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Connected, Aware, and Relevant
My December 31, 2012 social media post drew a lot of likes and one great question.
Here is the post: We shouldn’t fear getting old. We should fear becoming disconnected, unaware, and irrelevant.
The response from friends, fans, and followers was great because of the age span represented. I heard from people in their twenties and people in their sixties.
Here’s the great question I received: How do you change your mindset to keep from becoming disconnected, unaware, and irrelevant? Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Add value, Business Growth, Business Strategy, Communication, Decision Making, Doing, Execution, Growing your business, Innovation, Leader, Leadership, New Year's Resolutions, Performance Improvement, Personal Development, Results, Trust, Uncategorized
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Risky is the New Safe
he Great Depression created the environment for companies such as Texas Instruments and Hewlett-Packard. Microsoft, Genetech, and Apple were all founded in the oil shock and stock market downturn of 1973 to 1976. And, the legendary brands of the next fifty years, I believe, will be created in the crucible of today’s challenges.
The same principle applies to personal wealth, and that is why you must read Risky is the New Safe by Randy Gage. Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Add value, Business Strategy, Corporate Culture, Decision Making, Doing, Execution, Growing your business, Innovation, Leader, Leadership, Personal Development, Results, Trust
Tagged Accountability, add value, business competitiveness, Business growth, Business Strategy, corporate culture, Decision Making, Exceptional effort, Execution, Hard work, Important Questions, innovation, leadership, Leading in crisis, Randy Gage, Randy Pennington, results, Results Rule, Vision
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Where Are You Running?
Most of the people I speak with today describe their life as running as fast and far as they can … and then being asked to run even faster and farther.
One of the participants in a leadership boot camp I’m conducting for a client asked for help with time management. It turns out that she didn’t really need time management tips at all. She keeps a calendar with priorities, and she knows all of the time management techniques she needs to be successful. In fact, this leader is widely considered to be very effective by her colleagues.
The problem that we face isn’t time management. It is focus and resource allocation to be more effective. Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Add value, Business Growth, Business Strategy, Decision Making, Doing, Execution, Innovation, Leader, Leadership, Performance Improvement, Personal Development, Results, Stupid Decisions, Uncategorized
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Five Common Myths About Time Management
In this era of economic uncertainty and stretched-thin corporate resources, many workers feel the need to practically chain themselves to their desks in order to maximize their productivity and thereby prove their worth. No one really likes the idea, but these days, how can you get everything done in less than sixty hours a week?
In her new book, What to Do When There’s Too Much to Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 Minutes a Day, Laura Stack says the key is to work less to achieve greater success. She turns time management on its head and debunks the idea that you have to run yourself ragged to be more productive. Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Business Strategy, Corporate Culture, Doing, Execution, Growing your business, Leader, Leadership, Leadership Development, Performance Improvement, Personal Development, Randy Pennington, Results, Uncategorized
Tagged Accountability, business competitiveness, Business Strategy, corporate culture, Decision Making, Exceptional effort, Excuses, Execution, Hard work, increasing revenue, Laura Stack, leadership, management, Randy Pennington, Results Rule, Time Management
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Oh S**T! They’re Serious!
There is a moment of truth in every organizational change that determines if the effort has a chance of succeeding or is destined to fail. It is the point where good intention is transformed into focused action. It when everyone looks at each other and says, “Oh, S**T! They’re Serious!” Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Business Growth, Business Strategy, Corporate Culture, Doing, Ethics, Execution, Growing your business, Integrity, Leader, Leadership, Leadership Development, Performance Improvement, Personal Development, Randy Pennington, Results, Trust
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It’s the Culture, Stupid!
What separates the marketplace heroes in every industry from the has-beens and wanna-bes?
It can’t be just products, services, or price. Your competitors don’t hire all geniuses and leave you with the dunces. Their computer systems, compensation, and operational processes are not dramatically better than yours. When they discuss strategy, the words on their flip charts are not significantly more insightful than yours.
The difference is an intangible. It is a culture where every person at every level is focused on and committed to delivering results that are critical for success. Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Add value, Business Growth, Business Strategy, Corporate Culture, Decision Making, Doing, Execution, Growing your business, Innovation, Leader, Leadership, Leadership Development, Mistakes, Performance Improvement, Personal Development, Randy Pennington, Results, Stupid Decisions, Trust
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Heeding Wisdom – A Guest Blog from Mark Sanborn
Remember the definition of insanity: Doing what you have always done and expecting to get different results?
That truth has never been more relevant than today, and yet we are all guilty of failing to heed a piece of wisdom that would help us deliver amazing results.
Mark Sanborn has written an excellent new book titled Up, Down, or Sideways. In it, he devotes a chapter to what prevents us from doing what needs to be done to achieve results. I asked him to share his key observations in this this blog.
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Posted in Accountability, Add value, Business Strategy, Decision Making, Doing, Execution, Growing your business, Leader, Leadership, Leadership Development, Performance Improvement, Personal Development, Randy Pennington, Results
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Milestones & Goals
Seventeen days can make a tremendous difference.
The date was May 25, 2011. The Dallas Mavericks became the National Basketball Association’s Western Conference Champions for only the second time in its thirty-one year history. The 17,000-plus fans were anxious for a celebration. The team held up the trophy, smiled, posed for the obligatory photo-op, and then exited the arena – leaving ESPN reporter Doris Burke looking for someone to interview. Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Business Strategy, Corporate Culture, Decision Making, Doing, Execution, Growing your business, Innovation, Leader, Leadership, Leadership Development, Performance Improvement, Personal Development, Randy Pennington, Results, Trust
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A Love Affair With Results
The edge is a deep passion for competing, contributing, and yes, winning. It’s being dissatisfied with the status quo and never resting on your laurels. It is caring so much that you work your tail off to deliver better results tomorrow than you did today. Passion for delivering results drives learning and embracing change as a way of life. It’s an attitude not a skill.
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Posted in Add value, Business Growth, Corporate Culture, Doing, Execution, Growing your business, Innovation, Integrity, Leadership, Randy Pennington, Results, Trust
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Dreaming and Doing
We get the leaders we deserve. We will get better leaders when we select those who can both dream and do. Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Culture, Doing, Dreaming, Execution, Innovation, Leadership, Performance Improvement, Randy Pennington, Results
Tagged Accountability, business competitiveness, corporate culture, Execution, leadership, management, Randy Pennington, Results Rule, Vision
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