One of the powerful features of technology is the ability to refresh or restart whenever needed. It cleans up the mess and starts everything over fresh. It would be nice to have a refresh button on our lives sometimes. For many years, I have used the first week of December to be my Annual Refresh […]
Personal Productivity - Part 2 Before attempting to think about the future of your business, it is often necessary to clean up all the clutter collected from the past. In this podcast we discuss a simple method to eliminate all the mess.
In this new edition, I present the material covered in my popular 2-day workshops conducted in over fifty financial service firms across the U.S. and Canada. I begin with the importance of advocacy-based marketing in contrast to solicitation. Next, I walk you through the all-important First Conversation, which establishes the trust necessary to build deep […]
WHAT IS WRONG WITH GDP? Since its introduction during World War II as a measure of wartime production capacity, the Gross National Product (since changed to Gross Domestic Product — GDP) has become the nation’s foremost indicator of economic progress. It is now widely used by policy makers, economists, international agencies and the media as […]
If you would like a replacement for your planner, cell phone, pager, palm pilot, blackberry, note pad, digital voice recorder, pocket camera, local cyber cafe, and maybe even your computer, look no further. Palm’s Treo 650 for Palm OS may just be your answer. This handheld PDA has replaced almost all the above for me. […]
Being on the road for the past several weeks, I appreciate the value of a good book to refocus my efforts and energies. Planning comes in two varieties: top-down explained in Steven Covey’s book First Things First and bottom-up illustrated by David Allen’s book Getting Things Done. While everyone would like to start at the […]
What is happiness? In the United States and in many other industrialized countries, it is often equated with money. Economists measure consumer confidence on the assumption that the resulting figure says something about progress and public welfare. The gross domestic product, or G.D.P., is routinely used as shorthand for the well-being of a nation. But […]
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