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How To Become Successful in Business

How To Start A Business Or, how to become successful in business: Wouldn’t you love to have the answer to this question? What if there was some magic formula you could drink and you would immediately be successful? What if there was some process you could implement that would bring you the success you’ve always […]

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How to Become a Successful Salesman

How To Be A Good Salesman It is hard to find a more successful salesman and sales manager than Wayne Lewandowski. Wayne was a client that I spent many a Monday morning 6 AM meeting talking about how he was maneuvering through the waters for greater effectiveness as a leader. While we met at 6 […]

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Why Community Works! Confession Is Good For The Soul

Ever wonder about the significance of community? In the early 1990s, a group of women who were partners in what was then Coopers & Lybrand met to form a group study. At first they gathered monthly to discuss their careers and how to provide leadership in the firm in a traditionally male-dominated industry. But after […]

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Want Joy? Thank Someone Special Today

As Karen and I sat at the kitchen table a few days following 911, we pondered all we might learn from this horrific event. We decided to make a list of the things we were thankful for. On my list was my Fifth Grade Teacher, Mr. Trantum. My workbook describes how fond I am of him. […]

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Life Lessons From My 1965 Mustang

Life lessons from my fist car purchase. When I was 15 years old I bought my first car. I didn’t have my drivers license, but from a very young age I knew I wanted something fast. I was walking home from the Kokomo Tribune press room where I had just paid my dues for my […]

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Awesome Baby! A Turning Point In My Life

I met Dick Vitale in 1999 while working as a regional VP of operations for a large pizza company. He signed the basketball pictured here because my wife died from her bout with breast cancer several months before. Diane was a trooper right up to the end. I was a wreck. Many people tried to […]

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Who Before What. What does who have to do with it?

Who before what? Really, the strategy guys will tell you what before how. When does ‘who’ enter the picture? The answer is found in discovering one’s identity. To get to this discover where values and natural ability collide! Ben Franklin said, “There are three things that are hard: steel, a diamond and to know one’s […]

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Are You Comfortable With Your Identity?

Your identity matters! You have a purpose in this creation. Do you believe you are uniquely created and have a purpose? If so, how important have you made pursuing your uniqueness? These are examples of questions that people skirt around when they reach out to me for coaching. Every One Of Us Is A Special Creation […]

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