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Overcome Adversity by Believing in Yourself

What if you could face any challenge head-on by looking within yourself for resilience? It sounds like a lofty dream – reaching your goals effortlessly and facing challenges without a second thought. Laughing and learning through mistakes and enjoying great success...

6 Qualities of a Great Leader

Being an effective leader is more than just showing your team who’s boss
Leaders in any industry continue to face new challenges with technological advancements and changes to the way businesses operate. Leadership roles have never been easy, but now they’re even more complicated with the wide range of business knowledge that these individuals must have.

Don’t Be Discouraged by Mistakes: Learn from Them

We all make mistakes, especially when building a business from the ground up Humans make mistakes. It’s what we do. But what sets successful leaders apart is how they handle these mistakes and use them to their advantage. You may be thinking, easier said than done....

Set the Right Goals for Your Business

Making a list of goals is necessary for any small businessCreating a list of goals takes time, so you want to be sure you’re setting them wisely. Time and again entrepreneurs set goals that are way beyond their reach or that don’t move them forward.So how...

Do What Moves You to Achieve Your Goals

You’ve set several goals for yourself, but now what? It’s time to eat, sleep, and breathe the things that will get you there. Every step you take should be on the same pathway to success. Changing our daily behavior can be hard. Sometimes turning a bad habit into...

Building Your Dream Team

To ensure business success, build a team who share your values and goals The people you surround yourself with make a big impact on your success. This is especially true when running a business, as relationships can make or break you. What you want is a dream team...

Setting a Vision for Your Business

Becoming an entrepreneur is liberating and takes guts. But before you dive in, answer these questions: what’s your vision? What goal are you aiming to reach? Here’s how to set that vision and attainable goals along the way.

Episode#164: Context Matters – Christina Harbridge (Entrepreneur, CEO Alegory Inc.)

If you’re a long term Paper Napkin Wisdom listener, you may remember Christina Harbridge’s last visit EPISODE 47, when we had a lively discussion about shifting focus towards things that are enjoyable.

Episode#166: Manage Your Boss, Staff, and Peers by Spending Time with Your Customers – Chris McGoff (Chairman, Founder)

Being a good manager and effective leader is not just about making decisions on your own, but about understanding how much decision-making depends on the customer’s behavior.

Taking Action #29 – Kindness is a Rare Leadership Skill

A client is calling and they want a discount because something went wrong.
An employee is missing on targets and results are slipping, they need to be realigned.

TA# 24: The Structure of Transparency

Are you looking for uncommon results in your company? Or maybe just for yourself? There’s a structure to build the uncommon results you crave for yourself and your team and it starts with transparency. I’m not just talking about 2% or 5% growth from year to year. I’m...

Taking Action #21: Get Smarter About Goal Making (not just setting)

This is the time of year when so many of us start to take stock of the year that passed and the one that’s coming. It’s that time that we start to think about what could be for the year ahead.
There have been studies done that show that most people only accomplish a small fraction of their goals from year to year. Yet there are others that do much much more.

Taking Action #17 – Want Better Results?

So often we look at the bottom line and continuously set better goals and watch for the outcomes that we want to see. Whether it’s improving the bottom line, better customer service, client retention or other outcome based metric – we want to improve them.

Episode169: Generative Relationship-Building for Entrepreneurs – Peter Mellen (entrepreneur)

The Johari window was created by two psychologists in the mid-1950s as a tool for personal, group, and relationship development. Peter Mellen uses the Johari window as the framework for discussing how individuals and groups act, and how communication and relationships can grow.

Leading Behind the Scenes Ep. 6: Great Leaders Set High Expectations – Mandy Burage

True leaders have walked the walk. Hands on experience is a key element of being a good leader. “If I ask an employee to work late, or travel on a Saturday, they know that I also work late and travel on Saturdays.”