Do you over lose sleep over a problem client or a situation at the agency? When this happens, who do you talk to for advice or input? When you’re the one in charge, whether it’s for a team or an entire organization, you may have limited people you can really share or vent those problems with. And …
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This thing called EI and why it’s important.
Emotional Intelligence, yes, it’s a “thing” and more importantly, it’s something that good leaders tend to have in spades. Do you have strong EI? How do you find out? A gentleman named Daniel Goleman first brought the term Emotional Intelligence to a wide audience with his 1995 book of …
Do you know where success starts? The power of a simple belief…
Have you ever had a belief that you could accomplish something that no one else thought was possible? Did you make it happen? What made it possible? My guess is that if you believed you could do something and you believed it in the bottom of your heart, you made it happen. And it may not …
What do you do when you’re running on empty?
Do you ever feel depleted, like your tank is just empty? Sometimes, it happens because of things that are going on in your life outside of work, but sometimes, the work itself doesn’t feel rewarding or fulfilling. Or you may just be in a bit of a funk in general. It happens to the best of us. …
What is the essence of the problem?
John Strandberg, my dad, was an advertising man like no other. He had this typeset quote from Marshall Ferninand Foch, a French General during World War I, on his wall above his desk. It read "De quoi s'agit-il" and the translation is "what is the essence of the problem?" During my many years in …
Leaders are made not born
“I have learned so much about the business but I have never been taught how to lead.” This is a real quote from a real client who runs multiple large pieces of business at an agency. Learning the business is different than learning to lead others You may run an advertising agency and have …