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Safety & The Right Kind Of Emotional Energy (301)
Safety and encouragement. They’re vital to our ability to grow, overcome adversity and battle whatever life is tossing our way. Here’s a worthwhile daily admonishment… Help somebody feel safe today. The topic had a genesis over at my hobby podcast,
Helping People Find Smarter Rooms: The Power Of Peers (300)
Let’s start with a press release that came out on Tuesday, July 16, 2019. It could be found at Yahoo! Finance, among other places. Since this is a podcast permit me to share it with you. It’s not terribly long.
Asking & Answering Tough Questions – Grow Great Daily Brief #241 – July 8, 2019
When I was about 27 I uttered a statement one afternoon while my team was wrestling with some customer service challenges. “The quality of our questions determines the quality of our business.” The statement was provoked by our company’s inability to c...
Why You Should Join A Peer Advantage Group (But Not Mine) – Grow Great Daily Brief #240 – July 2, 2019
Small business owners. CEOs. Executives. Leaders. Whether you’re a #1 or a #2 or a team leader…surrounding yourself with others who are like you is one of THE most powerful learning, understanding and growing tools you can find.
Happy Birthday, Second Half Of 2019 – Grow Great Daily Brief #239 – July 1, 2019
Today I want to provoke you to take a quantum leap forward. It may be uncomfortable. Maybe it’ll be exciting. Let’s just give it our best to make it profitable. Learning. Understanding. Growing. Let’s start with a word. An important word.
Making Failure Temporary – Grow Great Daily Brief #238 – June 28, 2019
Increasingly I’m convinced there is one factor that is far superior to all others in determining our success. Some of my favorite terms are… Tenacity Resilience Ferocity They speak to a person’s refusal to quit.
Small Business Is A Description, Not A Condition – Grow Great Daily Brief #237 – June 27, 2019
Almost 30 years ago I had a conversation with an owner of a small business who was lamenting the smallness of his business (which wasn’t so small really since he was generating multi-millions in annual revenue). “I’m not a neighborhood store,
I Hate To Lose, But I Hate Not Playing More – Grow Great Daily Brief #236 – June 26, 2019
Growing up in the era where business was considered a zero-sum game – meaning, I win at your expense or you win at my expense – competition was fostered. Prized. You wanted to dominate and ruin the competition. The object,
7X7 Fast Start Small Business Coaching – Grow Great Daily Brief #235 – June 25, 2019
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” —Viktor Frankl Speed is a crucial component when it comes to making mea...
Who You Surround Yourself With Matters – Grow Great Daily Brief #234 – June 24, 2019
The Peer Advantage by Bula Network is now enrolling charter members. Today’s show is a brief outline of why you may want to consider applying today. This is a paid, professional peer advantage group (a mastermind group,