Jan 7, 2016 | Business, Leadership, Organizational Leadership, Productivity, Self Improvement, Uncategorized, Web Applications
Even though I run a small business and consult on the highly linear topics of strategy and tactics, I am a creative. Although creativity enhances my abilities to contribute in problem solving and the aforementioned strategy and tactics, it can also manifest itself in...
Dec 21, 2015 | Advertising, Case Snippet, Fundraising, idea:Proof, Leadership, Marketing, Media, Social Media
The Opportunity & Challenge: The client, an international charity with work in dozens of countries around the world had a mature donor database but a relatively immature social media infrastructure. In the context of filling in as interim Vice President of...
Nov 6, 2015 | Business, Leadership, Marketing, Organizational Leadership
Sowing and reaping are such important principles to grasp and believe in when you are leading. In fact, I believe they are the fuel in the engine of moving anything or anybody anywhere. But first you have to believe it works. If you have ever had a vegetable garden...
Oct 29, 2015 | Business, Marketing, Organizational Leadership
The older I get the more I realize how completely self-absorbed I am. It’s terrible. I say I am self-actualized, but often that is just a fancy hyphenated word defining the phrase “really accomplished navel gazer”. At some level starting ideaPraxy a...
Sep 30, 2015 | Business, Marketing, Organizational Leadership, Self Improvement
One of the things that I find difficult about putting myself out there – like in this blog – is that I am trying to impart helpful or motivational information to inspire and maybe even positively transform people’s lives and businesses. So I put my...
Sep 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Sometimes the gap between where you are and where you want to be is large. It is comprised of several things: energy, knowledge, and perspective. But you have the most important ingredient – desire. So how do you begin to bridge this gap? Sleep, learn, reflect...
Jun 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
One of the stories I tell over and over to anyone who will listen is one from my own journey, from my days as a financial planner. I was young and awed by the barely older and widely successful financial planners speaking at the conferences I was going to. Then one...
Feb 2, 2015 | Business, Organizational Leadership, Uncategorized
Who are they? They are your prospects and your past clients. They are your network and your industry contacts. Often the challenge of a small business or even a leader in a large organization is that when business is booming, we gladly leave behind the...
Oct 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
A common theme I am seeing today in boards and charity executives is an insatiable desire to grow exponentially. With brave statements like, “If you are not growing you are dying!” Chairmen push CEOs to create budgets that represent 20 and 30% (or more)...
Jun 17, 2014 | Business, Organizational Leadership, Uncategorized
As a musician I get a kick out of those who approach me and say, “I wish I could play and sing like you.” Invariably I respond with a simple answer. “Start, take lessons, look up how to play on YouTube for free, it’s all there for the...
