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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

Are You a Decisive or Deliberative Leader?

Outstanding leaders are decisive. They are not hesitant, reticent, or unsure. They are brave and daring. They are comfortable making bold decisions, even when they are not 100% sure success will follow.?Right? But how about being deliberative? Calm. Calculated. Intentional. Slow to act. Aren?t these good qualities in a leader as well? Be Decisive, But […]

Leadership

Deciding When the Choice Is Unclear

Let’s have a conversation today about making tough decisions. Whether leading others or leading ourselves, making the right decision determines our level of success. Stripped down to the basics, there are two types of decisions. As leaders we must know the difference between the two. By having this understanding, we will be able to avoid […]

Leadership

When Your People Don’t Do What They Should

Some of the hardest times I have ever faced as a leader were those when someone on my team was not doing what they should. If you are like me, inevitably you will have at least one person on your team who is in this camp, and sometimes more. And so we ask ourselves, “What […]

Productivity

How to Get Things Done

I am not a doer by nature. I am a thinker and a perfectionist. Left to my natural devices, I like to contemplate matters to the nth degree before I execute them.?As a leader, I have had to grow in this area. I want to share with you one of the most important lessons I […]

Leadership, Productivity

Be More Effective?Discover Your Input:Output:Outcome Ratio

As leaders, we all want to be more effective in any process, organization, or team that we lead. Many times we work so hard, but seem to go nowhere. Allow me to share with you the input:output:outcome principle which I believe will help you to be more effective.? Input = Your Investment For me to […]

Personal Development

You Fail When You Don’t Fail

Last week I watched an inspiring interview?on CNN?s GPS with Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx, a highly successful undergarment company. In 2012 at the age of 41, Sara Blakely was named the world?s youngest, self-made female billionaire by Forbes magazine. During the course of the interview she recounted how as a fax machine sales […]

Leadership

Help Your People Succeed In Life

Great leaders are concerned with helping their people succeed in life more than their success as employees. This is a simple principle yet one of the most powerful and difficult to live by. I always hear players of legendary sports coaches say things such as, ?Our coach cared about us as people more than just […]

Leadership

POWER BOOK: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

[blockquote text=’POWER BOOK is an Aspire blog that features a life changing book. Amanda Scott, an Aspire managing partner, has extensive leadership experience and in this blog features The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. Thank you for sharing, Amanda! – 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′] Many […]

Personal Development, Productivity

Habits! How To Make Them And Break Them (PART II)

The fact that an astronaut can make a space walk with relative ease just because she repeated that sequence many times on earth is a powerful concept!? It can change our lives. (Please refer to Part I which goes over the basics of habits.) IV. ?FOR HABITS TO BE ?AUTOMATIC,? MINIMAL OR NO CHANGES CAN […]