Author: The Strategic Coach Team
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Happy 25th Anniversary To Us!
You might have caught the buzz that we’ve been celebrating 25 years of the Strategic Coach Program. But did you know that it was 25 years ago on this very day, November 13, 1989, that the first Strategic Coach workshop was launched? And, as they say, the rest is history. To all the amazing entrepreneurs…
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Tip Of The Week: 25-Year Transformation One Bite At A Time
A “25-Year Transformation” is a great way to talk about a future full of breakthroughs that you and your team members can hardly imagine from where you are right now. To implement that transformation, though, create goals just for the next 90 days – goals that are a stretch, but still manageable. What should those…
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Tip Of The Week: 25-Year Transformation One Bite At A Time
A “25-Year Transformation” is a great way to talk about a future full of breakthroughs that you and your team members can hardly imagine from where you are right now. To implement that transformation, though, create goals just for the next 90 days – goals that are a stretch, but still manageable. What should those…
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Quotable Coach: Your Game + Your Rules = Wins!
As an entrepreneur, you’ve removed yourself from the restrictions and limitations of other people’s systems. Still, it’s amazing how many of us strive to meet others’ expectations and demands – or set up rigid, impossible ideals for ourselves. There’s nothing wrong with winning along the way – and it’ll give you a lot more energy…
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Tip Of The Week: What Others Need To Support Your Goals
One of the biggest revelations for entrepreneurs is that moment when you realize leadership doesn’t mean telling other people what to do, or even how to do it. Instead, your biggest responsibility is to give them a vision of where you want to go. This works on so many levels. For you, personally, it’s probably…
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Quotable Coach: Aim Beyond Passion
It’s great for people to be involved in projects that they’re excited about and personally “into.” But when people feel that what they’re doing has meaning — has a purpose — they’ll stick with it long after the excitement fades. Purpose sparks a deep sense of motivation and commitment because the task at hand doesn’t just…
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Use Your Ability To Transform
Two centuries ago, French economist Jean-Baptiste Say wrote that an entrepreneur is someone who “shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.” In other words, as an entrepreneur, you transform resources in a way that makes them more valuable than they were before. These…
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Tip Of The Week: Entrepreneurs Are Like Jack Russell Terriers
Picture a Jack Russell terrier trapped in a house all day on its own — mischievous, smart, and bored. Something precious is going to end up broken, or with its stuffing splayed across the room. Entrepreneurs are the same — only much, much more powerful, with the funds, the imagination, and the influence to wreak a…
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Quotable Coach: The Only Thing You Can Really Sell To Someone
Endless amounts of time and money are spent by marketers, advertisers, and psychologists trying to figure out how to understand and influence human behavior. Perhaps we’ll never really know why people do what they do, but there’s one thing you can always bank on in every situation: People do things for their reasons, not your…
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Tip Of The Week: The People Worth Spending Time With
As much as we might enjoy our accomplishments, a huge part of our quality of life comes from our relationships. And one of the great side-effects of success is having the freedom to choose who you interact with day-to-day –clients and customers, suppliers, and team members. There’s a special quality to people who are part…