Many people - in companies all over the world in fact - face the problem of trying to start a business. It is a classic dilemma: you have an idea to make money, but you need money in order to start the business. It's a classic "Catch-22" Continue...

Success can be understood in so many different ways.The term is used widely by book authors in the field of personal development and a lot in education when passing exams or simply filling out an online application for a merchant account: "Success Continue...

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates recently criticized the US military for not doing enough to support soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, singling out the Air Force for adapting too slowly to the new enemies on those battlefields. He blamed military Continue...

As a leadership coach, I am a firm believer that a person has to be able to lead themselves before they can successfully lead another individual, a team or an organization. Where is the best place to start?The first thing a great lead Continue...

The Importance of Strategic Thinking in Effective LeadershipAmong the requisites of an effective leader is his capacity to understand the things around him and to formulate options for situations that demand such action. These traits o Continue...

A leader in any field has to set an example to others, more so in business, he has to be a role model. He should inspire confidence in others. He should be cool and unflinching in a crisis. A leader should be supremely self confident. He should be Continue...

Success for organizations takes single mindedness. Determine what you want and then take unwavering action toward it. Leaders in organizations who talk about treating people right, but in reality treat people with disrespect, create pain and resen Continue...

One of our presidential candidates (Barack Obama) wrote a book entitled: The Audacity of Hope. If you are feeling down and things look bleak, hope tells you, “This, too, will pass.” Hope tells you that things can get better. Yet, when we hope Continue...

Any high performing team will always demonstrate an element of pure class. They’ll have the guns or the stars who have the ability to do extraordinary things - whose competence in the technical aspects of their work make them outstanding contrib Continue...

Executive leadership training programs can sharpen and focus your strategic vision.By acquiring the skills, expertise and processes of visionary leadership you will magnify and telescope the effectiveness of your leadership behaviors. Continue...

l. Get a facilitator. This is the traffic cop of the session, and should be an outsider. An insider brings baggage that can inhibit the free flow of ideas. HR consulting organizations are one possible resource; if you are working with a design fir Continue...

“The body never lies and the body never keeps quiet”, Ancient Chinese proverb.Observe the thr Continue...

We all have leadership roles in life. Most of us have multiple roles where we need to set a direction and mobilize people towards it - both at work and outside.I am lucky enough to have met a few born leaders. Of the thousands of peopl Continue...

I read a fascinating article recently based on some medical research. The study was of a large sample of people with life threatening heart problems – all of whom were facing surgery. They were all by their doctors that, irrespective of the surg Continue...

In my experience most leadership team members spend a day a month meeting together and the other 29 days complaining about what a waste of time it was and how they aren’t talking about the ‘real issues’.Almost everyone I say that Continue...

We all know that change is all around us and it’s going faster and faster. Most of us have also to promote change as part of our jobs and in other parts of our lives.Most of us are all too familiar with the resistance that we encount Continue...

Ads for vending machines for sale are not something that you would regularly find in the classifieds. However, there are many of opportunities to buy different types of vending machines available online. Some of these even have established routes, wh Continue...

When discussing the many benefits of telecommuting, it is almost always a foregone conclusion that it is the employee who benefits from this new mode of doing business. The highlighted points usually involve the employees ability to no longer have to Continue...

As you will know, eBay gets serious traffic. In fact, something like 2 million individual buyers visit eBay each day ready to make bids and purchases online.And eBay is more than just oddities and collectibles - it is huge, huge business. Continue...

Most people who start and operate a small business expect to work hard for long hours in order to get their business idea off the ground. What they don't expect is to have to shine their shoes and their personal financial resume in order to get small Continue...