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Tag Archives: strategic margin
3 things keeping you from more margin
There are three things keeping you and me from creating more margin in our lives.
How your prized responsiveness is robbing your future
Your future is at stake. So is mine. Every day a bit of it is squandered by a culturally prized attribute: our responsiveness. Ask yourself these questions: How many emails can be in my inbox before I begin to ...
Introducing Strategic CEO and the Strategic Margin Workshop
Is it possible to increase your strategic capacity? To think more creatively and strategically about your business and life? Over the last several years I’ve been coaching executives to do that very thing. This week I launched the StrategicCEO.com website ...
How structure helps you create what matters most [podcast]
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What do we rely upon daily to reach our goals but seldom notice? Structure. Structure is our internal and external support system. It’s the processes and people we depend upon to be successful, but we seldom pay attention to ...
How reciprocal networking increases your strategic opportunities [podcast]
Marketers know the law of reciprocity. Give something away and the receiver is inclined to reciprocate in some way. It’s not a new concept. Jesus talked about it with His disciples. Yet, so many of us still in engage ...
How anyone can unleash the power of delegation [podcast]
Delegation. That word needs to come out of the corporate box and into our everyday lives. For when we transform the way we think about it, moving from the act of delegating tasks to developing a delegative mindset, we ...
Why you need strategic margin [podcast]
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Benjamin Franklin once said, “Never confuse motion with action.” It’s easy to get consumed by things to do—but is all that motion taking you to the somewhere you want to go? Earlier this week I had the opportunity to ...
Announcing the Strategic Margin Clinic: August 11-13
Someone you know needs more strategic margin. It may be you. As I’m calling it, strategic margin is that space you make to think strategically about your pursuits. Strategic thinking is not something you do once a year. Rather, it’s a mindset, cultivated ...
