Agility. If your industry is IT, for sure you deal with it every day.
Did you know that Agility is one of the 36 traits you want to possess if you are a success-driven entrepreneur? If you want to be an effective leader? If you hope to make the best decisions possible in the heat of […]
It’s summer. It’s easy to be distracted. I’m leaving on 2 back to back trips. The first is both business and pleasure. The 2nd is all pleasure. It’s been on my bucket list for a long time to visit the land of my ancestors, so I’m taking off for Eastern Europe for 3 weeks. When […]
ThinkSales™ is a company-wide program whose leaders fervently believe all employees provide value, regardless of position, power or influence in the company. These leaders follow the Pygmalion philosophy that models a predictable way of acting towards others. Taken a step further, ThinkSales extends to team behavior.
When employees view all their teammates as collaborators and seek […]
There are so many things I want to accomplish this year but I know if I don’t lay out a careful plan, few of them will happen. My years in business have taught me that the goals I set today become realities tomorrow but only IF I plan the steps it takes to make it […]
I love this time of the year.
Not only is December my birth month (enough of a reason for me to love it), it suddenly occurred to me that my son, Steve Olsher, wrote about his birthday this November and shared his battle with life and death when he was born. Both my mother and I […]
Your Pitch is your stepping stone to opportunity.
What is an elevator pitch, anyway? You can read tons of books on the subject, watch a bunch of videos, listen to pitches at networking events and, you will find, everyone has a different take on what it should be. In essence, it’s a brief statement about WHY […]
This morning I was invited to attend a networking meeting. As usual, the members introduced themselves first. The guests followed. I admit, these were some of the most creative introductions I’ve heard anywhere. As a guest I had 60 seconds to share a lifetime of work to a roomful of strangers in a way that […]
Over 30 years experience owning my own successful businesses, in good times and bad, have given me insight into why some businesses grow year after year, and others just meander along, barely making it.
When I was a partner in my father’s business, early in my career, and coached and consulted our retail franchisees, I started […]
Steve Sawyer, Ameriprise Financial and Heather Major, Plan2Grow, are on a roll. Their already successful businesses have taken on a new life of their own. There is no stopping them this year. Join them at Transformation Lab on the 1st or 3rd Tuesday in January and save. 1st session is on us.
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The holidays are around the corner. As this year comes to a close, we fervently hope that 2022 brings new beginnings, the end of Covid and a return to normalcy. May your Thanksgiving be bountiful. Sending love and gratitude to all who shared my world in 2021, and to all whom I am yet to […]
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