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What Are The Five Keys To Using Goals The Right Way?
By Brett Fox at www.brettjfox.com Where have we all seen this movie before? You hire someone, or better yet, you promote someone to a senior position. Let’s say you just promoted someone to become COO. That’s the end of the story, right? Just set it and forget it. If only it were that easy. One…
Read MoreWhat’s The Right Way To Ask For A Promotion?
By Brett Fox “Move up to Oregon, prove you can recruit engineers, and then we can talk about promoting you,” the CEO told me. This was not how it was supposed to go. “Promote me first, so you have skin in the game,” I responded. That seemed more equitable to me. We had just acquired…
Read MoreHow To Focus Your Business So You Win
By Brett Fox at www.brettjfox.com “I don’t care about how many new customers you added this month! Why isn’t revenue going up?” One board member asked me during a board of directors meeting. The company was adding customers at a fast pace, but revenue was not where we wanted it to be yet. We were…
Read MoreHow Do You Interview People And Get The Right Candidate Every Time?
By Brett Fox at www.brettjfox.com The minute we made Tom (not his real name) an offer I knew we had made a mistake. There was just something off about Tom. I was under pressure from the board to hire Tom, and I let the pressure cloud my judgment. What a f***ing mistake! I could have…
Read MoreHow Can You Keep Your Customers For A Lifetime?
I used to hate January. The parking lot at the health club was overflowing. It took forever to find a space to park the car if I could find a space at all. Then the locker room would be crowded with too many people too close together. Finally, the equipment, the treadmills, and the bikes…
Read MoreHow Can You Overcome The Death Of A Dream? A Four Step Guide
My dream died at 5:42PM on February 3, 2014. My dream was the biggest dream I had ever dared to dream. I had worked successfully toward my dream for twenty years. Then my dream was gone in an instant. The death of my dream was, and is, the most devastating event I’ve ever had to…
Read MoreWhat Are Black Swan Events And Why Are They So Important?
By Brett Fox at www.brettjfox.com My wife is a Black Swan. At least to me she is. And she’s the Ultimate Positive Black Swan at that. Then again, the popularity of the internet, the tool I am using to communicate with you at this very second, is a Black Swan too. The stock market crash…
Read MoreWhy Learning To Delegate Is Critical To Your Success
“You are the biggest delegator I have,” my boss said to me during my annual review. Usually, I would take this as a compliment. Not this time. In fact, this was the worst review I ever had in my career. I thought I was doing really good work turning the division around. Order had been…
Read MoreWhat Is The Best Advice You Can Ever Get? 21 Rules To Live Your Life By
I woke up this morning with a big smile on my face. I know everything will work out. In fact, everything already has worked out. [Do you want to grow your business? Maybe I can help. Click here.] I look out the window, and it’s a beautiful sunny day. I see trees everywhere. There is…
Read MoreWhat Is The New Helping Economy And Why It Is Important To You
By Brett Fox at www.brettjfox.com The world has changed seemingly overnight. Job security? Forget it. That’s a thing of the past. The idea of lifetime employment is gone forever. Less than 10% of all companies in Japan (a country where lifetime employment used to be the norm) offer lifetime employment. A person starting their career…
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