A key stumbling block to leadership success is the very mind-set of the leaders. Those leaders who don't believe that results are limitless are selling their jobs and careers short. Here is a four-step process for manifesting a "results are limitless" mind-set. Results are limitless. That's not a supposition. That's...

I remember the year well.....1999 a year filled with terror and panic in the business world. Thousands of dollars were spent on making computer systems Y2K compliant. It all had to do with the calendars in computer systems. Whole systems were going to be wiped out, defense systems, transit systems,...

Imagine that you open a meeting by saying, "We need to talk about the budget."And someone responds with, "I named my dog Budget because he's too big."After the laughter subsides, you wonder why anyone would make such a silly remark in your meeting. And this leads to a larger question:...

People attend teleconferences in the privacy of their offices. That avoids travel, but it also allows unproductive behavior that can ruin the meeting. Here's how to make your next teleconference a success. Even a well-planned teleconference can go poorly. Some people treat any meeting as a casual social activity instead...

The story of the emperor's new clothes is a fairy tale about men who fooled the emperor into believing that they had made him a beautiful suit of clothes. In fact they had not made anything. The emperor went out in public wearing nothing but his underwear because he didn't...

Everyone knows that an agenda is the key to an effective meeting. But an agenda that consists of a list of nouns, such as budget, software, and picnic, is useless. Here’s how to prepare a real agenda that puts you in control of the meeting. 1) Goal. Every real agenda...

Teleconferences can be a boon or a bust. On the positive side, they allow people at different locations to attend meetings without having to travel. On the negative side, they can degenerate into frustrating struggles with uncontrolled babble. This occurs because people lack visual contact, which hinders effective communication and...

1) Avoid meetings. Test the importance of a meeting by asking, "What happens without it?" If your answer is, "Nothing," then don't call the meeting. 2) Prepare goals. These are the results you want t... 1) Avoid meetings. Test the importance of a meeting by asking, "What happens without it?"...

Every now and again a shop owner decides to take on the challenge of building an estimating/business management system from scratch. The one’s I have come across usually have a little bit of technical... Every now and again a shop owner decides to take on the challenge of building an...

Change is thrust upon us every hour of every day - in a radically and rapidly changing world, you just have to get over it! There are ways to do this - common sense ways which when we get into turmoil with ourselves, we lose track of. Here are a...