Covey’s 8th Habit The idea behind Covey’s 8th Habit is finding our voice.  We’ve covered the bases about how to discover it, how to use it to create influence and how to declare intention, but to use our voice to activate our teams and get

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Your December Strategy? …equals Boom or Bust in 2011. So we’ve learned from Covey how to find and use our voice and it makes sense. But here comes December…ut-oh…holidays?  No one wants to start a business in December.  There’s too much going on. Years ago

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Covey’s 8th Habit So, with Covey’s help, we’ve found our voice and we know how to express it…and some new folks came in. Now what? Covey’s book, The 8th Habit, did to leave me hanging, and I won’t leave you hanging. Everybody knows the work

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A Break from Covey We’ve been going over Covey’s 8th Habit the last few days and I will conclude that in the next post.  Sometimes it’s a good idea to step back, relax and reduce our business to the ridiculous because it really is a

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In the previous post, we shared the idea that greatness is necessary to draw talent out of others based on Steven Covey’s brilliant book, The 8th Habit. The 8th habit is finding your voice and it makes a difference that is powerful in our thinking

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It has changed. The world.  It’s changed. The days of being effective to build a large organization are over.  When Covey’s groundbreaking book first broke, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, simply by practicing the 7 habits one became effective and could easily grow

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What happens in real life… We feel great when we sponsor a new person into our business and that creates a trap.  Most people never see the trap, fall in and then, when they quit, we rationalize their leaving by saying, “They didn’t really want

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Talent is never enough In this last of 5 installments breaking down Dr. John C. Maxwell’s book, Talent is Never Enough, I want to pinpoint two major areas. Perseverance and Teamwork. In the previous 4 posts, we’ve learned talent is misunderstood and while it is

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We Need Focus and Practice In the 3 previous blogs covering Maxwell’s indispensable leadership book, Talent is Never Enough, we’ve gone over the 3 things we must believe to lead and how passion and initiative make one a talent-plus person. Throughout this leadership masterpiece, Maxwell keeps stressing

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