by Scott Anderson | Jun 26, 2017 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Uncategorized, Workplace Issues
Matthew Kimberley is my coach. I don’t know of anyone who is more expert when it comes to sales and marketing. While I hate to use the over worn term ‘guru,’ if there is anyone who should be called a Sales Guru, it’s Matthew Kimberley. Recently, I...
by Scott Anderson | Jun 12, 2017 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Leadership, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
Last week I wrote about Jeff Bezos’ annual letter to shareholders. Most of us in business look forward to reading this missive from the 4th richest person in the world (at last count). He reiterated his philosophy of Day 1 vs. Day 2 thinking, which so far has served...
by Scott Anderson | Jun 5, 2017 | Essential Reading, Leadership, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
The 20th Amazon shareholders letter written by Jeff Bezos is an annual business must-read. Also worth your time is a good article on Bezos’ letter by Suneel Gupta, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. One of the themes that Bezos...
by Scott Anderson | May 22, 2017 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
What are the main distractions that cannibalize your day, and how much of every day is spent/wasted on them? Nobody else will protect our schedules for us, so we have to do it ourselves. Here are some tools that can help: Rocks, Pebbles, and Sand Almost everyone has...
by Scott Anderson | May 15, 2017 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Leadership, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
An article in the January-February issue of the Harvard Business Review covered one of my favorite topics: Trust in the workplace. In “The Neuroscience of Trust,” Paul J. Zak addresses new research which shows the highest trust workplaces are also the highest...
by Scott Anderson | May 12, 2017 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Personal Enrichment, Playing Big, Uncategorized
In last week’s post, we talked about why waiting—putting off our goals and dreams until some arbitrary future date—is often a waste of precious time. Sometimes, all we need is to look at things in a completely new way. A few years ago I had a great coach named...
