Author: The Strategic Coach Team
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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…
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Tip Of The Week: Say Yes, But Clean Up The Mess
What’s a “mess”? Dan Sullivan defines it like this: M=O-C, or a Mess is Obligation minus Commitment. If you say yes to something that you don’t feel any real commitment toward, you’ve landed yourself in a mess. At some point, the “future you” is going to have to spent time and energy doing that thing…
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Quotable Coach: Plug In And Participate
Could there be a better time to be an entrepreneur looking for new and better ways to reach out, collaborate, and grow? With the invention of the microchip in 1959, human beings have continually been developing and expanding a global system of communication, collaboration, and innovation. For the first time in history, individuals, no matter where…
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Technology: Multiplier Or Menace?
We live in a technology-centric world. It’s become part of our everyday personal and business lives, our reality. For entrepreneurs, technology can be an extremely useful tool, or it can leave us feeling left behind, in The Gap, and overwhelmed. But by shifting your thinking about technology, you can simplify complexities, gain an advantage over your competition,…
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Quotable Coach: Sometimes, You Climb A Tree
Gary Klaben is a highly successful entrepreneur and one of our Associate Coaches, but before rejoining civilian life, he was part of a specialty branch of the U.S. Army. Out on exercises one day, his group found themselves completely lost. Comparing map and compass to the flat terrain just confused them more. So Gary asked…