CorporateCoach

Some time ago I asked you to support us in a campaign to get The Law of Business Attraction into an Amazon top ten best seller category. We succeeded in several categories and I thank you for your cooperation.
There was a distribution problem with some copies from Amazon – if you had a problem, [...]

In the last issue of CorporateCoach I included my Demartini inspired mission statement summary.
I had been able to develop this as a result of seeing John Demartini’s own mission statement, and my example last week was well received.
This week, therefore, I am repeating the exercise.
For several years I was tempted to write some [...]

The Sporting Conundrum: Chasing the Dream, by Krishna Kumar
Roger Federer shedding a tear is now passé. He did it after losing an epic final to bête noire Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon last year. He came close to it at this year’s Australian Open while losing again to the World Number 1. But, why did Federer [...]

I once heard talent defined as: “Easy to learn, easy to do.”
The result is that you do not value it, or even notice it. So, I have another definition. “Talent is what causes you to get irritated by other people’s incompetence.” It is not that they are incompetent, rather that they lack your [...]

You may know that I am the UK’s Wealth Dynamics Master Practitioner for business coaching. Wealth Dynamics is a really powerful profiling system for entrepreneurs and businesses – and there is much more to it if you use it as a coaching tool.
My colleague Nick Haines, who has 30 years experience of Chinese [...]

What is inspirational leadership? – asks Stefan Powell.
If we accept that leadership is about “influencing people to make big things happen” where does this start?
A vision should be inspirational, compelling and should describe a positive and successful future, drawing on all of the senses to bring it to life and to make others want [...]

I have been watching a programme called Mary Queen of Shops.
It is about a project by Mary Portas to turn a charity shop into a successful business. She comes up with a variety of strategies to change both the image of the shop and the business model.
However, what was interesting to me was [...]

I am sure that many of you are aware that I specialise in working with directors and boards.
So, when the Institute of Directors published another book on directorship, I obtained a copy for review – actually I bought one.
‘The Effective Director”, by Neville Bain, the current chairman of the IoD. It is an excellent and [...]

Stefan Powell and I have been writing a proposal that includes training sales teams.
This is a good reminder to refer back to Sharon Drewn Morgen’s book: Buying Facilitation®: The New Way to Sell that Influences & Expands Decisions. I believe that this is one of the best texts on sales that is available.
If you [...]

Do You Know Any Experts Looking For a Non-Fiction Publisher That Pays Up to 40%?
Some of the foundation work for the current Brefi Group website was done by Joe Gregory. Since then he has established his own very successful Internet business, the Lean Marketing Press.
Joe’s goal for 2009 is to publish 60 new books. He [...]