Business Keys To Success: Connection

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Steve Scott

John Maxwell in his book, “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” talks about the importance of connection. The following is an excerpt from this book. Connection For Stronger Relationships The stronger the relationship you form with followers, the greater the connection you forge—and the more likely those followers will be to want to help you. Read More

Business Keys To Success: Your Daily Attitude

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Steve Scott

One of the great discoveries of my life was that I truly do have control over my attitude. I used to play competitive tennis in high school and college. At one time, especially in high school, I was considered to be a very good tennis player. A High School Attitude When I was in high Read More

Business Keys To Success: Your Team And The Revolving Door

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Steve Scott

In any team sport, the key to sustained success is managing the revolving door of players. Players come and players go. In business it is the same. If you are leading a team, you are responsible for making sure that the revolving door is geared toward bringing in players who are better than those that Read More

Business Keys To Success: Leadership Is Empowerment

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Steve Scott

Over the years my best leaders whether it be in business, sports or volunteer organizations are the ones who practice empowerment. Leaders come in all shapes and sizes. And, even with all the online training, corporate training, business courses and business skills training developing great leadership that leads to the empowerment of others is not Read More

Business Keys To Success: Leadership

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Steve Scott

There are many definitions of leadership. One that has stuck with me is that leadership is creating in others today a future willingness to follow you into something new for the sake of something great. I believe that to be true. But let’s look for a moment of the misconceptions about leadership. Leadership? The one Read More

Business Keys To Success: Lead By Giving Others Energy

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Steve Scott

Mark Twain once said, “If you want energy go out and give it to someone else.” Over the years I have been fortunate to lead not only businesses but several volunteer organizations. The ones where we had the greatest success is where all of us were creating energy. Yet, many self-employed business owners, entrepreneurs, solo Read More

Business Keys To Success: Embrace Commitment

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Steve Scott

The world has never seen a great leader in the world or in business who has lacked commitment. If you want to be an effective leader, you have to be committed. Why? True commitment will attract Read More

Business Keys To Success: When To Make Decisions

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Steve Scott

Very often we make decisions without even thinking about the context in which we are making them. This can lead to some bad consequences. Are things going well? Are they going badly? Are you under a lot of stress? Remember there is Read More

Business Keys To Success: Discernment

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Steve Scott

“Discernment can be described as the ability to find the root of the matter, and it relies on intuition as well as rational thought. Discernment is an indispensable quality for any leader who desires to maximize effectiveness.”—John Maxwell In “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader” Maxwell goes onto talk about the value of practicing Read More

Business Keys To Success: Turn Up Your Passion

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Steve Scott

Passion certainly makes things you more interested in whatever you are involved in at the moment. When you are displaying passion in response to a person, situation or event you are definitely Read More