7 Leadership Lies You Need to Stop Believing
Leadership keynote speaker Mark Sanborn explains seven leadership lies that you need to stop believing to become a better leader.
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Five Things your Employees Hate that They Won’t Tell You
Mark Sanborn, keynote leadership speaker, explains five things you might be doing that your employees hate (but won’t tell you about).
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Purpose Powers Your Potential
Success with Significance Your purpose is essential to pursuing your potential. If you want to be everything you can be, you need a compelling reason, and that is your purpose. It takes a strong why to power the what and how. D. L. Moody said that our greatest concern in life should be to succeed…
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The Map to Your Potential
Potential: we all have it. Some pursue their potential, and others are content with simply getting by. Some think they are as good as they’ll ever be, and others keep striving to get better. Are you committed to pursuing your true potential? Our research shows that 58% of people have a commitment to getting better,…
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How Leaders Get Better Every Day (and Why They Should)
Will tomorrow be better for you than today? Or will today be as good as your life ever gets? Let’s pretend for a moment that you heard directly from God, and the message was: You’ll never be any better than you are right now. Tomorrow won’t be terrible, but you will be a little less…
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60 Leadership Lessons Learned from 60 Years of Living
I wrote down 60 of the most important leadership lessons I’ve learned in my 60 years of living to share with my sons. In the blog, I share them with you, too.
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Increased Sales Beats Clever Ads
Don’t aim for clever advertising. Aim for advertising that sells more.
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Two Questions That Determine Every Successful Leader’s Day
There are two important questions that determine the success of every leader’s day. Ineffective leaders don’t deliberately consider either question. Effective leaders keep both questions top of mind: What results do I want to achieve? How do I want to achieve those results? The first question sets the agenda for both the leader and the…
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The Only Thing Worse Than Being Bored
Obviously, being bored is no fun. I’ve never met anyone who aspired to boredom, but it happens. Some even readily admit they are bored. When my boys were younger, I told them that boredom was a choice, not a condition. There are too many interesting things in the world to make boredom an inevitability. But there…
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The Attention Grab
I started a new novel and it grabbed me in the first two pages. That’s why I kept reading. The opening scene of a movie was exciting. That’s why I kept watching. I heard a speaker who made an opening statement I found intriguing. That’s I kept listening. Here is the key to powerful communication: instantly grab…
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