“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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Truth be told, I LOVE a good rush of adrenaline! It motivates me. "Rush as Reward" can be very effective! But a skill over-used, or a strategy wrongly applied, can be a fast path to disaster.
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"Hillary's In - Now What? What's Wanting in Leadership in 2016?" On April 12, 2015, a NY Times article read: “Ending two years of speculation and coy denials, Hillary Rodham Clinton announced on Sunday that she would seek the presidency for a second time, immediately establishing herself as the likely 2016 Democratic nominee. “I’m running for…
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