Monthly Archives: April 2011

Are You Reading Enough?

By Howard Shore   Verne Harnish is the founder of two world-renowned entrepreneurship organizations, the Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization (YEO) and the Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs (ACE). In his recent keynote address at the Fortune Growth Summit, he made mention of …

Avoid Emotional Decision Making

By Howard Shore Too often leaders make their decisions based on emotion, and it causes them to ignore all of the facts that are put in front of them. While it is true that we often have incomplete information when …

What Impact Does Culture Change Have on Improving Results?

By Howard Shore In Cindy Krischer Goodman’s article “Culture change: Just do it” (Miami Herald, 10/6/2010), there are two examples of successful cultural transformations in progress. If you missed the article, it was about how Barbara Simmons, CEO of Plantation General …

Diagnosing the Sales Force

By HowardShore In today’s market success is all about taking market share. Often organizations do not go deep enough in their diagnosis and do not have the tools to determine why their sales force is not maximizing growth. It is …

Get Fired or Support Mediocity?

By Howard Shore I recently got fired by a client and am very pleased with that outcome. From the start, I made it clear that success (achieving their goals) would only happen if: They would actually make the changes I …

Without Motivation We Look for Reasons Not to Change

By Howard Shore Recently, a client contacted me and asked for help in moving a sales opportunity along. After careful consideration of the facts, we realized that his current circumstances left him no opportunity to get this deal. In the …

Framework for Making a Decision

By Howard Shore Do you have a good decision process in your company? Are the right people involved in the decisions? Are decisions made in a timely manner?

Mastering the Rockefeller Habits Workshop

On April 27th learn how to accelerate profitable growth using the Rockefeller Habits.  Spend the day with a Certified Senior Coach and you will GAIN: An overview of the Four DecisionsTM (Mastering the Rockefeller Habits): People, Strategy, Execution and Cash. Simple, practical and …


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