Episodes

Maximizing Profitability as You Grow Your Business Did you know that 60% of businesses fail in the first 5 years? That’s not all of those that survive the first 5 years, 60% will fail in the next 5 years. Not a recipe for success. The reason…lack of profitability. Profitability doesn’t have to be difficult. In fact, there are simple methods that lead to profitability. And businesses with the greatest profitability use these simple methods to sustain their profitability. What are they? And ho...

Shy By Design 12 Principles to Quietly Stand Out You may be one of those people who consider themselves “shy” making it difficult for you to stand out among the crowd of highly extroverted people. Or you simply may be someone who isn’t much of a talker, or in the spotlight type of person, where trying to stand out feels overwhelming. So how does someone still compete and stand out in a world where so many talkers and extroverts dominate the stage? You may believe it is not possible to be in...

Dreams NOT Goals to Build High Performing Teams What’s the first thing you think of when you read the word “dream”? Chances are, the first thing you thought of was something “fanciful” that isn’t real. Or perhaps you thought of something that you do when you sleep, but often do not remember. What if I were to suggest to you that dreaming actually works better than goal setting? You probably feel like I just committed heresy! But what if dreaming actually improved your team morale, created hi...

How to Build High-Performing Teams that Operates Like the Navy SEALs If you are in business and have a team, no matter how large or how small, we ultimately want a High-performing team. But have a high-performing team does not happen overnight. And it requires a kind of leadership that quite frankly is not so common in the work place. So, where do you look to find the best, high-performing teams? Perhaps one of the best places to look are the Navy SEALs. One of the elite forces of our milita...

Climbing the Mountain of Accountability is Not Going to be Easy Here is a fact that is never said about accountability… No one can hold anyone else accountable, you are only accountable to yourself. We all talk about the importance of accountability. We think if we put someone in charge of another person, we will somehow motivate the through accountability. But accountability must come from you. And we have to learn to climb the mountain of becoming more accountable to ourselves. In other wor...

Your Leadership Can Become Dull Like a Knife in Your Home… You Need Some Honing Steal to Sharpen it. Leadership is never something we can fully master. It is an elusive journey to keep growing and going. Many times as leaders, we can get into a rut in our leadership. We can get stagnant. For whatever reason, our leadership has become bland. Then there are those that we lead. Perhaps they have lost faith in our leadership ability. For whatever reason, the followers don’t have the same energy ...

How to Have Conversations that Really Change You and Your Business. Whether in life or business, relationships are important to our success. And relationships are built on our conversations. If our conversations are not authentic, trusting, safe, have commitment, and accountability, we will not build strong relationships. The fact is that we often take our conversations for granted. We would like to believe that we are communicating clearly, but our own biases actually keep us from being as p...

Taking a Break from Burn Out Work burn out is real. So often employers dismiss it and treat it as a weakness in the employee. But nothing could be further from the truth. Let me ask you this question, would you want to have a surgery from a doctor who is exhausted mentally, emotionally or physically? Of course not. Some professions actually do recognize the need to protect their employees from burn out, and offer sabbaticals. But not every profession does this practice. The fact is at some p...

5 Conversations That Will Change You We all say, “communication is important.” The problem is, we still do not communicate all that effectively. If we did, our personal and professional relationships would be so much more effective and efficient. What is the biggest problem with our communication? It is ourselves. We either do not have the right conversations, do not focus on the right part of the conversations, or we will not have the hard or difficult conversations. What is more we are of...

Achieve the Possible Has life dealt you a bunch of lemons, and you can’t seem to make lemonade? Have things happened to your business that you are stuck? Has it come to the point that you are saying to yourself, it’s not possible? Do you need a reawakening to what is possible? Have you lost your vision? Maybe you never had one? Are you making an impact? How is your focus? How about your purpose? The fact is, there is not a thing you can do about what happens to you, but you do have control h...

Motivation: How Do You Create It for Yourself and Your Team? Motivation. There are a ton of theories that exist. Some theories suggest that motivation comes from within, others suggest motivation can be inspired from others. Regardless of what camp you fall into, there is one thing that has stood that test of time and that is “Prospect Theory” which was coined by Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman in 1979. This theory of motivation still holds true today. The fact is are motivated to avoid pa...

Being Intentional Creates Success in Life and Business! Would you like to be more successful in both your life and your business? What does that word “success” mean to you, really? Whatever it means to you personally, would you like to improve upon it? The answer is “YES”! We all want to be more successful in life and business. A great deal has been said, about success, but maybe there is another way you have not thought about. Being more intentional. Then add to that practical action, and ...

