“What? A virtual event? Nah, no way.” “I can’t stay focused on a zoom training for that long.” “I actually want to meet the other attendees, one-on-one, and in real time.” “The networking is a big part of the value for me.” If you think any of those thoughts… I get it. Those were my exact thoughts about virtual events… UNTIL. UNTIL this happened to me. Let me tell you about it… I paid big bucks to attend an Oxford Innovation Conference for business leaders and cutting edge thinkers. It was scheduled to be in-person towards the end of last year. Well, of course, due to corona lockdowns… It HA ..read more

Unlike the board game… where you are subject to the spin of the wheel and just doing as you are instructed… to win in actual life, you need to grow skills, so you get better and better at the game… and learn effective strategies that will give you leverage and advantage. Today, let’s discuss taking an offensive approach to the building of a business enterprise, organization, or career. I’m not sure if my bias to attacking an opportunity or problem with aggressive offense was imprinted in me by being raised by a hard-nosed University football coach… or by baptism-by-fire early in my business ..read more

Unlike the board game… where you are subject to the spin of the wheel and just doing as you are instructed… to win in actual life, you need to grow skills, so you get better and better at the game… and learn effective strategies that will give you leverage and advantage. Today, let’s discuss taking an offensive approach to the building of a business enterprise, organization, or career. I’m not sure if my bias to attacking an opportunity or problem with aggressive offense was imprinted in me by being raised by a hard-nosed University football coach… or by baptism-by-fire early in my business ..read more

I ask these questions of the business leaders who attend my business masterclass… How many would agree with one or more of these statements: Employees today are not as productive as they were 20 years ago. Left to their own devices, employees will get actively disengaged. There aren’t many real A-players who are available out there. Then I explain: That’s a false belief. You just have the wrong process. It comes down to your hiring and training process. Spending time with the co-founder of The Ritz-Carlton Hospitality group I was surprised when he told me, QUOTE: “Our Ladies and Gentlemen ..read more

I ask these questions of the business leaders who attend my business masterclass… How many would agree with one or more of these statements: Employees today are not as productive as they were 20 years ago. Left to their own devices, employees will get actively disengaged. There aren’t many real A-players who are available out there. Then I explain: That’s a false belief. You just have the wrong process. It comes down to your hiring and training process. Spending time with the co-founder of The Ritz-Carlton Hospitality group I was surprised when he told me, QUOTE: “Our Ladies and Gentlemen ..read more

I want you to clear the calculator from yesterday, forget about the tasks you have to do later today, and be FULLY present with me here these next few minutes. Okay? Cool… Today, I want to expose the jig. Everyone thinks that those they see on the covers of magazines, make it to the FORBES 400 list or watch on Bloomberg’s ICON show have some sort of superpowers or something… Some innate genius or supernatural powers that allows them to be more disciplined than you… that they have more self-control, resolve or fortitude than you. Well the jig is up… they don’t. At all. What they have is a jig ..read more

I want you to clear the calculator from yesterday, forget about the tasks you have to do later today, and be FULLY present with me here these next few minutes. Okay? Cool… Today, I want to expose the jig. Everyone thinks that those they see on the covers of magazines, make it to the FORBES 400 list or watch on Bloomberg’s ICON show have some sort of superpowers or something… Some innate genius or supernatural powers that allows them to be more disciplined than you… that they have more self-control, resolve or fortitude than you. Well the jig is up… they don’t. At all. What they have is a jig ..read more

Today I am going to address a question that came in from a DarrenDaily member who asked, “We’ve had to make many changes due to the challenges of COVID and the economy… how do I know when it is time to cut people from my team?” Okay, this is a big question… and without having more details, all I can suggest with this little information is to test them… Kinda like God asked Gideon to test his troops. There is a story from the Bible that went something like this… So, there’s this guy Gideon. He is selected by God to be the leader of the Israelites and to free the people of Israel from those wh ..read more

Today I am going to address a question that came in from a DarrenDaily member who asked, “We’ve had to make many changes due to the challenges of COVID and the economy… how do I know when it is time to cut people from my team?” Okay, this is a big question… and without having more details, all I can suggest with this little information is to test them… Kinda like God asked Gideon to test his troops. There is a story from the Bible that went something like this… So, there’s this guy Gideon. He is selected by God to be the leader of the Israelites and to free the people of Israel from those wh ..read more

There’s a great plague that has propagated throughout our culture the last 50 years… concocted by the PMA movement in the 1970s – the Positive Mental Attitude movement… which gave birth to what is called the modern “self-help” industry today… which has bloomed into a full-flung plague that is virally spread and expanded every day, all day on social media… It is the fairy tale that if you just think happy… think positive… happy and positive things will happen for you. That’s horse pucky. And a lie… one that is hurting you and actually stunting your growth. If you are unhappy with your current ..read more