Business Success Principle of the Day: "Poise". Having the ability to maintain your composure and an even emotional state while under pressure, to remain Poised, to an extremely valuable skill. We all admire someone who will stand firm and fight back while keeping level headed and cool. Implementation: Practice patience, Poise, and confidence. Embrace that [...]
Business Success Principle of the Day: "Leveling Up". Every once in a while, we all have the opportunity to take it up a Level - through a promotion, winning a large contract, getting a new job, enjoying some stroke of good fortune, or getting a payoff from years of work. Sometimes, you just wake up [...]
Business Success Principle of the Day: "Rehearsal". There is a big difference between practice and Rehearsal. We practice to learn material and develop skills and talents. We Rehearse to polish a performance. That is important in business when we are preparing for a presentation of any kind. We learn the lines, perhaps even memorize a [...]
Business Success Principle of the Day: "Find a Way". I met some lovely ladies in business together whom I wanted to support, but their cash flow was too low for the services they wanted and needed. So we found a way to make it work; we adjusted the deliverables, negotiated some terms - and we'll [...]
Business Success Principle of the Day: "Compassionate Service". It really isn't that hard to rescue a customer relationship when something goes wrong. The key? Courtesy and Compassion. Caring about the customer and letting them know it. Even if you need to refund the money or make it right in some other way, Courtesy and Compassion [...]
Business Success Principle of the Day: "Get The Money!". Some say the number one rule of business is "Get the Money!", but that's a little naive. The huge challenge in business is that there are many things you must do, and if you fail at any one of them, you will not succeed in business. [...]
Business Success Principle of the Day: "Persistence". I talked with a prospect today whom I met over a year ago. Since our first meeting, they have been working diligently to complete their utility patent and develop the next version of their product. Now, they are ready to move forward more aggressively, so it is time [...]
Business Success Principle of the Day: "Success". The way you define success impacts everything you do. For some people, it is a completion - nothing else matters. Other people celebrate every little bit of progress, and still others, only the significant milestones along the way. For some, it is all about the results, for others, [...]
Business Success Principle of the Day: "Quality". I am a stickler for Quality, especially with the written word. You can get by with a few stutters and stammers when speaking, but typos and grammatical errors in formal documents, especially business plans and marketing materials, stick out like a sore thumb. And readers will always infer [...]
Business Success Principle of the Day: "Karma". Most days I serve others all day long, and the Universe occasionally provides a return of positive energy in a very nice way. Today, someone with whom I hadn't spoken in years remembered me and introduced me to his business partner. They could use some support in a [...]