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She’ll Be Right Mate

July 28, 2015

“Make a customer, not a sale.” Katherine Barchetti The good old Aussie assumption ‘She’ll be right mate’ certainly doesn’t apply to client service. And if you think that your long term, loyal client will ‘be right’, you’re wrong! For example, a client of mine was sharing a story with me where they had a regular […]

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The Avoidance Game

July 28, 2015

“Our biggest problems arise from the avoidance of smaller ones.” ~ Jeremy Caulfield You know you have to do it. You know you need to do it. You know it can’t go on any longer but you just can’t do it. In fact, you can’t be bothered. The lazy employee, the employee who continually steps […]

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Proud of Busyness.

July 28, 2015

“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.” ~ Thomas Edison Being busy is a good thing. That’s what we’re […]

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Network For Net Worth.

July 21, 2015

“The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work.” Robert Kiyosaki Networking is one of the most powerful business growth tools if done the right way. You may have heard of the saying that ‘networking is your net worth’ and this proves to be true especially in the […]

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It’s Murder on the Dance floor.

July 14, 2015

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” ~ Jim Rohn There’s a song by Sophie Ellis Bextor; ‘Murder on the Dance Floor’ with a catchy tune. It starts “There’s murder on the dance floor, but you better not kill the groove…” Sadly, as […]

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What’s Really Important?

July 07, 2015

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.” ~ John Wayne As leaders all too often we can be consumed by business, our career, team and our own self-importance […]

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Why Leadership Is Critical To Our Future Generations.

June 30, 2015

“It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.” ~ Christine Gregoire The world has gone freakin’ mad. Within a couple of days last week, we had mass murders, a riot and a […]

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The Ageless Thought Leader.

May 01, 2015

“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” George Orwell For the first time in history we have four generations in business. People are now healthier, living longer and retiring later. The generations of Baby Boomer, Gen X, Y […]

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Shift Your Focus From Hours to Output

May 01, 2015

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker Back when I was in the corporate world the amount of hours you put in each day was often recognized as dedication and high performance. When in fact, it was really poor time management and organizational skills. […]

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The Blind Man Cant See.

November 18, 2014

“A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness isn’t being a bully. It’s having a backbone.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki Have you ever had the situation where people just don’t get it? No matter how hard you try and explain it, try and get […]

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Is Leadership Too Hard?

November 17, 2014

All eyes were on the world’s top leaders last weekend. None more so than Barack Obama, simply due to his incredible influence and charisma. He has rock star qualities and you can’t help but be drawn to him, and that to me is a sign of a great leader. You may be drawn to him […]

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Retire Early and Enjoy the Good Life.

October 08, 2014

Written by Jenny Brown – JBS Financial Strategists. If I told you to imagine your retirement, what would it look like? The time and money to travel the world, the ability to spend more time with family, restoring that old 1960 Shelby GT500 or maybe you just want to stop and smell the roses. Now […]

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Bad Bosses

October 06, 2014

“I’m not the boss because I’m always right. I’m always right because I am the boss.” ~ Unknown We’ve all had them. A bad boss! I have seen the good, the bad and the plain ugly of leadership. And lots of the ugly! Looking back, some of the instances I have seen, it does make […]

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The Sport With No Winners.

September 29, 2014

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” ~ Aristotle Over the generations, and certainly now in our technological time, some of us have become really, really good at being critics. It’s really easy to point out what people are doing wrong, fashion faux pas, poor public speaking and poor performance. We’ve practically made […]

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The Leadership Footprint.

September 29, 2014

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus”. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr The leadership evolution is an interesting one. Leadership styles have evolved as more research is conducted; more insight is gained into what works and what doesn’t, as people get savvier and more intelligent and as times […]

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Flying Under The Radar

September 24, 2014

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” ~ Michelangelo We are all guilty of flying under the radar at some stage of our lives. Many of us are taught this at an early age. […]

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To Change Your Outcome.

September 24, 2014

“To effectively communicate, we must realise that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.” ~ Tony Robbins Last weeks blog “Has Technology Killed Leadership” received quite a lot of feedback. I wasn’t surprised that it was mostly in […]

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Has Technology Killed Leadership?

September 14, 2014

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” Theodore Roosevelt Some of us have an insatiable hunger for technology. As soon as new iPhone’s are released there are advanced orders and people queuing at the Apple stores from about 3am in the morning prior to […]

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Be Brave and Do It!

September 08, 2014

“Marketing used to be about what you say. Now, marketing is what you do. What you make. How you act. The choices you make when you are sure no one is looking.” ~ Seth Godin Seth has been an inspiration and a mentor to me for many years. I love the way he thinks. I […]