Today in America we're heading into a holiday weekend, Labor Day. - Monday will be a holiday for many folks, providing a 3-day weekend. This is typically considered the last holiday of the summer or the first holiday of autumn.

One of the more memorable books in my library was published in the summer of 1987. It was written by the Jan Carlzon, CEO of SAS Group, owner of the airlines Scandinavian Airlines and Scandinavian Airlines Ireland.

If you were King Arthur you'd have knights to gather at the roundtable. But you're not a king. Much less King Arthur. - But you spend nights around the table. Likely fretting about decisions. Trying to figure out what to do.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin was first published in 1793. In the 1916 edition editor, Frank Woodworth Pine wrote this in the introduction... Franklin is a good type of our American manhood. Although not the wealthiest or the most powerful,

"In a minute," maybe a teenager's favorite phrase when asked to do something by their parents. As parents, we understand that if we don't continue to insist, the proverbial minute will never arrive. Our kids will never get around to taking out the tras...

This is going to help you because I'm going to pull the curtain back and walk you through why I changed the name and strategy of the podcast not that long ago...and why I'm now changing it again. First, let me tell you about my experience in completely...

Everything good is sales.  - Everything bad is lack of sales. - Go ahead. Argue against it. Push back. - But I know what I'm talking about. I've experienced dreadful lease negotiations. I've participated in tense and uncomfortable vendor negotiation...

Getting your vehicle stuck in a rut ain't fun. And it can be difficult to get yourself out. Which is why sometimes we have to get somebody to pull or tow us out of a rut. - In life, our ruts are just our habits.

For the past few years, I've worked with and alongside Leo Bottary. We do a podcast together - WHAT ANYONE CAN DO PODCAST (the title is taken after Leo's latest book). On Wednesday we recorded an episode centering around an article Leo wrote for CEO WO...

It was one of the first business books I ever read. I can't be sure, but I think my grandfather (my mother's father) had a copy. The book was published in 1949. It's the classic book on selling by Frank Bettger,