When you think of Ben Franklin, what do you think of; scientist, businessman, writer, or diplomat? When I think of Ben Franklin, I think of our nation’s first global entrepreneur. In an age when men and women knew less than 600 people in their lives, Ben Franklin may have known and…
Yesterday, we shared How Can Serving Leaders Help Overcome Challenges? on our Developing Serving Leaders blog, talking about how the world’s changing. Today, we begin providing you and your teams with the tools you need to succeed in changing world. I believe we are living in age of incredible opportunity. To succeed…
In the last several blogs, I’ve written about how so many people in organizations feel disengaged. We talked about how this is impacting our current client relationships and also how it could be hurting your organization’s and team’s growth. I thought I’d share a framework that I use to help…
I’m working on several projects where clients have asked me to determine if their sales team is fully engaged. There have been several recent national studies stating between 60-70 % of employees working today are not engaged in their jobs. Over 15% of these employees are no longer engaged, but…
For all you who are fathers, Happy Father’s Day! What were the most important leadership lessons your father learned from your grandfather? What life lessons did your father pass on to you?
Today, we do our first executive briefing on using The Wedge.We’ve chosen to do this initial briefing because many of our readers have shared that something has changed in the last year about how they sell and market their products and service. They shared several sales trends that are impacting…
We got several notes asking if I have a partner engagement process I use evaluate and engage great potential partners. I use a partner engagement process to help me build successful partnerships and alliances with many of the world’s most innovative organizations. For a partnership to succeed, it must engage both…
Over 80% of Fortune 1000 companies have key partnerships to help them grow faster. However, over 50% are unsatisfied with their business partnerships. How can entrepreneurs create breakthrough partnerships from the beginning of the relationship?
How do you take your business to the next level? What skills are critical for your business to become a market leader in today’s changing market? As a regular reader of Market Leadership Journal, you know how important we think it is for you to be able to prospect and…
I went to the Greater Cleveland Middle-Market Forum last Friday and had several fascinating conversations with many great entrepreneurs about what their biggest challenge is in getting their business to the next level. The number one concern for them is how to hire the right people to keep growing the…