Having Your Best Interview Ever Here’s one of the best business and success tips I can ever give you: If you want to have a great job interview, start with great research. The Common Mistake You see, the problem is that most people start preparing for an interview by trying to think up answers to … Continue reading The Key To Nailing Your Next Job Interview →

Sad Reality and Sheep The sad reality of most people is that they rarely invest a significant amount of time building a plan for their success, career or anything else of significance.  Rather, like sheep they meander from day to day, relationship to relationship, job to job without any real direction. Playing Life On Defense … Continue reading The Most Important Thing For Career Success →

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho Fear Kills After spending almost 25 years in corporate America at Fortune 500 companies, I’ve noticed that the biggest thing that halts success has nothing to do with skill or talent, but fear.  Most people in … Continue reading How To Overcome Fear and Insecurity →

Hey. I Have A Great Idea….. Roughly 15 years ago I was involved in a project that was supposed to be a phenomenal hit.  We had it all figured out: 12 Week Promotion Offer Customers A Brand New Offer Every Week Featuring A Highly Desirable Item At An Insanely Low Price Integrated Web based advertising … Continue reading Understand The Customer – The Most Important Thing In Any Business →

Problems Suck Let’s not play ridiculous word games about problems really being opportunities in disguise.  That’s B.S. and we all know it. Problems suck.  They suck a lot.  Big problems suck a WHOLE lot.  However Let’s Be Grateful Despite the misery of problems, we should be grateful they exist (no, I’m not back to word … Continue reading Problems Suck. Here’s How To Deal With Them →

Can Somebody Explain Integrity? “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” ― Oprah Winfrey Everybody’s Buzz Term It would be hard to find a major company in the United States that doesn’t have integrity as one of its core values.  Likewise, most senior … Continue reading Can Someone Explain Integrity? →

Are You Scared Of Monsters? Let me ask you a question: Are you scared of monsters?  I’m not talking about the “monster under your bed” kind we all feared as a kid.  No, I’m talking about a much bigger and much scarier monster-your goal.  You know the one I’m talking about.  That big hairy, audacious … Continue reading The Secret To Hitting Your Goals-No Matter How Big →

Vision: “The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. VISION will ignite the fire of passion that fuels our our commitment to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to achieve excellence. Only VISION allows us to transform dreams of greatness into the reality of achievement through human action. VISION has … Continue reading Success Requires Vision →

How Do You Fix A Train Wreck? Ten years ago I had to SWOT one of my best friends.  This was a guy I had grown close to after college and spent a fair amount of time with.  For this reason I was absolutely blown away when he approached me one day with a plea … Continue reading SWOT Yourself To A Better Life →

Underestimated From Day One  The defensive coach looked at me as I stood in line with all of the other new players attending the first practice of the new college football season.  “Where did you come from?” he asked.  I explained who I was and his only response was: “It must be a mistake.  I … Continue reading Celebrate Being Underestimated →