5 Big Ideas; Closing Big Sales; Covey’s Take; Execute Faster; David Marquet

"…keeping you great" 

HEADLINES:  

How To Execute Fast
— Feb 15, 1pm ET Webcast – more below, but first…

Closing Big Deals
— entitled "5 Ways to Close Big Deals" my latest Venture Column in

Fortune
is online. Take 1 minute to scan
down the list and see if any of the 5 practical ideas can move you from talk
to contract more quickly.

5 Big
Ideas
— …5 huge trends that will impact all our businesses is the topic of my
latest February "Growth Guy" syndicated column: Return on Luck; Big Data;
Reverse Innovation; Newsjacking (Trump is the master!); and Robots/Capita.

Take 3 minutes to scan through the article. Useful list for your next
marketing meeting.

Sizeup.com
— in my column I highlight www.sizeup.com
as a way to experience the power of Big Data. Within seconds, this free site
will tell you how many competitors exist in a specific locale, how your revenues
stack up against theirs, and where to hunt for new business. Give it a try.

Create Leaders At Every Level — the only way for the senior team to free up themselves
to work on the big ideas/deals is to turn over the day-to-day running of the
company to the middle managers. David Marquet's book
Turn the Ship
Around!: How to Create Leadership at Every Level is a key – a VERY how-to execution book on how he took the
worst sub in the nuclear navy and made it #1. I named it in my

Fortune
column one of the top 5 biz books of 2012.

Stephen Covey's Take
— when you get David's book, go immediately to Stephen Covey's Foreword
(probably the last one he ever wrote) and take 4 minutes and read his insights
into what it takes to create leaders at every level and why he felt David's sub
had the most empowered team he had ever met. Then come hear David keynote the

Leadership Summit May 9 – 10 Orlando. Book club members will get a copy of
David's book next week.

Execute FastWebcast
— to executive with speed, your team must be able to make critical adjustments
weekly – if you want to move faster you MUST pulse faster. Join our
complimentary webcast with Patrick Thean, "How to Get Your Team to Execute
Faster Than Your Competition." You will learn how to: Create the right baseline
metrics; Set up a simple rhythm to get every member to share WHY they are off
track; and a structure for weekly meetings so your team can execute with speed
and make critical adjustments.
February 15th
@ 1:00pm EST


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