Be honest here: How often are you so excited about your business you can’t wait to start the day? How often does just the opposite occur and you dread even the thought of going to work? Are you inspired and energized by your business or burdened by what feels more...

As I reflect on my youngest daughter’s graduation from high school, I remember the excitement in the eyes of the 240 young people dressed in their caps and gowns. No doubt, some were ready for school to be over. But others were looking forward to the next chapters of...

There’s a commonly held belief that business success is the result of selling as many products or services as possible to as many customers as possible at the highest prices possible while paying the lowest wages and material costs possible to make as much money as...

Tremendous time, energy, and effort go into running a business. With everything there is to do, it’s easy for those who own a business to sacrifice many — if not all — aspects of their personal lives in the pursuit of success. Your business is only one aspect of your...

Trust encourages loyalty in team members: If you have my back, I’ll have yours. Anytime trust between you and a team member is broken, any loyalty that existed is damaged. Once seriously damaged, it can be a lengthy process to rebuild trust. It could be impossible. ...

There’s a tendency among business owners and managers to supply answers to team members rather than take time to help them find the answers for which they’re looking.  The prevailing belief is this saves time, and it might in the short term. But over the long run,...

If your business has stalled or is failing, your health is declining or your relationships are unfulfilling, you can use your awareness of these situations to face the reality your resistance to change diminishes your happiness and success more and more each day. A...

Business leaders focused on moving their companies to ever higher levels of effectiveness, efficiency, profitability and success look for ways to improve their business models. It takes a discerning awareness of what works — and doesn’t — in the daily operations. ...

In my last column, Bring Your Best (Not Your Baggage) to Work, I discussed the problems associated with bringing personal baggage to work and how even top performers can fall when they’re unable to manage their personal issues in the workplace. I elaborated on the...

People travel between the connected worlds of the personal and professional. When there’s balance, happiness, purpose and success in life outside business, the version of themselves people take into the workplace is different than when that’s not the case. Some people...