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Do whatever it takes!

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              C-RRRR-AAAAA-CCKK! I swung the rubber mallet, wedging the slim metal chisel deep into the seam between the two mahogany planks. When the chisel was buried deeply enough, I leaned on the end with my full body weight, and endured listening to the awful cracking sound as the firmly glued wood ripped away from its base. I cringed with each blow and ...

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Accelerated Talent Development #11: Can we lead the world in creativity?

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Are Canadians Creative Enough? A thousand Canadian companies are literally working together side by side, generating ideas, experimenting, building on each other’s results and learning together. The result is they are taking big important ideas and innovating at a furious pace, proving they can make real differences in peoples lives and at the same time be profitable. This is no small ...

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What’s Going On? Part II

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Last week I covered the top 3 changes: 1) A risk, more adverse market; 2) It is tougher to access (or market) for new business; 3) Why leadership is so important. Here are 3 more changes to move forward to what you want for your business, team and for yourself. 4) Blame people, dealers, customers or – build them. Help them change or change them. For example, get your salespeople studying ...

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What’s Going On?

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A lot of changes. I’m up north at the cottage on the beautiful pristine lower French River delta, in the middle of summer, and I have a big sweater on and all the windows shut at seven in the morning. (A polar vortex, whatever that is… A lot of big business changes are just as weird to grasp.) I thought I would summarize the biggest trends I see. This comes from two years of ...

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Motherhood Enforcement

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There is nothing like the sight of a fully-armed police officer knocking on your  front door to stop your heart in your chest. Which is what happened to me about 5pm Thursday. Through my new full-length glass front door, I could clearly see a Durham Region policewoman in full gear, including bulletproof vest emblazoned “POLICE” and heavy jackboots. “Is this the little girl you called ...

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Accelerated Talent Development #10: A Passion to be Different – By Design

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A Passion to be Different – By Design   Ellis Don is consistently and amazingly successful. They are different from most companies by design and refine this difference every day. They have annual revenue in excess of $3 billion with over $11 billion in projects under construction in more than 15 countries including Dubai, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and Chile. They are also ranked as #2 ...

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The Underdog Can be Your Ticket to Success

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Dale Carnegie: 1888 – 1955, Founder Lately I’ve been thinking again about what it takes to be successful.  This topic has taken up my thoughts since 1964 when I was one of those who picked up the ball to keep Dale Carnegie’s vision alive in Canada after his death.  Dale created a vision for me and millions of others that I could succeed in life despite any perceived drawbacks. He ...

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Why Change is so Difficult

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Recently I’ve been working with a handful of companies to improve their sales results. I wish it was as simple as teaching new sales techniques. It’s a structural issue.  According to one of my brilliant old mentors, Robert Fritz , everything has a structure and design that causes the behaviours we get. For example, if our commitments, systems and processes, actions and conversations ...

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