Can Your Business Run without You? As I am writing this, I had just finished talking to an entrepreneur/business owner who said, “I’ve got too much on me… And only I can do it.” So often, the very thing that they created for freedom from having to work for someone else becomes the very thing the imprisons you. Because you have become the very center of your business, everything revolves around you. It’s all about you. And when that happens, you don’t have a business to sell, because it can’t ...

Success Blueprint for Life and Business – The Oxcart Technique If I were to ask you if you wanted to be successful? Most all of you would say “yes”. If I were to ask, would like to be more successful than you are right now? Again, most all of you would say, “yes”. The fact is, success looks differently to different people. And we look at success differently if it is personal or professional. What if there was a strategy or technique that you could apply to every situation you wanted to be mor...

Leading Change in Your Business or Organization Change is inevitable. It’s one of the guarantees we have in life. Even in our businesses and organizations, we must deal with change. The fact is no one likes change. We have a built-in mechanism to resist it. On some level, change violates our sense of comfort and freedom. If you are in leadership, what can you do to help make the change in your organization smoother? How can you help make change not so overwhelming? In this episode of A New D...

Owners Prison: 3 Levels to Breaking Free If you are an owner of a company there is one thing that is absolutely true. You are responsible for everything! There is always a fire. And there are no days off. But is that the way it should be? When entrepreneurs start with an idea, they want to change the world, but as the owner of their own company eventually they make themselves a prisoner to their own ideas. And when you are in owners’ prison, we shut out the world around us. Our families are s...

Breaking the Procrastination Habit Let’s be honest there are things that you don’t want to do, that you know you should do, but don’t do. And the reasons are many. You may say, “I don’t procrastinate, I never do that in my job”! Okay, well how’s that eating right thing going for you? How about those workouts you said you would do…someday. Oh how about not eating sugar, quitting drinking, stopping fast food, going to the doctor, learning a foreign language, an instrument, going to counseling, ...

How Navy SEALs and Entrepreneurs Bend & Break the Rules for Results! Get a job at any business and the first thing you are told is the rules. “This is how we do things here.” As we age we get even more rule oriented. Less dreaming, less risk taking, less creative thinking, and God forbid that you should challenge convention. The fact is we are a rules driven society. The fact is those that disagree with you, want to impose their rules on YOU, so you will do as they say and wish. And yes the ...

Resilience, You, Your Work, and Your Life More and more people in the workforce including executives are starting to realize the toll that wellness, stress, and severe health issues are taking on their jobs and their families. We all feel it, and we need answers. And that is where this week’s book Resilience @ Work comes in. Four people sit around a fire at the beach after taking lessons to learn to surf. These people are as different as you and me and carry with them their different personal...

Your Energy Determines Your Success Every single day we bring some sort of energy in to our work place, home, and every conversation. Our energy is rarely if ever neutral. In fact, it typically is either destructive, or constructive. And that energy comes at different levels. But…what if we could harness the constructive energy, and understand that even destructive energy could have a place and purpose? And what if we could control the right level of energy that could powerfully influence pr...

You Need to Find Your Authenticity to Find Purpose The famous sociologist Erving Goffman in his dramaturgical theory suggested that we are all actors on a stage, and we wear masks so people will perceive us the way we want them to perceive us. In today’s world and the party that is social media we see more masks as people present themselves behind screens where we often will not see the truth of who they are. And if we cannot be true to who we are, that is, be authentic, then how can we truly...

Increase Profitability with the Right Marketing Message We all know marketing is important. But is your marketing positively influencing your profitability? Often times in business we just turn things over to a marketing department and we hope for the best. And often times marketing is filled with jargon that sounds great and impressive, but there is no direct causation to profitability. Instead of you sitting on the outside wondering what marketing can be effective, it would be better to ed...

60% of Sales People Never Meet Their Quota… The Question is “why” and what Can You as a Sales Manager Do about it? Well here it is episode 300! Wow! I can’t believe we have been doing this show for 6 years. It has been an awesome time. And you know what? I LOVE IT!!! So in this 300th episode we talk sales with our friend Steve Weinberg and his latest book. Join us! Did you know that 60% of salespeople never reach their sales quota? You may think it’s 50/50 but in fact most do not make the...

Get 101 Lessons from an Entrepreneur Who Made It Big! I think all of us dream of working for ourselves at some point or another. We all like the idea of being an entrepreneur. But let’s be honest, being an entrepreneur is not easy. In fact it takes a lot of guts, a lot of resilience, sleeplessness nights, and spending a lot of your time alone. But one of the ways you can get through it is when you are able to talk with the people who have done it and done it successfully. And that is exactly...