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Are You Feeling a Little Stressed?
Stress is a natural part of life—but as a culture, we’ve upped the ante and are entering an era of super stress. The consequences of that super stress are showing up in every aspect of daily life and come with incredible costs as we wrestle with the consequences.
How to Bounce Back from Crushing Defeat
As a record-making quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings in the 1970s, I led my team to three Super Bowls in a span of only four years. In case you hadn’t heard, I lost all three of them.
3 Things Great Leaders Gain from Failure
Sometimes you have to fail in order to win. While this may seem counterproductive, mistakes can actually serve as life-changing experiences.
4 Success Strategies I Took from the NFL to My Business
If football taught me anything about business, it’s that you win the game one play at a time. It’s an analogy I’ve used in the past. As a small business owner and entrepreneur, I face many of the same challenges I did on the field and I use similar strategies for tackling them.
How Strong Performance Can Mask Issues in the Future
The truth is strong performance can actually mask issues if you are not careful, which can come back and bite you in the future. This is why leaders need to stay sharp and keep their foot on the gas to ensure that today’s good performance leads to tomorrow’s exceptional performance.
Startups and Business Owners: The “Have to Do” Factor is Infinite
Do you use what you “have to do” for your business as the constant recurring excuse for missing things that matter to people they love—soccer games, recitals, appointments, and so on?
Half of US Adults Say a Company’s Reputation for Social Responsibility Affects Their Buying Decisions
Good news for businesses and charities. About half of American adults say that companies’ social responsibility practices have a strong effect, or sometimes affects, their purchasing decisions and “who to do business with.” Another 25% say it affects their decisions once in a while.
What Does the CEO of the Future Look Like?
What do you think of when you picture the CEO of any company in your mind? I’ll bet it’s a stuffy-looking older man in a business suit, holding a leather briefcase and jabbering on a cell phone. A quick Google image search of the term ‘CEO’ proves my hypothesis.
8 Habits of Respected Businesswomen
Women get a bad rap in the work world, and we don’t have to look much further than pop culture for examples. Fortunately, executives like Facebook COO and Lean In author Sheryl Sandberg are fostering an important discourse that is reaching female and male executives alike to spark change.
If My Business Coaching Clients Did Everything I Told Them to Do
Coaching is when a qualified and trained individual works with you on a regular basis to help you find the truth within, which includes setting priorities and goals, identifying challenges to achieving the established goals, and improve your performance.
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