Innovative Business Leadership
Simply having constraints can improve your creativity, challenge you to do your best. In the case of an automatic camera, removing the automation serves to sharpen your focus on getting the picture right.
What constraints do you set before yourself? Which constraints in your life, perhaps placed there with intent, make your life more colorful, more rewarding as a result?
Moments, free of distraction, allow our minds to wander freely. The tortoise part of our brain crawls out of its shell. Unfortunately, even when we think we are thinking freely and without constraints, we are not.
My most creative moments come when there is great peace around me. If writing is the focus, my favorite times are…
A never-ending question: What are your thoughts about Quality vs. Quantity of Followers? Should I focus on quality, or number of Twitter, Facebook, Google+, or other network followers?
In a word: Don’t.
In the past three years, I have spoken with a number of audiences. And I have found the experience to not only be rewarding but surprisingly enjoyable.
15 Lessons Learned, for you.
The book is a quick, light read, that is enjoyable. Most of us have ‘been there’ at some point. Not as happy as we could be, not as excited, perhaps dreading going to work. We’ve heard many of the things the book discusses, but being reminded (and in a fresh format) can be very useful.
Apple, Starbucks, Dell, and others are frequently lauded for their incredible successes. Yet each was on the verge of becoming failures…at points after their initial successes. Why?
Is it just Leadership? Or, was it Process-based?
Book review, for leaders who are *struggling to steady their leadership compass; *wonder why their teams do not seem to trust them; *or are looking for ways to help their teams share their values.
The quality you—elect—to provide your customer speaks to the nature of—relationship—you plan to have with that customer.
What businesses need to get back to is understanding that the quality of interaction forms the bedrock upon which future relationships are formed. Treat your customers as a commodity, they’ll treat you the same.
Now we know, that motorcyclists, like Leaders, are different people. Why is that? In short, what studies repeatedly show is, what we do more of, we get better at.
Motorcycling is healthy for you. Simply thinking about it stimulates your brain.
Why People Fail is actually a twist on words. It could just as easily been titled along the lines of How to Be Successful. Siimon provides an easily read book that highlights 16 key points underlying how people set themselves up to fail.
Step by step, Siimon discusses ways readers can incrementally work to improve themselves, from self-image, through proper health and exercise, to rituals and persistence…to name a few.
