Powerful Speaking and Profitable Business

by Gregory Neil on November 2, 2011

All day long, your business and your employees are managing work getting done. The more efficiently your organization executes commitments, the more money you make.
Powerful and effective execution starts with powerful management. Powerfully effective management starts with powerful speaking and listening. You will not have powerful actions without powerful speaking and management.

Speaking without power is a management style that is relying on the hope of circumstances to turn out and deliver the results, very likely accompanied by worry, fear, stress, and frustrations.

Powerful speaking as a management style wields requests for commitments in time, challenging the best execution possible. In short, more attention to work on the front end, pays big back end dividends.

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Learning vs. Static Organizations

by Gregory Neil on October 26, 2011

Unless your business is perfectly run with no mistakes, there is some human error. Are you fully capitalizing on those mistakes? Are they new mistakes – or the same ones over and over again?

Unless you set up daily and weekly learning opportunities, your business will race along with a focus on getting the next job done, and become static. To remain aggressively profitable, you must use every opportunity for training and development.

Learning needs to be institutionalized into your daily and weekly meetings. Mistakes shift from a negative to a positive as they become viewed as an opportunity to become stronger faster.

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Leadership Power Tools and Business Accelerators

October 19, 2011

Part 2 – Commitment Management – Out of “the Box” and into “the Gap” In the same way that Accountability brings focus to your business, Commitment Management brings speed of execution to your day-to-day operations. This is a tool you really want to sharpen and master, because if you do, the payoff is huge. Everyone [...]

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Leadership Power Tools and Business Accelerators

October 13, 2011

Part 1 – Accountability Think of these next 3 posts as business power tools, or even better, business accelerators. They combat against the drift of entropy towards business as usual and mediocrity that is common to every business. 1. Accountability – Brings focus to your operations, meaning, clarifying exactly what each person is accountable for, [...]

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Classic Business Blind Spot!

October 5, 2011

You hire someone who, at that time, seems to be the best person for the position. Everyone is happy – for a while. Then, at some point there is a problem. Do you stop to ask the question – is it the new person, or is it the management style, or is it something about [...]

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