Lisa Earle McLeod is the author of Selling with Noble Purpose, a book that basically shows how and why those whose actual purpose in selling what they sell is greater than the money…actually make more money. In a recent post she wrote: “People often ask me: How do you balance Noble Purpose with the need…
In his classic, The Science of Getting Rich, written way back in 1910, Wallace D. Wattles explained a key principle for advancement in business, regardless of where one starts or how little money or connections they begin with. One advances… by advancing (providing value to) others: “And, in so far as your business consists in…
When it comes right down to it, leadership is really a reflection of…who one is! It is about one’s character and principles. It is about one’s philosophy. I posted about John Allison in “Those With High Character Take A Stand” and in reviewing his Number One New York Times Bestseller, The Financial Crisis And The…
One of the golden rules of human nature — as so perfectly illustrated by Dale Carnegie in his classic, How to Win Friends And Influence People — is that, “Ultimately, People do things for their reasons, not our reasons.” As such, in order to elicit a person to make a decision and take the action…
He earned over $250,000 while in college selling magazine subscriptions during his summer breaks. In his 20’s he co-founded Nashville, Tennessee- based Southwestern Consulting. And, again he’s done something special. Yes, leave it to 30-something uber-successful Rory Vaden to take a subject like Time Management and turn it on its head. Actually, he equips even the…
The long-running local children’s show featured a man with a genial manner and entertaining style. He was truly one of the most beloved area personalities and hero of many a young’un, including me. So, it surprised me when — in my teens — talking with someone who’d been an audience member years earlier, he said…
The other day, I witnessed a young man say something insulting and hurtful to the person he was speaking with. I’m almost 100 percent certain he didn’t mean for it to come across the way it did…mainly because his comment appeared to have come from a total lack of any forethought whatsoever. It was thought-less…
Would the principles that make one an effective, successful and happy individual create those same results for a company, and for society as a whole? In this absolutely terrific book on leadership, the author says that yes, indeed they would. The following is from John A. Allison’s introduction to his recently-released, The Leadership Crisis And…
Yes, thoughts are things. And, each act of human creativity, every invention; indeed, all progress is preceded by thought. Thought, combined with correct action and fortified by burning desire, belief, determination, and dogged persistence is almost unstoppable. However, on another level, in this case an emotional level, let’s look at three different types of thoughts…
In his new book, The Leadership Crisis And The Free Market Cure, John Allison defines Integrity as, “the harmony of mind and body” and says that, as a principle, it “guides us to act consistently with our beliefs.” After a brief but brilliant explanation regarding how one cannot act with integrity if one’s values are…
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