Author: Dan Sullivan
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The Best Kind Of People For Your Business
More than two years ago, I committed to producing one small book per quarter for the next 25 years—or 100 quarters. For each book, our talented cartoonist, Hamish MacDonald, creates drawings that help illustrate the book’s concepts. Around the time that we would have started work on the eighth book, Hamish had an unfortunate bike-riding…
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4 Steps To Creating Your Ideal Company
Every business owner dreams of having a company that runs itself. When you first set off on the path of becoming an entrepreneur, you probably did everything yourself. You had an idea, you took on the risk, you pursued your goals, and you were successful. But the next stage of success involves letting go of…
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How Extraordinary Teamwork Can Turn Negative Into Positive
[contentblock id=mmp-3] As youngsters, we’re often thrust into situations we don’t have any control over. For me, this led to an important discovery that turned into a life lesson I still call on. I realized that I had a choice. I could choose how I was going to respond in those types of situations, and…
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How To Choose An Entrepreneurial Coach
If you’re an entrepreneur with goals, dreams, and a big vision for the future, a coach can help you get there. In fact, you could even use more than one. I’ve been coaching entrepreneurs for over 40 years, and even I have a number of coaches who encourage and foster my development. I know the…
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How To Build A Business That’s Successful Whether You’re There Or Not
So many of my childhood experiences have defined my current understanding of the way the world works. One of them — seeing water coming to a boil for the first time in a glass pot — is the perfect analogy to illustrate how to grow a business without sacrificing quality of life. Today I run…
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3 Business Principles To Keep Clients Coming Back
[contentblock id=mmp-3] I’ve always been interested in business organization and structure, especially organizations like ours that provide learning and transformation. Since we founded Strategic Coach over 25 years ago, I’ve looked to them for examples of how to keep clients coming back. One that I always look back to and that I was a part…
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One Thing Every Entrepreneur Needs: Community
It can be lonely at the top, even for entrepreneurs. You started on this career path because you felt differently about work, success, and freedom than most others. But in removing yourself from the business “norm,” you might now feel alienated because of the very things that motivated you to go out on your own.…
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Create An Exceptional Experience You Can Put Any Price On
[contentblock id=mmp-3] I grew up in the late 1940s and early 1950s on a farm where there was always enough money for food, clothes, and the other necessities of life, but beyond that, life was simple. My family and all the other families I knew were working class people who had gone through the Great…
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How Entrepreneurs Can Develop Their Growth Mindset
Your future is your property. Because, by definition, it hasn’t happened yet, it only exists in your mind. Therefore, to be successful, and own your future, you must always make it bigger than your past. When many people come to the natural end of their working life, they often believe they have a lot more…
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How To Simplify Your Life And Multiply Your Results
[contentblock id=mmp-3] If you’re a fellow entrepreneur, you know that the entrepreneurial world is very, very different from the world of corporate and institutional bureaucracies. But even though the vast majority of entrepreneurs know this, I’ve observed that most still try to run their businesses using bureaucratic concepts and ways of doing things. It’s understandable…