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The Ohio State University Men's Basketball team has won a lot this year. Losses are a stark contrast to the norm, thus it’s easier for me to see the difference between an on performance and an off performance.Clark Kellogg may have said it best when he exclaimed (paraphrase) “Jared Sullinger and the Buckeyes are most effective when the Young Fella gets his work done early.”Kellogg's was a wise

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In our work with over 100 companies, we’ve found two shifts in perspective that are driving innovation, growth and increased revenue—1) the way we perceive ourselves and 2) the way we perceive our networks.My Grandpa was a union president inside a rubber company in Mansfield, Ohio back in the 1960s. I grew up in Ashland. Mansfield was the first community (of the two) to oxidize and rust; Ashland

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A business owner or department manager will profess the importance of diligence in selecting a best-fit person for the position, only to skimp on qualifying the new sales hire. Why?A sales guy may 'understand' that he needs to make 100 dials to set 10 appointments, but then lose focus and energy after 10 calls and make excuses. Why?Cognitive dissonance. We all tend to separate ourselves from 'the

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Kmart’s notorious blue light—it’s a cautionary tale like those I used to watch in “After School Specials.” Like the store’s woes, the symptoms are many and no justice would be done to unpack them all here.The root cause though is pretty simple: FOCUS.Focus on first things first. This is red-hot-relevant as we contemplate where the overall economy sits on the expansion curve and where our

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A client said to me recently: “I’m going to a lot of networking events but they’re worthless! I’m not getting anything out of them.” Can you feel his pain? My questions to him: “What are you putting in?” “What do you expect?” There’s a golden rule—often spoken into triteness—in building people networks: you’ll get out what you put in. Three important perception adjustments that opened up a new

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Each business owner and leader has a unique DNA. That DNA is the hard-wiring that allows for the optimization of your talents, gifts, skills and crafts.Many leaders operate best when they are living a healthy balance between working in the process of the business and leading the business: building, refining and directing the vision and dreams the organizational processes are designed to

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The DNA of human relationships is the foundational ingredient to growing human networks. Our future is based on the size, power and responsiveness of our networks. So it’s important to know what comprises the DNA of these critical relationships: 1) People are attracted to things that are valuable to them 2) People who are liked get 40% more business than their peers who are just ‘

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Perceptions lead to thoughts. Thoughts lead to attitudes. Perceptions, thoughts and attitudes produce our actions (or our 'not acting'). Actions bring about circumstances. Stuck in some tough circumstances? Getting unstuck--for good--requires shifting perception first. Therein is the only great and sustainable engine to personal and organizational change.Perception Changers:1) You are

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There is nothing that rouses my ire like one-pull networkers.What are one-pull networkers? They are people who push into your network looking for a golden connection and then pull away, name and introduction in hand.I'm not so sure that the world isn't made up of 80% of these kinds of folks (please help prove me wrong on this). Which is a shame for people who are hard working and altruistic (i.e.

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Last time I wrote about perceptions leading to thoughts, thoughts leading to attitudes, attitudes leading to actions and actions producing results.We are impatient creatures, I understand. However, it’s important to remember that change has a lag.Often (minus supernatural occurrences), it takes time to see increases in sales, revenue and customer retention based on new perceptions, et.al.The

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“Each tree is recognized by its own fruit.” The Bible. Luke's Book Chapter 6 Verse 44.My perceptions of mind (schema) shape how I think. My thoughts create my attitude. My attitude creates the actions I choose and the way I do what I do.The results I have in my life can be tied-back to perceptions, thoughts, attitude and actions. Renewing of mind to produce good and right thoughts is vitally

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The knowing- to-doing gap is more important than ever. Enormous bytes of information are available all around us. Amazing advances in technology have created stunning access to this information. I have more info available at my fingertips than anyone in the history of the world ever has—hovering over my keyboard, looking expectantly at the Google search bar.The days of tell and sell are over.

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Sir Francis Bacon is attributed with a phrase that has felt incomplete to me for a long while: "knowledge is power."If knowledge is power then Wisdom is the sought after source of perpetual energy. Knowledge is more like potential energy--it's a force once it's in motion. Wisdom is the motion. Wisdom is having the right answer through knowledge and understanding...and then doing it.Tiger Woods is

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