“That Which Is Tolerated Becomes the New Norm: The first responsibility of the CEO is to set and communicate the vision/mission/values of the organization. That is how the bones of the culture are set. To carry through the metaphor, the meat on the bones is the team you curate. The nerves and blood vessels are…
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“Learn about Conversational Intelligence: Work together to master your Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ). It’s not about how smart you are, but how open you are to learning effective and powerful conversational rituals that prime the brain for trust, partnership and mutual success. Have your executive team all read the book and work with each other on…
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“Conduct Data-Driven Assessments: Balance comes from knowing what the team actually needs to focus on. That’s best identified through data-driven assessments rather than intuitive guesses or polling for consensus. The Team Diagnostic™ Assessment is a powerful tool measuring current team conditions so the manager can identify the critical levers to improve team performance so the team…
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Bert Martinez is an Marketing Consultant, Author, Entrepreneur. The goal of Money For Lunch is to share inspiring stories from the most brilliant business minds, world class athletes and influential celebrities on the planet; to help you discover tips and strategies to make your business and your life better than ever! I am on at…
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Are you racing toward the end of the year, beating yourself up over all that you've done wrong or haven't completed? How's that working out for you? Slow down and take a breath. Focus on what is really important because the more frenetic you are, the harder it is to focus on any one task, let…
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Saboteurs are those voices in our head that tell us lies (no, not those kind of voices!), stand in our way and stop our forward progress. We ALL have them. What do your saboteurs say? And what are they doing to slow you down?
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In her comic strip "Rhymes With Orange," Hilary B. Price wields her wit like a scalpel. No surprise she's one of my favorites. In 2005, she created a rather poignant strip: "The Surgery" and this one spoke to me ...
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My father passed away a month ago. In his eulogy, I wrote: It's ironic that the man with a beautiful, limitless heart battled a failing heart for three decades. The magical part is that he never let the failing tissue define him. What defined him was his love and his playful, teen-age exuberance. I wonder…
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As leaders, we develop a set of beliefs about how our businesses "should be" run. Sometimes those beliefs are developed consciously. All-too-often they are developed unconsciously.
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