Author: The Strategic Coach Team
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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…
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The Spirit Of A Self-Managing Company: The Unique Ability® Team
Imagine an organization that’s designed to bring out the very best of the unique talents, skills, and energy of everyone involved. This results-oriented company promotes inspirational ideas, has measurable goals, and encourages self-motivation and teamwork. Does this sound intriguing to you? At Strategic Coach, we strive to create a workplace where everyone does what they…
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Tip Of The Week: Where To Find People Who Respect, Support, And Challenge You
Some people are initially intimidated by the idea of being in a Strategic Coach workshop, imagining that the other entrepreneurs will judge them or try to steal their ideas. They quickly come to realize that everybody is there for their own personal and professional reasons, yet they’re also passionately committed to one anothers’ success. Your progress accelerates…
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Quotable Coach: Why Pessimists Fail Twice While Optimists Leap Ahead
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To Maximize, First Choose, Then Decide.
What’s the difference? “Choose your future and then decide what part of the past gets to come along so you can maximize the present.” People often use the words “choose” and “decide” interchangeably, but this leads to confused thinking, because they actually mean very different things. Choosing is always related to the future. It comes…
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Tip Of The Week: The Job Of An Entrepreneur
As an entrepreneur, you’re never “finished.” While it’s important to measure your progress backwards from where you started (not against unachievable ideals), it’s vital to always be stretching and growing—creating an exciting future vision of how much more capable you will become. The best “experts” don’t stand still, but constantly challenge and expand their thinking—taking…
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Quotable Coach: That “Thing” You Do
We all like the idea of being free to do our own thing, but how many people can really say what their “thing” is? Your Unique Ability® isn’t your job, your education, your business, your role, or any other outside descriptor of who you are or what you do. It’s the underlying talents and inner…