Breaking Out of Your State of Complacency

Complacency inhibits your ability to create new growth and sets you in a condition for decline. Leaders who become complacent often are unaware of their situation. Complacency resonates with being too comfortable or when you lack the ability to see that conditions are changing, and you take no action. You must be continually focused on …

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Leaders Must Use Their Words and Actions to Inspire

As leaders, you must use your words to inspire your team every moment. Even when expressing disappointment, you must carefully choose and craft your message to communicate the problem, but also inspire the team to work better together toward your vision. Adverse situations will reveal character flaws throughout the organization. It is through tough situations …

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Communication Tips for New Hires to Be Successful

New hires come into the company usually excited about contributing right away. They want to deliver lots of value to their new employer. What makes it complicated are long tenured team members who use different terms for the same requirement or process. This then creates frustration and confusion for new employees. Proper communication processes involving …

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Reading Creates Great Opportunities to Grow Yourself and Your Business

Reading can be an amazing conduit to learn new ideas, to expand your abilities and to better understand rapid change. I believe that leaders who read consistently tend to be more responsive to changes in the business environment and open to new ways to grow their organization. Building knowledge and developing your own intellectual and …

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Team USA Men’s Basketball Team Seems Complacent in Win

I’m not sure if it was 100% complacency or just a lack of focus, but the Men’s USA Olympic Basketball team nearly lost to Serbia on Friday night, August 12th, 2016. Our Men’s team have been winning games with little effort for years. Even last night during the game, they had a large lead, but …

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