Orchestrating Success

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future. - William Wordsworth (https://hughballou.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Profit-Compass.jpg)Here's what I found online when I asked for a definition of "profit": Simple Definition of Profit * : to get an advantage or...

Kurt Francom currently lives in Woods Cross, Utah with his lovely wife Alanna. They are blessed to have two children (girl and boy). He enjoys drawing caricatures and editorial cartoons, basketball, reading, and college football. Kurt has served as a full-time missionary (California Sacramento), an elders quorum president, executive secretary, bishopric counselor, high priest group leader, bishop...

Todd Tresidder’s background includes: * B.A. in Economics from University of California at Davis * Member of Economics Honors Society and Deans List * A ser... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tina Erwin is a retired US Navy commander, who worked 20 years for the Submarine Force, serving in a variety of leadership positions, including first female instructor in the history of the US submarine school, one of the fist female exec officers for a submarine training facility and she served as assistant Chief of Staff for Force Physical Security, anti-terrororism and law enforcement for Comma...

Transcript of the Interview with Jackie Lapin Hugh Ballou: Welcome to Orchestrating Success. This is Hugh Ballou. This episode is a... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brandon Allen is coach, speaker, strategist and founder of New Work Revolution. Allen's mission is to bring the human element to every work environment. He has coached hundreds of small business owners, the federal government and done corporate training to assist leaders to come to new levels of understanding around how to connect and impact people around them. Brandon is the host of the New Work...

Feed Your Spirit, Feed Your Body Music did not reveal all of its secrets to just one person. - Ralph Vaughan Williams   Learning from the Best Change the word "music" to leadership...to nutrition...to anything you choose. It's still true. I have learned about nutrition from many people. Many people spend their time learning about nutrition and health. On Saturday mornings, I listen to The People's...

Effective Leadership and Physical Fitness Resonate Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. - Jim Rohn   We eat to care for our body nutritionally. Bread is feeding our body. Exercise is like bread in that it sustains health. Care for your body - exercise. Research has proven how sitting most of the day is detrimental to the body. We must move in order to remain healthy. Effec...

“Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.” - W. Clement Stone Hang with the Best! Surround yourself with people who will inspire and equip you to do more than you can accomplish alone. The buzzword in some cultures is "team." Team implies a connection as a group - like "choir" or "orchestra." The group is not just...

Leaders care for the whole person "Body, mind, spirit, voice - it takes the whole person to sing and rejoice." - Helen Kemp   We are complex. We are spiritual beings in a physical body. We are multi-dimensional. Begin today to recognize the wholeness of human being, instead of human doing.   Here's my list of what's important in my day: * Prioritize and schedule action items * Eat a healthy diet *...

The Leader's Journey is a Spiritual Journey Philippians 4:8  Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Henri Nouwen has influenced my thinking.   Transformational Leadership is about self transformation as well as self developmen...

“Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.” ― Napoleon Hill   Bread for the Journey of Personal Growth The next series of sessions is about balance for leaders in the area of personal growth. Today, I'm launching a series of episodes on personal growth and personal development. Once might ca...

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Tom Poland is a Marketing Mentor who started his first business at age 24 and has gone on to start and sell four others, taking two of them international. In that time he’s managed teams of over 100 people and annual revenue of more than 20 million. These days Tom’s thing is “Leadsology: The Science of Being in Demand” which is a blended learning program that gives professional advisors a model fo...

Words, words, words. Our society is full of words: on billboards, on television screens, in newspapers and books.... With so many words around us, we quickly say: “Well, they’re just words.” Thus, words have lost much of their power. * - Henri Nouwen Transformational leaders choose words carefully. In a column that I wrote to choral conductors about words, "5 Dumb Things Directors Say to The...

Interview Transcription Hugh Ballou: Greetings, it’s Hugh Ballou. My guest today is a long-time friend and colleague, Linda Ruhland. Linda has a lot of superpowers. She’s got some unique gifts. Not alone from those gifts is her wonderful, pleasing personality and her wisdom for things that aren’t common in life. I have enjoyed working with Linda over the years and have enjoyed her insights into th...

The Art of Significance with Dan Clark Hugh Ballou: It’s Hugh Ballou. Welcome to this special edition of the Orchestrating Success podcast. My guest today is my dear friend, Dan Clark, who is a very impactful speaker. He is a primary person of influ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I once saw a reporter stop a man on the street and ask him what he thought about apathy and indifference. He responded with, “I don’t know and I don’t care!" A friend once told me, humorously, that I should be sincere whether or not I meant it. Funny, but not funny. I know people who might have this as an internal script. They tell me one thing and proceed to do another one. It’s almost like they...

The Leadership Challenge The #1 complaint I hear from leaders: that they, as leaders, do too much and their teams do too little. Leaders blame others for what they create. There is a reciprocity in over-functioning. The counter-force is under-functioning. What is over-functioning? It is micromanaging. Over-functioning is doing something for others that they should be doing themselves. If you want...

A Culture is a Reflection of the Leader, Part 2 “Perform every act in life as though it were your last.” - Marcus Aurelius, the Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD It's essential for leaders to develop skills and awareness to impact the culture positively. The leader shapes the culture with their influence and skill good or bad. This included language. Leaders Get Results with Language - Both Good an...

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. - James Allen Leaders Model What Others Should Do As a musical conductor, I know that the ensemble is a reflection of the conductor. The better we are in inspiring excellence, the better the performance is! Conductors are skilled at creating excellence. If the musicians respect th...

Leadership IS Influence We confuse authority with influence, when in fact, we must influence others to be perceived as a leader. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. - John Quincy Adams Envision the Future Everybody has a dream. Only 3 out of every 100 people will actually do something about that dream by acting on the vision. Unfortu...

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. - Martin Luther King, Jr. This is an ongoing conversation that comes up with about every organization that I work with. I find that people universally don’t understand the concept of consensus and confuse it with compromise. In fact, many leaders consider either on to be a weakness of leadership rather than a strength of a...

Sandy Papavero works with excited entrepreneurs who have a passion for their business but might not have the experience to manage the financial part of their business. Unfortunately most entrepreneurs I meet aren’t even aware that they are driving themselves into debt, or at least leaving themselves open for massive financial stresses in the future, simply because they didn’t understand the busine...

Leadership is a container, which supports healthy growth for people like a garden supports healthy growth for plants. Planting the seeds is just the beginning. The health depends on constant feeding and care. - Hugh Ballou We are leaders because we have a vision and act on that vision. Out of every 100 people who have an idea, only 3 will do something about it. Out of the 3 that act on their visio...