Success
APRIL 4, 2023
My mentor, Earl Shoaff, got me started on mine. I said to myself, I hope my phone doesn’t ring, because I won’t sign the note this time. My phone never rang. This article was published in December 2016 and has been updated. We all need to build a good library. Shoaff asked me, “Doesn’t that title intrigue you?
Success
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
I make it clear to clients that we don’t work together on weekends, and I don’t respond to texts or phone calls after 7 p.m. In turn, they served as business mentors to me; the senior partner is much older and more experienced than I am. This article appears in the March 2016 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated.
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Success
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
When I started working for Bell System—the universal phone monopoly at the time—a manager told me I could have a job for life supporting the payphone business. Many have volunteered as mentors or coaches, even when it’s not part of their jobs. This article was published in November 2016 and has been updated. They adapt.
Success
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
If you’re a coach, consultant or mentor to a Friend-type leader, the best way you can help is by holding them accountable for accepting the reality that it’s lonely at the top—whether that’s in the CEO seat or as a leader of a team within a larger organization. Copyright 2016 by Jonathan Raymond. Do you know what I mean?”.
Office Organization Success
DECEMBER 1, 2016
Examples of this are granting a discount on a product once the discount period has expired, dropping your fees to get the client, or scheduling regular phone calls outside of your normal business hours. Invest in a product, program, coach, consultant, or mentor that will help you achieve your goals. You will get there much faster.
Success
MARCH 31, 2023
Block out specific times to initiate phone calls, personally take incoming calls and meet people in person. Seek out and converse with a successful role model and mentor. This article was published in February 2016 and has been updated. Memorize and repeat this motto: “Action TNT: Today, Not Tomorrow.”
Success
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
When Robert Hartwell first launched The Broadway Collective , a musical theater academy, in 2016, he worked at the kitchen table with his assistant. In the early days, he would open the phone book and call every theater and dance company in the city to promote his drop-in classes. Believe in the power of hard work. Most hung up on him.
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