Are you Coachable? – eBook

This is a transcription of a podcast, Best Practice for Self Coaching – Leadership 901 that I had with Howard Guttman principal of Guttman Development Strategies, Inc. (GDS), a Mount Arlington, NJ-based management consulting firm. When discussing Howard’s new book, Coach Yourself to Win: 7 Steps to Breakthrough Performance on the Job and In Your Read More …

New in the Get Clients NOW! Answer Center

New in the Answer Center Here are this month’s new additions to the Get Clients Now Answer Center. (You need to have a password to log in.) Next Business901 GCN Program starts November 15th How Easy Can Marketing Be? – Article by C.J. Hayden I often speak to groups of independent professionals about what works Read More …

Thinking Process and System Thinking in Management eBook

This is a transcription of a podcast with Bill Dettmer, Senior Partner of Goal Systems International. Bill is the author of The Logical Thinking Process: A Systems Approach to Complex Problem Solving ) and Strategic Navigation: A Systems Approach to Business Strategy, two books around which Goal Systems International’s internationally renowned Thinking Process Course is Read More …

Can you be talented enough on your own

Can you be talented enough on your own? One of the tremendous powers of continuous improvement and whether you want to call it Lean, Six Sigma, Agile or even Scrum is the power of the team and collaboration. Cross-functional teams create high-bandwidth communication. It is not about individual talent, though it can help, it is Read More …

eBook on Using Introvert Tendencies as a Marketing Advantage

Joan Friedlander, owner of Lifework Business Partners was my guest on the Business901 Podcast and this is a transcription of the podcast. We had the opportunity to discuss creating realistic and executable marketing plans for self-employed service business owners and key members of a business team. One of Joan’s specialties is working with Introverts and Read More …

18 minutes with an agile mind: Clifford Stoll on TED

Clifford Stoll could talk about the atmosphere of Jupiter. Or hunting KGB hackers. Or Klein bottles, computers in classrooms, the future. But he’s not going to. Which is fine, because it would be criminal to confine a man with interests as multifarious as Stoll’s to give a talk on any one topic. Instead, he simply Read More …