Author: The Strategic Coach Team
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Quotable Coach: Entrepreneurs Have Freedom Of Time
As an entrepreneur, you’re able to enjoy freedom that few people who are “captive” to a job ever will. This freedom goes in two opposite directions: “Freedom from” and “freedom to.” The “freedom from” allows you to give up more and more of what you don’t like doing and don’t do well. This gives you…
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Recognize – And Overcome – These 10 Common Obstacles To Teamwork
Most entrepreneurs like the idea of accomplishing more by teaming up with others. So what stops them? The biggest obstacles are mental ones—ways of thinking that keep you from experiencing great teamwork. But since they happen in your mind, you can transform them in an instant. See if you recognize the following teamwork obstacles in…
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Tip Of The Week: What To Do With Doubtful Thoughts
Our minds tend to act like sports commentators—except that we, the players, can hear them and get derailed by what they say. In a business context, people are justifiably wary of anything that sounds too “woo-woo” or touchy-feely, but there’s no denying that the quality of your thoughts determines what you can and cannot do…
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Quotable Coach: The Market Wants Simplifiers
Life in the 21st century is complicated. The great freedom of our age is “disintermediation” – not having large institutions standing between us and the world anymore – but this also makes the world a more confusing place. If you can bring simplicity to some aspect of others’ lives, you’ll win their gratitude and loyalty.…
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Three Tips For Dealing With Messes
As the head of an entrepreneurial organization, you attract lots of attention. Many people need your input, your direction, and your time, which might make you feel like you’re being pulled in several directions at once, keeping you from getting focused. You might also find that keeping on top of the endless stream of paper,…
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Tip Of The Week: Simplify To Multiply
When we ask entrepreneurs to imagine growing their business 10 times, they often go to one of two places: Their eyes widen with wonder — “Wow, that would be great!” — or they widen with fear, because they’re imagining all the complications and demands of their current business becoming 10x worse. Actually, if you want…
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Quotable Coach: Who Are You Trying To Be?
All of us show up with a full set of talents and inclinations. You could spent lots of time fighting your nature, or trying to become a great generalist – or you could spend that time becoming a genius. Genius, really? Yes, it’s a grandiose word, but everybody has the capacity to become a genius…
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Tip Of The Week: What To Do When Things Go Wrong
Assigning blame really does nothing to make a situation turn out better the next time — which is why we just skip that part when we’re reviewing our experiences at Strategic Coach and go straight to the part where we learn something. So many of our entrepreneurial clients have found their biggest breakthroughs in a…
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Quotable Coach: How To Keep From Getting Old
You can probably remember meeting young people who seemed old and old people who seemed young. What’s the difference? The size of their future. Current research suggests that what really makes people happy is having something to look forward to. That’s why we say to always make your future bigger than your past—it’s a recipe…