Month: August 2014

  • Tip Of The Week: “Zero Defense Budget” Teamwork

    Encourage communication and cooperation on your team. It will ignite creativity and innovation.? At Strategic Coach, founders Dan Sullivan and Babs Smith work hard to create an environment where team members can have a “zero defense budget.” Instead of squandering energy on interpersonal conflicts, we try to focus all our thought and emotion on an exciting, positive…

  • Quotable Coach: What Does This Really Mean?

    Quotable Coach: What Does This Really Mean?

    The best way to eliminate complexity is just to ask good questions. How many government and corporate documents would be utterly transformed if someone bothered to ask, “What do we really mean by this?” and wrote that instead? Several years ago, web designer Steve Krug released a book called Don’t Make Me Think. Internet design is always changing,…