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The following is from “What’s the Big Idea? How One Idea Can Change Your Business and Your Life” by Mac Anderson This is the second part of this series. Check out the first part here! 6. The ‘Devil Is in the Details’ Everyone knows that if you eat at a McDonald’s in New Jersey or…

The following is from “What’s the Big Idea? How One Idea Can Change Your Business and Your Life” by Mac Anderson You can see the second part of this series here! There’s no one-size fits all for entrepreneurs. Some, like Jeff Bezos, get their Big Ideas for launching a business early in life. Others, like…

The following excerpt is from “The Power of Discipline: 7 Ways It Can Change Your Life” by Bryan Tracy There is perhaps no area of your life where self-discipline is more important than in the way you manage your time. Time management is a core discipline that largely determines the quality of your life. Peter Drucker says,…

The following excerpt is from “The Power of Teamwork: Inspired by the Blue Angels” by Scott Beare and Michael McMillan Successful teamwork starts at the top with qualified leaders who provide strategic vision, and establish team goals and priorities. Team leaders don’t micromanage-they empower and inspire individuals to accomplish the stated objectives. Successful leaders embrace the…

The following is an excerpt from “The Butterfly Effect: How Your Life Matters” by Andy Andrews He was a thirty-four year old schoolteacher, but on the hot, humid day of July 2, 1863, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was in the fight of his life. A former professor of rhetoric, he was now a Colonel in the…

The following is an excerpt from “You Can’t Send a Duck to Eagle School, and Other Simple Truths of Leadership,” by Mac Anderson I’ve lived in Chicago for the past 30 years, and as you might expect, I’m a huge Chicago Bears fan. Over the past few years, I watched one man emerge as the leader of…

This excerpt is taken from “The Right to Lead,” by John C. Maxwell. When U.S. Army General H. Norman Schwarzkopf was a colonel, he commanded the First Battalion of the Sixth Infantry, a unit previously known as the “worst of the sixth” but which he turned around with strong leadership. After he improved the battalion, it…

The following is an excerpt from “What It Takes To Be Number One” by Vince Lombardi and Vince Lombardi, Jr. Running a football team is no different than running a business. Results are the bottom line. What running any organization comes down to is the consequences that are brought about by your leadership. The absence…

GRATITUDE Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build up their philosophy of life. A. J. Cronin Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. William Arthur Ward…

CHANGE/CHOICE  “In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.” –Brian Tracy “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I…I took the one Less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” –Robert Frost “View change as the one constant in your life. Welcome it. Expect it. Anticipate it.”…
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