Having advised thousands of business leaders, my colleagues at ghSMART and I have heard many common causes of stress. Here are some of the causes:
You have a bold vision but lack confidence in your team to execute it. So, your business plan feels more like wishful thinking than a reasonable set of results you expect your team to achieve in the future.
Is Your Business On The Path To Sustainable Growth?
In the previous edition of this magazine, Verne Harnish introduced the first five Rockefeller Success Habits. These included improving your executive team, aligning your company’s goals to the No. 1 thing that has to be accomplished each quarter, establishing proper internal communication, accountability for your goals, and collecting employee input.
With Best-Selling Author and Motivational Speaker, Nick Vujicic
After nervously delivering a speech to his classmates, Nick Vujicic’s life was forever changed when an excited school janitor who witnessed it proclaimed, “You’re good. You’re going to become a worldwide speaker.
The Secrets to My Success
Some would say starting a business in 2008 in the middle of the Great Recession while your husband was unemployed, and you were in the process of adopting a child from Russia, wasn’t the best timing. Life is like that. You can’t always wait for the stars to be aligned to build your business or go for some goal.
According To America’s No. 1 Leadership Authority, John C. Maxwell
“How you lead determines how well you succeed.” – John Maxwell
If you’re like much of the population, at some point in your life, you’ve experienced poor leadership. Either you’ve had a boss that made you dread coming to work, or you have been part of an organization where the leader was difficult and focused on your shortcomings.
Is Your Business On The Path To Sustainable Growth?
Managers who have completed the Rockefeller Habits Checklist (which can be downloaded at ScalingUp.com) often ask us two questions:
How did we survive/thrive for all these years yet have nothing checked off on the list?
Are the habits in any kind of order?
Responding to the first question, we remind executive teams that this is an execution checklist.
Barbara Corcoran can still remember many of the sweat-inducing moments in her climb to becoming the Queen of New York Real Estate. Business leaders looked to her as someone with a mind for sales-focused growth and innovation, while Corcoran claims she used childhood lessons from her Irish-Catholic parents and a competitive spirit spurred on by insults and undiagnosed dyslexia to push herself to innovative ideas that would serve as her lifeline.
There’s no doubt that as one of ABC’s Shark Tank investors, Daymond John knows what it takes to start a company from nothing and grow it into a massive success.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens by a single mom who worked three jobs to put food on the table, no one can say John had any special advantages as a kid.
In 2004, Ramadi, Iraq, became the center of control for the Middle Eastern terrorist group al-Qaeda. Two-year battles ensued over the city of 500,000 people, during which the rule of law was nonexistent, bloodshed was constant, and devastation was unrelenting.
One of the key characteristics of the top customer experience brands in the world is that they are “Zero Risk” to do business with. A Zero Risk business isn’t one that never makes mistakes; every excellent customer service company drops the ball from time to time.
