Author: The Strategic Coach Team
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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…
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4 Painfully Obvious Communication Strategies Everyone Forgets
It’s common to talk about the need to “improve our communication,” yet people often lack practical strategies or don’t know what’s wrong or how to fix it. Communication is much more than simply transferring information—it’s a dynamic, interactive process between people who each have unique and often very different perspectives. As you interact with your…
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Tip Of The Week: Uncovering Instinctive Genius
Every human being on the planet arrives with unique natural talents and instincts, and we’re always at our happiest and most productive when given a chance to use them. It may take some time and investigation to uncover someone’s instinctive genius—but it’s there. And if you’re the one who takes interest and provides a platform…
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Quotable Coach: An Entrepreneur’s Greatest Contribution To The World
You can either be creating or complaining—but never both at the same time. As a human being, of course you’re going to have preferences that may not line up with the way things are. You can either be stopped by this and become an unhappy commentator, or you can use it as the raw material…
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Tip Of The Week: “Zero Defense Budget” Teamwork
Encourage communication and cooperation on your team. It will ignite creativity and innovation.? At Strategic Coach, founders Dan Sullivan and Babs Smith work hard to create an environment where team members can have a “zero defense budget.” Instead of squandering energy on interpersonal conflicts, we try to focus all our thought and emotion on an exciting, positive…
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Quotable Coach: What Does This Really Mean?
The best way to eliminate complexity is just to ask good questions. How many government and corporate documents would be utterly transformed if someone bothered to ask, “What do we really mean by this?” and wrote that instead? Several years ago, web designer Steve Krug released a book called Don’t Make Me Think. Internet design is always changing,…