A New Direction

W hen we think about leadership we typically think of a single person.  Some sort of top performer that leads a group of people.  However, what if is there is another way to look at it?  What if we looked at leadership by going against the grain?  Does that sound “rebel”?   The truth is we  do need a new view of looking at it.  After all we do live in a VUCA world (Volatile, Uncertain,...

Burnout is a very real condition.  Research on burnout suggest it costs companies billions of dollars in revenue as people can no longer function in their job, because they experience burnout.  How does burnout show up?  Fatigue, irritability, lack of motivation, making more frequent mistakes, not caring about the quality of your work, dread, sickness and many other symptoms.  It can be a devastat...

Most of your life you are going to be in a career.  So how many classes through out your life time did you take that truly helped you?  Well, if you are like most of us the answer is…zero.  When it comes to our career there is little to help us.  No one really talks about making a “career plan”, or the difference between “leadership and management” and how to navigate...

If your people were to be asked the following questions about your business strategy what would be their response? Can your team members give you a one or two sentence description of how your company distinguishes itself? Can they tell you the top two or three things company must be great at, or must get better at to be successful? Can they tell you how the previous two answers translate into the...

Whether you are a Business to Business company or a Business to Consumer company the fact is we all need clients.  And that means that connecting with prospective or current clients becomes  priority one.  The problem is that connecting with others is not easy.  In fact, connecting and staying connected will be one of the most difficult tasks that you will undertake in your business.  Thankfully f...

Everyone wants to be the one leading the charge, but no one wants the real responsibility that comes with it.  Leading others sounds great until you realize it is more than a title.  Leading is not about you being in charge.  Leading is about taking care of others.  Demonstrating you care.  Showing them understanding and compassion.  Leading is not about giving them fish, or philosophizing about f...

It has been said that one of the greatest fears that people have is to speak in public.  In fact, the fear of dying is less than the fear of public speaking.  And yet we also know that great leaders tend to be great public speakers.  In fact, it could be argued that it is difficult to lead without the skill of public speaking.  And there in lies the truth…it is a skill that can be learned. ...

The Proverb states, “People without a vision perish”.  Meaning that without a vision you will wander aimlessly, run wild without restraint, only to be ridiculed laughed at, and life just happens and they wind up with nothing.  Most often we think about “vision” when it comes to business, but if you don’t have a personal vision it is impossible to lead others.   Withou...

https://coachemwayup.com/about-the-authors/lynn-guerin/When it comes to undefeated teams and national championships none were more dominant than UCLA coached by John Wooden.  Considered by coaches to be the greatest coach ever John Wooden left a legacy of excellence and success.  There was no doubt that his teams were the best.  He played a team game even though he had superstars.  No one person w...

Can you quote your company’s mission statement perfectly?  Are you a leader in your company and can you quote the mission with 100% accuracy?  If you cannot well then, “Houston we have a problem.” And the problem is you and your company are out of alignment.  Your mission statement should be so ingrained that everyone in the company can not only quote it, but they understand that...

We all sell, but we all do not have sales success.  We all do business, but we all do not have business success.  Most of us bring home money and whether you do or not we all are not a financial success.  Entrepreneur extraordinaire Barry Habib has found success in all three of those areas and he built it from nothing.  He found opportunities, which led to another opportunity, which he leveraged i...

If you were raised in Northern Ireland a part of your culture is the pub.  If you are Irvine Nugent your dad owned the pub and you were raised as part of a sub-culture.  For the Irish the pub is more than a place to drink, it is a place where people gather, all people, regardless of their station in life.  It is a place where laughter and enjoyment are embodied.  The pub was the place the Irvine N...

There is no doubt as humans we were made to connect with each other.  Yet we typically overestimate our ability to connect.  We think to ourselves we are great connectors, when the truth we are superficial.  Sales people will talk about how they build “rapport”, but “rapport” is not true connecting, it is really a form of manipulation so that you can get what you want.  The...

If you are starting your own business or you have been in business for a period of time you need to check in with your branding.  When it comes to business branding is everything.  Branding is not so much about what you say it is…branding is what your customers say you are.  So here is the question:  “What do your customers say about your brand?”  Have you literally asked them? ...

Coaching is an industry all to itself.  It happens to be that I too am a part of the coaching industry.  But have you ever considered developing your own coaching within your business.  What if you could take your managers and make them coaches?  What if you could create peer to peer coaching and help your people not only succeed, but thrive, and create a sense of deeper loyalty.  On today’s...

CEO’s, Owners, Managers, if you think your meetings are awesome you are in DENIAL (Don’t Even kNOw I Am Lying).  The truth is they are tedious, unproductive, and boring.  Most of the people would rather poke themselves in the eye with a fork and go to the hospital than sit in your meetings.  Why?  Because there is no purpose behind most meetings.  They are a waste.  Secondly you demand...

Are you stuck?  Do you feel like your career is a a dead end?  Do you look at your life and say “is this all?”  We all have dreams of success.  But what keeps us from achieving it?  The first person you have to look is you?  The second thing you must do to reach success is stop blaming other people, situations and circumstances.  The fact is when studying people who have achieved succe...

It has been said, that we don’t have business problems, but we have personal problems that affect our business.  And nothing can affect your business, career, and life than relationships.  Whether you are looking for one or are in one, our significant other relationships affect our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well being.  When our relationships are great with our significant o...

Could you be more productive?  The answer is simply “yes”.  The fact is there are things in our personal and professional lives that we could be doing differently that could make us more efficient and productive.  When we think of productivity so often we think of organization.  Yes, organization is important but productivity is more than organization.  Sometimes our productivity is af...

We all know the saying, “time is money”, but most of us do not really understand how it applies to our business.  What if there was a way to measure how much money time is costing you?  Well you do not have to look any further, because on this episode of A New Direction , co-author Sean Fields introduces us to Quantum Lean (QL).  So what is Quantum Lean ?  Perhaps you have heard of &#8...

Many people believe that millionaires have their money because they inherited it, won it, or married into it.  According to a Fidelity investment study however, 88% of today’s millionaires are self-made.  How did they do it?  What is the secret behind how these self-made millionaires got to where they are today.  In this episode of A New Direction Author Mark Gleason interviewed 18 self-made...

Now probably more than every the issue of teams has become in question.  Before the pandemic when everyone worked in the office, it was much easier to be a team since we were all sitting in the same room and face to face.  But today with the hybrid of people at home and at work teams have become…well…let’s just say a bit more difficult.  Thankfully Leo Bottary is with us on this...

Whether it is business or life you probably have some sort of strategy, but is that strategy producing the results that you had hoped for?  So what is the problem?  Is it the strategy…maybe, but probably not.  When it comes to getting the results that you want the biggest issue may be your execution.  Meaning that everything is in the right place, you have a good plan you just are not doing...

John Wooden was the greatest college basketball coach of all time.  He won 10 National Championships and 4 undefeated seasons while at UCLA.  Some have even said, that John Wooden was the greatest coach of any sport…it would be hard to argue against him.  As great as John Wooden was as a basketball coach he was even a better coach of life.  His players loved him, and he invested himself in t...

If you talk to the most successful Entrepreneurs in the world you will find that there are many traits that are associated with success.  And one of those traits is being undaunted.  Being entrepreneur requires you to be perseverant even when everyone else wants you to quit.  It means being resilient when you yourself feel like quitting.  As an Undaunted  entrepreneur you must stand up for yoursel...