by Jim Schleckser | Dec 26, 2017 | Entrepreneur, Leadership, Management
There is common link between your leadership style, call it your personal leadership brand, and the kind of brand relationship you have with your customers. Namely, you have a choice to make: do you want to be respected or loved? Let me explain. Let’s start by...
by Jim Schleckser | Nov 27, 2017 | Leadership
Be the Boss Being the leader of a business isn’t always glamorous. More often than not, your time is going to be spent figuring out where your company went wrong. In the book Great CEOs Are Lazy (Inc. Original Imprint, 2016), leadership consultant Jim Schleckser...
by Jim Schleckser | Oct 10, 2017 | Business, Compensation, Culture, Decision Making, Entrepreneur, Leadership
There are many parallels in running a business and running your life – especially when it comes to deciding whether to throw time or money at solving a problem. The there is a catch in knowing when and how to value your time over money. For example, when...
by Jim Schleckser | Jul 20, 2017 | Entrepreneur, Growth, Leadership, Sales
When you’re trying to do business with someone in a way where ultimately you’d like him or her to purchase something from you, there is a little secret you can use to vastly improve your success rate. It all comes down to following a simple sequence: tell,...
by Jim Schleckser | Jun 14, 2017 | Leadership
No Stuff is the “Small Stuff” Kids and employees have an amazing ability to pick up when our behaviors don’t match up with our words. For those of you who are parents, you will be all too familiar with the fact that we tend to say one thing, but do...
by Jim Schleckser | May 24, 2016 | Decision Making, Delegation, Entrepreneur, Leadership, Management
Anyone who has kids or spends any time with them knows what I’m referring to. Inevitably, you will get to a point where a young child learns to express him or herself by being very vocal about what they don’t want to do. You know what happens, too, when...