Setting Goals (Differently) for this New Year…
Then I did something all the goal-setting gurus don’t tell you…
Selling 3.0
Excerpted from the book on mindful business management, Business Black Belt. What if your customers already want to buy? Your job then, as a good salesperson, is to engineer the deal. Sales techniques we learned in the past are appalling and ineffective, yet many are still in use — let’s revisit the sales process…
Hiring Interview Questions Not in Anybody’s Book
Excerpted from the book on mindful business management, Business Black Belt “Hire smart or manage tough.” ~ Lou Adler, executive recruiter If you’re betting the farm on key employees, you need all the clues you can get. Here are a few questions to add to your interview repertoire. Tell me what you’ve…
Hiring the Right People
Before you hire anyone just to get something done, take some time to plan what you need done and who you need to hire. Excerpted from the book on mindful business management, Business Black Belt “There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability…
I Can’t Believe You Asked That!
Excerpted from the book on conscious entrepreneurship and business management, Business Black Belt Asking the right questions is the key to getting the most useful information and validating assumptions. First, let’s identify a simple problem most of us are afflicted with: the need to be polite. When I was a little boy, my grandmother told…
