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Can We Kill Copy Culture?

By now I think everyone has heard of cancel culture, a form of boycott when an individual acts or speaks in a questionable manner. But what about copy culture? Copy culture can be far more dangerous for your business since it can give the illusion of transformation with little meaningful growth.

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You Need Adventure for Growth

Adventure that gets us outside our comfort zone is necessary for growth. In order to maximize your potential you have to consistently do things that push the edge.

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Pivoting is Overrated and Under-Practiced

Pivoting is overrated as a strategy and under practiced in the real world. With all the disruption in 2020, pivoting has to be one of the top words of the year and it’s only July.

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How to Make More Business Disruption a Good Thing

This latest round of business disruption from the pandemic closures might be the best thing to ever happen to you and your business. Hard times and the unexpected can and do surface at any time. It can cause what’s working to not work anymore. But there’s a way to make sure you use that disruption for breakthrough results.

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Speak Your Customer's Language

If you want to have a desired impact on the customer, you have to speak their language. Today that’s important than ever before as customers are speaking inside of chat groups, video conferences and even Tik Tok.

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Change What Works

I think Bert Lance was wrong when he said “if it ain't broke, don't fix it”. Here’s why

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The Way Through: Overcoming Your Everest

Many people dream of accomplishing extraordinary things in their lives but how many actually risk doing it? Especially if that risk is completely life threatening…

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The 7 Business Lessons I learned From the 4x4x48 Challenge

I’ve been on countless adventures, over the last several years especially; from shark diving to skydiving, from trekking the Sahara to biking Moab. The latest adventure? Doing David Goggin’s 4x4x48: running 4 miles every 4 hours for 48 hours. I’m not a runner, it wasn’t a race and I’m not training for something longer. I did it for two reasons:

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The Formula for Using "Limits" To Get Breakthrough Results

Not enough money. Not enough time. If I was a little older. Maybe in a different situation. Not until the pandemic is over... We bump into limits it seems no matter where we turn. They’re all the things that, conceptually at least, are standing between us and what we want to achieve. What if there was a formula to achieve what we want using those limits to our advantage instead of being stopped by them? Well, there is…

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The Fastest Way To Realize Results. Even During Chaos.

No matter where you’re at amidst the chaos, it’s revealing a method that has proven the first step of creating order for generations. It’s served royalty, military leaders and business leaders since the beginning of time: word. We can speak order into chaos.

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