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Altitude – How High Can You Reach?

   So it’s June, Already!  The secondary schools close today until September, the long leisurely days of the summer stretch before us and we could just roll through and allow the silly season to start early in our business.Instead, let’s talk instead about the ALTITUDE of our goals for the next 3 months.90 days, less 14 […]

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Longitude

   The deeper I go into this series of blogs on “itudes”, the more it reveals to me.Longitude follows Latitude, as night follows day, and nothing is truly positioned without knowing the accurate longitude.This is calculated by the position of the sun and a chronometer – a very accurate timepiece. (Actually, all of this is done […]

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Fortitude

   Month 2 of our new series brings me to a word I remembered from my confirmation back in 1973. They told me it was something I might get on the spot as a gift.  It took a long time before I began to experience it. It’s an old word, rarely used now, but it is […]

ardu_business_person

“If you always do what you always did…”

   Last month I wrote about Attitude to business, life and success.I want to build on that theme over the next few months.So I’ve invented a word to describe my thoughts on  The attitude of Strategy – Strattitude.Where we have to start, is by asking three strategic questions:What do I want to achieve over the next […]

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A Change of Mind for 2017 – Attitude

   ON THE ONE HAND:We have the things we always did, that always worked, so as general Patton said: “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it”.ON THE OTHER HAND:We have new ideas, but they are untried. We don’t know if they will work. And up the middle is FEARFear of letting goFear of ChangeFear of it not […]