June 13, 2017
How to Make Successful Decisions
It’s not that successful people have better luck when it comes to making decisions, but rather that they apply a differ criteria in getting there, different from our own. Check it out here.
Articles for category: Drive
May 30, 2017
Sharing your Work
I wrote a LinkedIn article about a month ago and then decided to share it across a number of groups – groups that had 70,000+ members associated to them. As I wrote some clever summary I worried about how it would be perceived, what would people think? Would they love it? Would they hate it? Would they tear it apart? I could feel my brow furrowing and sweat starting to form as I clicked “Post”. And then I waited… Waited… Still waiting… Nothing happened, a few people liked it, but that was about it. No viral sensation, no interviews, no public
May 18, 2017
Who Owns the Integration?
A while ago, I had a problem integrating the systems of two vendors together – both were advertised as being able to do such (which is why I went with them). After support calls on both sides, each side believed it was the other vendor’s problem and not theirs. In a connected economy where the bar upon dependency, trust and connection are raised higher than they ever have been here I was trying to get two partners who built a solution together to help me troubleshoot the system and work together. Neither wanted to. When the road became rough, we fell back to the
May 17, 2017
Finding your Inner Sales
The days of having someone “do the sales” for you are over, we are all sales people now. Selling our products. Selling our services. Selling our ideas. Selling our innovation. Selling our brand. Selling our skills. In this new market economy, we are all salespeople, selling our ideas to our manager, selling your skills to a future employer, selling your products to a neighbour down the street and the list will go on. The difference today vs yesterday is the word “selling” – it’s not all for money and margins, it’s for recognition, self-confidence, quality of delivery, bonus features, brand
May 11, 2017
Go For A Walk
Or Run. Or workout. Or shoot some hoops. Take in that free karate session. Lace up your skates and go for that public skate. Weed the garden. Build a table. Go jump in a lake. Go fly a kite. Go camping. Just do something, anything, that serves to give you a break from the everything and everyday that you are going through and lets you rest, relax and refocus so when you come back you are twice as better as before. And if you’re leading a team, you should be encouraging your team to do the exact same thing. Make it