In his new book, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication, John Maxwell says law number 7 is the Law of Connecting. The Law of Connecting states that communicators know it is all about others. Dr. Maxwell makes it very clear that the Law of Connecting is by far the most important idea in this book. While content and connection are…
The reason I started writing books was to move my message farther than my voice could carry it alone. I’ve always been passionate about adding value to people and helping them bring powerful, positive change to their world. Early in my career, the way I did that was through my speaking. Then one day, I was at lunch with my…
When the general manager opened the store to start a new day, she was astonished at what she found. One of the front doors was unlocked, and the alarm system had not been activated. This was not the first time the closing crew from the previous night had failed to lock up correctly, but she thought she had corrected the…
You can’t not have a culture. Every organization or organized group has a culture. We must ask whether our culture originated by design or by default. Culture is what it feels like to work or live here (that’s right, your home has a culture). According to Webster’s dictionary, culture is the shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterize an…
In January 1996, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates wrote an essay about the future of the Internet. The title of his piece was “Content Is King.” He believed the fledgling online world of the 1990s and 2000s would take a path similar to the one broadcast media had up to that point, where the people who created content would be the…
The world’s eyes have been watching Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin these last few weeks. In the days after he went into cardiac arrest on an NFL football field, Google was inundated with requests for updates on his health. We were all rooting for him while we watched his status improve; we all breathed a sigh of relief when…
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