Are you a frustrated leader? Are you frustrated with your employees, with your business, with your life? Are you afraid of being left behind in this booming economy? Do you wish your employees would come to work each day with enthusiasm, excitement, and passion rather than just “clocking in and clocking out”? Do you want to grow your business? Do you want to achieve successful results that (Continue)
Leadership
Growth Doesn’t Have to Frustrate Your Employees: This CEO Still Keeps Up With Their Birthdays (& Ensures They Get Their Favorite Cookies)
When your company is experiencing tremendous growth, you often wonder how you’ll sustain your current workforce and keep your employees engaged. Brian Stern has managed to not only sustain his employees, but actively engage them, give them ownership, and help their personal development. In less than ten years, their company has grown from nothing to four subsidiaries in multiple cities across (Continue)
Your Team is Not Your Problem
Have you ever looked in the mirror and thought, “I want someone to come in and ‘fix’ my people?” Take another serious look in the mirror at yourself to raise your self-awareness. Can I suggest that your people are merely a reflection of you? The Truth Would you give me permission to speak truth to you? Fellow leader, you are the one who needs to be (Continue)
Change Your Leadership, Change Your Life
Do you ever feel like “you are up to your neck in alligators”? Do you spend all day dealing with all the worries that are threatening to pull you (and your business) under? If you are open for change, please take our FREE 5-minute ON&IN Leadership Assessment <here>. I’ll never forget the day that my dad unexpectedly died. I was a recent university graduate, and the news hit me like (Continue)
Prioritizing “We” Before “I”
Leaders lead. It’s a simple truth, but one that can be hard to pin down pragmatically. When your business is growing, what’s the best way to execute your objectives as a leader in a way that ensures all your employees’ benefit? Fortunately, we recently got to sit down with James Frank—the CEO of Sharp Iron and Transland, as well as a representative in the Texas House of Representatives—on (Continue)
The Characteristics of Great Leadership in the Workplace
What makes a good leader? A delegator? An inspirer? A strong force on the front lines? It can be argued that a good leader consists of all of those things. But how should leadership in the workplace be encouraged and developed? In a recent conversation with Bob Payton, President and CEO of Dental Planet, Bob gives insight into what good leadership in the workplace looks like. Bob (Continue)
Here’s How to Grow Your Business
Many years ago, a friend told me about a seminar that he had attended. Each seminar participant received a cap with the word ON on the front of the cap and the word IN on the back of the cap. They were asked at the start of the seminar to wear the cap backward - showing the IN above his or her face. Each person could not turn around the cap with the ON above his or her face until they (Continue)
The Leadership Parallels Between Nonprofit & For-Profit Organizations
Leadership is not one size fits all. In fact, many people have their unique style. Whether you are leading a nonprofit or for-profit organization, under it all, the same parallels remain. I had a chance to sit down with an old friend Ray Klinginsmith, and chat about the leadership parallels that are experienced whether you are in a nonprofit or for-profit organization. Universal (Continue)
Five Habits of Personal Growth
A few years ago, I took my oldest grandson to a traditional circus show passing through our hometown. We had such a great time. It reminded me when I was a little boy, and my dad would take me to the circus. I have such fond memories of those days that when our three boys were young, I took them as well. I have always been amazed by the overwhelming size and raw power of the elephants. How (Continue)
Serve First, Lead Second
Recently, I ate breakfast at Chick-fil-A. The food was delicious, and their uncommon and consistent customer service was excellent as usual. I bet you've eaten at a Chick-fil-A, and can almost guarantee you have had the same experience that exceeds expectations. In my company, we called this a Triple-EEE experience. Did you know that the company generates more revenue per restaurant than (Continue)