get them productive quickly. In this economy, every dollar counts.

Free Market Capitalism Is The Worst Economic System
Sir Winston Churchill famously quipped: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." With apologies to Mr. Churchill, I would suggest a modernization of that quote based on today's political/economic environment in the United States. You hear a lot about the "failure of capitalism," and how bad it is compared with the socialist Utopia long sought by progressives; but in reality, free-market capitalism far outpaces any other economic system.

Great Leaders Help People Assume Responsibility
“The price of greatness is responsibility.” - Winston Churchill
Leadership with a Small "L"
There have been only a few great leaders in our lifetime. Leaders like Reagan, Churchill, Disney, and Welch to mention a few. They could never have risen to the hieghts they did without the many small "L" leaders that backed them up. It is from the pool of small "L" leaders that the great leaders emerge. Learn how to grow leaders from seed.

Behavioural Intelligence - Learning From World Leaders' Speech Secrets
If you want people to be engaged with your speech, presentation or written text you need to take some lessons from the orators, politicians and world leaders and build them into your material. Look at any great speech in recent history, whether its from Winston Churchill or Bill Clinton, Martin Luther King or Margaret Thatcher, Barack Obama or Nelson Mandela youll find some or all of the following tools of influence, persuasion and engagement.
Question of the Day: What will you do with your failure?
"Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
Churchill on Clear Language
Winston Churchill, universally acknowledged as a champion of motivational speech, was an early proponent of Clear Language.

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