Finish What You Started Reflection

This week’s tool and video build on this idea of finishing what you start. In the video, I share a bit more about the concept. Watch yourself or share it with others. The tool provides you with a decision tree you can follow to finish strong. I encourage you to use the tool for lingering…

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6 Steps to Meet Unspoken Customer Needs

Going to the market week after week, I’ve become familiar with many of the vendors, their products, and how they display the goods they sell. It’s interesting how they adjust their approach throughout the summer. They move items around, refine what they say to customers, and create new offerings.  For example, a few weeks ago,…

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Worksheet: 2 Biggest Assets

As a leader, one of the biggest challenges you have is that there are so many things to do, opportunities to tackle, and problems to fix. It can be overwhelming. But the reality is that your success is not defined by trying to do everything. Your success often stems from tackling a few critical things.…

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Worksheet: Scale, Systematize, and Sustain Success

You may not be running a restaurant or a fashion house, but your successes are also subject to the same challenge. If the results are a function of one player or leader, it will be nearly impossible to scale, systematize, and sustain success. This week’s tool presents one key question and shares six ingredients for…

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Worksheet: Reform, Perform, Transform

I can tell you that having led countless priority-setting sessions with my team and with my clients, these sessions are well worth the effort when done right. The clarity derived from determining a team’s priorities generates excitement, commitment, and focus. It can be a much-needed morale boost and take a team from a laundry list…

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Episode 128: Up your confidence with author and performance coach Dr. Nate Zinsser

Nate Zinsser is the director of West Point’s Performance Psychology Program, the nation’s gold standard curriculum for teaching and training the mental skills that underlie excellence in any human performance – confidence despite setbacks, concentration despite distractions, and composure under pressure. He is the author of The Confident Mind and has worked with numerous Olympic…

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