Leadership

Avoiding Email Fail

Posted by on May 22, 2013

Dear Email Recipient, Please find the enclosed message where I will confidently and aggressively articulate my point of view in a way that I would never consider doing if you were...

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Social Media

Facebook: The Great Party Ends at 12

Posted by on Mar 20, 2013

  If you are reading this, I’d say the odds are pretty good that you’ve seen “The Social Network,” the 2010 blockbuster movie that gave its viewers a...

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Technology

From Idea to IPO: “Ideating 101″

Posted by on May 2, 2013

What is really new anymore? If you tell me the latest new thing, I’ll tell you what idea was innovated to create it. Tell me about Vine and I’ll tell you about...

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Guest Blog

The Next Millennial Leader – Guest Post by @jasonrepovs

Posted by on May 20, 2013

I spend a lot of time writing as a millennial in a leadership role. While truly a millennial, my experience is different than many other millennials and my age puts me closer to a...

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Recent Posts

Focus on Improving Communication in 2013

Focus on Improving Communication in 2013

Dec 31, 2012

Right now the interwebs are littered with everyone’s goals and resolutions for 2013. As we wrap up 2012, there is no better way to get the year started than to talk a little bit about what we are going to seek to do better in the year ahead. So cheers to the resolutions and may all of you accomplish everything you set out to do! I tend not to do...

Business Leaders: Would You Buy You?

Business Leaders: Would You Buy You?

Dec 26, 2012

What if I told you that there is a question about your business that you HAVE to ask yourself if you ever want to achieve your optimal level of success? Then, what if I told you that I would be willing to bet that TODAY you don’t ask yourself this question? Would you want to know what the question is? Of course you do and I’m going to tell you right...

Sales Will Not Fix Everything

Sales Will Not Fix Everything

Dec 21, 2012

One of the greatest misnomers that I hear from business owner after business owner is the belief that sales fix everything. With an unwavering conviction they will tell you how they just need to bring in more business and that will take care of everything. Before I shatter their hopes, I want to acknowledge a certain realism in the sentiment that sales fixes...

Video – New Ideas – New Results – Race to CEO

Video – New Ideas – New Results – Race to CEO

Dec 19, 2012

In the 2nd installment of this two part Video Interview with Marie Street Press owner and publisher Chris Westfall (Author of “The New Elevator Pitch”), we discuss leadership, the journey (race) to the corner office and the stories shared in my new book “The Millennial CEO.” In this conversation we cover how the millennial generation and our new...

Leadership Note To Self: What Can I Control?

Leadership Note To Self: What Can I Control?

Dec 18, 2012

  I talk about change all the time, I think it is probably because it is the challenge more than anything else that keeps me awake at night. I’m not a control freak by any means, however I am certainly not one to sit around and wait for the world to happen to me. When tough times and tough situations are presented to me I have long been one to fire back,...

Vlog: Is HR the Missing Piece in Leadership?

Vlog: Is HR the Missing Piece in Leadership?

Dec 13, 2012

In this Video Interview with Marie Street Press owner and publisher Chris Westfall (Author of “The New Elevator Pitch”), we discuss leadership, HR and my new book The Millennial CEO. At some point in this little conversation we stumble upon how HR may just be the missing piece. Listen in and tell me what you think…Is HR what is...

Know Your Business Inside and Out: An Entrepreneur’s Tale

Know Your Business Inside and Out: An Entrepreneur’s Tale

Dec 11, 2012

It is sort of an interesting life growing up the child of an entrepreneur.   The perspective that it provides seeing someone give so much to their business can really set an example for a child. Especially the dedication and commitment that a small business (or any size) owner must put into their organization to see it flourish. As an adult looking...

Are You Listening, Or Just Waiting to Talk?

Are You Listening, Or Just Waiting to Talk?

Dec 5, 2012

Is Listening a Lost Art? I’m pretty sure I could see the vein on his forehead actually start to swell as he tried his best to focus on what the customer was saying. Almost as if it would burst if he wasn’t able to speak soon, at the first pause by the customer the salesman jumped into the conversation. I could only think to myself, “so that is...

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