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What You Must Know Before You Review 2014 and Plan 2015

It is December. You want to evaluate 2014 and plan for 2015.?But how? How much time will it require? And what key do’s and don’t’s should you follow? Below are key principles to help you?in this important exercise as a leader. It is imperative to be consistent with disciplines that will help move us forward […]

Productivity

Launch, Then Improve

I would like to issue a challenge to you today: Whatever you are trying to create, whatever you keep editing and refining, whatever you keep working on ?one more time? to make perfect? Go ahead and launch.?Improve later! Launching Is Winning Some may disagree. They may say, ?Imagine if Apple launched and produced millions of […]

Leadership

Do Sensitive Conversations Stress You Out?

[blockquote text=’This is a guest post by Andria Bicknell. Andria is a contributing writer and editor for Aspire. She writes about recovering from the effects of perfectionism on her own blog,?Type A Plans B. Andria draws her leadership experience from ministry, business and home. – Wes Saade, M.D.’ text_color=’#ffffff’ width=’95’ line_height=’undefined’ background_color=’#aaaaaa’ border_color=’#dba400′ show_quote_icon=’no’ quote_icon_color=’#dba400′] […]

Leadership

Eradicate Mob Mentality at the Conference Table

[blockquote text=’This is a guest post written by Andria Bicknell. Andria is a contributing writer and editor for Aspire. She writes about recovering from the effects of perfectionism on her own blog,?Type A Plans B. Andria draws her leadership experience from ministry, business and home. – Wes Saade, M.D.’ text_color=’#ffffff’ width=’95’ line_height=’undefined’ background_color=’#aaaaaa’ border_color=’#dba400′ show_quote_icon=’no’ […]

Leadership

Great Leaders Know This Word: Together

Together.?When leaders embrace the ethos of this powerful word, they position their team for greatness.? Wise leaders?bring others with them and?genuinely believe that working?together, alongside others?is the only way to greatness. They don’t position themselves?above everyone else, like some medieval king, issuing orders and judgments from their high throne. True leaders desire to scale mountains […]

Personal Development

Do You Really Need Mentors?

One of the best ways to grow is to be mentored by someone who has traveled further than you in a particular area of life. ?Until five years ago, I had never had a?mentor. No one had shared with me the value of having them or how to go about managing those relationships. I had […]

Personal Development

How Daring Have You Been?

At the end of June of this year, during my 2014 mid-year self-review, I uncovered something interesting. I had listed every activity, decision, or notable occurrence that had happened in the last six months. I listed people I met with, mentors I talked to, trips I took, and activities at work, among others. There were […]

Purpose

Three Steps to Branding Anything

When Steve Jobs brought us the iPod in 2001, we were charmed. I don?t know if you bought one at the time. I did, even though I was not into listening to music via small devices, as some of my friends were back then. The iPod was sleek, simple, and hot! You had to have […]

Leadership

Back to the Basics: What is Leadership?

Last year I heard the well-known writer, Richard Reeves, say something interesting about US presidents. He was referring to President Kennedy and why he was considered to be a great leader, when he said, “We don?t elect presidents to manage the government. We elect presidents to lead the nation.” But can you lead a nation […]

Personal Development

13 Questions to Ask Yourself Mid-Year

It?s mid-year. Time to stop and reflect. I encourage you to block out a few hours for your mid-year reflection. You?ll need to: [unordered_list style=’circle’ number_type=’circle_number’ animate=’no’ font_weight=’regular’] Seclude yourself. Turn your phone off. Take your journal or something to write on. Reassess. [/unordered_list] Here are some key questions to consider during your evaluation. These […]