Blaise Pascal, the 17th century French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, inventor, and theologian once opined; “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” This is a powerful statement coming from a man who lived in the 1600’s! This was before any sort of modern technology that we take for […]

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Most people in today’s business world would agree that Ram Charan is an icon. He has written a number of best-selling business books, runs a consulting company out of Dallas, and has consulted with many of the largest companies globally. So, when Charan describes tools that he uses to get organizational alignment, we should all […]

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Recently, I was a guest on “Ideas and Stuff”, a Calgary based podcast (episode 50). One of the questions they provided in advance for me to think about and prepare for was; “If you could go back to the day you started your business/career, what would you tell yourself?” As it turns out, we had […]

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How many times have you been distracted from your work on important activities and tasks by random ideas and thoughts? These can be super-valuable ideas that you don’t want to lose but you also don’t want to be distracted from the task at hand! Robert Rodriguez (in Tribe of Mentors) calls these disruptive, yet potentially […]

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Most of us are totally unaware of how much our lack of focus impacts our lives and our businesses yet the impact is huge! Among many things, lack of focus: Damages relationships Results in missing sales opportunities Increases our cost of doing business Derails us from our vision Impacts our ability to achieve goals Results […]

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