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“We want to inspire a change in the social currency to be not one of status or prestige, but one around what it is that we’re doing for others…we think a lot can happen from making small everyday changes or actions.” – Cory Ames, CEO of Grow Ensemble Using Business as a Force for Good...
“There’s 10.1 million positions open [in the post-COVID workforce], there is this great resignation, a great reconsideration: What am I doing? Do I feel attached to my company? Do I feel like I have purpose?” – Mike Sullivan, CEO of the LOOMIS Agency The 7 Elements of Great Culture The pandemic changed the landscape of...
“Ultimately, I decided I just wanted to create the kind of place that people want to work on Monday morning – they want to come, there’s no Sunday night dread. And again, it doesn’t mean that it’s perfect. But what it does mean is that we’re focused on the right things.” – Mike Sullivan, CEO...
He says look forward to getting old. He says keep changing, you just get more who you really are. – Roger S. Keyes, Hokusai Says Podcast art: The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai The Art is the First Iteration. We take it from there. The poet reminds us that art is a...
“Look at sales in a very simple definition – that is delivering value for what someone needs. If you look at sales in that light, that’s a very noble profession. It starts with helping make sure that companies have the right people in their organization and Sales[people] who have the right knowledge, mindset, approach, cultural...
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor Frankl Unlocking our freedom from within When we think of independence, we often think of it as an external event, like Juneteenth...
“When we’re blending, we felt in lockstep, we were in flow. Perhaps we even felt like the conversation was a nice dance. We felt open, connected with, ‘gotten’…When we are able to blend, we have stronger relationships that are based on deeper trust.” ‘Blend’ to build stronger relationships In a society that seems to...
“Our embodiment is our extraordinary ability to put complex actions and interactions on autopilot. So that what comes next, or how to respond, becomes second nature… I’m talking about the body as a reflection of the person who lives within it.” -Amanda Blake, Your Body is Your Brain Embodiment, Learning and Leadership Amanda Blake is...
“When we connect to our own energy and life force, we’re actually connecting to the big energy out there in the world…And this is the venue, the entry point into connecting with all the rest of life around us.” – Mark Mooney Connect with your body, connect with the world According to Mark Mooney, the...
“If we insist on being buttoned up, polished professionals, that gets us a certain distance in our business lives. But showing up as a human being and being willing to relate to our clients and our colleagues as human beings, not just as professionals, gets us 10 times further.” – Andrea Howe Strong connections build trust...
“The goal of most sales books and training programs is to get more sales. The goal of trust-based selling is to help the customer…The paradox is that if you abandon attachment to the sale as the goal and instead do the sale as a fortunate byproduct, you’ll actually do better.” – Charles H. Green The...
“Think of virtual distance as an unconscious sense of social and emotional detachment that starts to grow. As we use more and more computer-mediated communications, it shows up as changes in our behavior because we don’t feel as close to people, but we may not realize that it’s happening to us.” – Dr. Karen Lojeski...
