Christmas: For Making Biz Connections
Ho Ho Ho, it’s Christmas time. May your days be merry and bright, and may all your business connections be tight. Christmas is really the most democratic of holidays because everyone is welcome and encouraged to celebrate its real purpose. That’s why I invite you to forget about the religious connotations the coming days have [...]
Failure to Adapt Kills 2 Many Companies
When everything from wealth to glory is on the line, athletes aren’t the only ones who freeze, choke or come up short. But in business, that shouldn’t and doesn’t have to be ‘just the way it is’. It’s entirely normal, if you’re normal, that to some extent for some period of time your brain’s higher-level [...]
Ego & The High Cost of Cheating
Tiger Woods’ GiNORMOUS public flame-out this past week due to marital “transgressions” should serve as a stark warning to everyone about the extreme social ignominy risk that cheaters of all kinds all run as do those who can’t or don’t want to control the egos. Tiger has become as clear a case of ‘the bigger [...]
Sales Webinar: ‘An Inconvenient Truce’
On Tuesday December 15th at 1:00 pm Eastern, Tibor Shanto of Renbor Sales Solutions is presenting another in the series his Top Sales Experts Masterclasses of 2009, and you can hear what he has to say for nothing out of pocket with my compliments. “It is time to move talk beyond the current limits of [...]
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