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Gossip: The Most Destructive Thing in Business

When someone says something less than positive about another, whether it’s conscience or intentional, whether it’s true or false, it colors perspective and can completely change the way we see one another. It’s true in that it’s obviously one person’s point of view, but that doesn’t make it the truth. With the way we speak [...]

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Counter Intuitive Management: The Fastest Way to A Successful Business

Start with the recognition that your business culture is what shapes everyone’s behavior. And everyone’s habits and behaviors are what produce the results. So, if you’re not getting the results you need, you need to tune up the culture of your business. Either you manage your culture, or it manages you! Working to produce success [...]

Counter Intuitive Management: The Fastest Way to A Successful Business is a post from: Gregory Neil Associates

The Right Context for Business Success

It starts with a Culture of Accountability, Accountability at every level of the business. The real power in Accountability is what each person speaks for, what they give voice to. Many people confuse this with a less powerful form of management where the speaking is done for someone, or work is assigned without the opportunity [...]

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Why Daily Problems and Challenges Are NOT a Bad Thing

Because if your daily problems and challenges are offered in the right context, they become the best tool you have to building leadership under you. Becoming masterful at anything requires practice. The practice of solving problems in a team environment builds leadership skills. Key employees and senior managers need the practice of shouldering the weight [...]

Why Daily Problems and Challenges Are NOT a Bad Thing is a post from: Gregory Neil Associates

The Only Thing to Fear is Fear Itself

When making decisions regarding your business, never, ever give your power over to fear. It paralyzes, constricts, obstructs, stresses, and damages your business. It starts with the misunderstanding that regarding some particular situation, you have no other option other than to stick to what you have. Whether that’s an employee who has been with you [...]

The Only Thing to Fear is Fear Itself is a post from: Gregory Neil Associates

The 2nd Most Powerful Management Tool You Have

With even just a little Acknowledgment, you can accomplish so much like: Praise – as in bringing attention to a job well done. Educate – using a job well done to set a standard for everyone. Empower – putting attention on someone for something specifically well done. And the best thing is, if makes you [...]

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The Most Powerful Management Tool You Have

Building leadership under you… Are you effectively leveraging this for the highest productivity in your business? • It gives your employees what they want most — the ability to solve problems for you, the doing of which on a daily weekly basis accomplishes several things. • It gives them the experience needed to think like [...]

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You Make a Difference

It takes courage, almost always involves some risk, and there’s almost always something you have to give up. Like being comfortable, or waiting for someone else to get it done. Or the notion that you don’t have what it takes, or you’re not the right person. Here is a good rule of thumb: If you [...]

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Freedom – Just A Simple 7 Letter Word

Yet, is not every one of our lives preoccupied with this concern every single day? Freedom to have time to yourself. Freedom to travel where you want. Freedom to do the things you want to. In short, the freedom to live your life the way you want to. In honor of this year being an [...]

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Start Your Year Strong, Stay Strong

Winston Churchill is famed for delivering the shortest commencement speech ever recorded in college history: “Never give in. Never, never, never–in nothing great or small, large or petty–never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” Start Your Year [...]

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