A New Direction

Times Have Changed for CEO’s…Get Switched On! In high-pressure moments, are you truly in control of your decisions, or is your brain just reacting? The truth is, when stress kicks in, most of us default to old patterns stored in the back of our brains—patterns that often lead to bad choices. That’s why Steven R. Falk , author of The Switched On CEO, is joining A New Direction to reveal...

Power Up You and Your Business Are you ready to unlock your full potential and take charge of your life? This week on A New Direction , we welcome the incredible Hilda Fainsod , author of Power Up , a transformative book designed to help you break through barriers and reach new heights in your personal and professional journey. Hilda’s insights will challenge you to rethink limitations and step bo...

The ONLY 3 Reason Businesses Fail Ever wondered why so many businesses collapse, even when they seem to be doing everything right? Join us on A New Direction as we dive deep into Larry Mandelberg ’s eye-opening book, Businesses Don’t Fail, They Commit Suicide. Larry Mandelberg has taken his years of experience, and his own coaching case studies to ask the burdening question… Why do businesse...

Accountable Leadership is not for Everyone As the leader, you are responsible for everything! You are accountable for the decisions that you make, or don’t make. You will be held accountable for the decisions your team makes, or doesn’t make. Even more, you will be held accountable for the failures, while giving your team the credit for the wins. You are accountable for your hires. If...

Be Visionary the Navy SEAL way When we talk about leadership, we will think about a number of traits. But one trait that we often ill define in leadership is vision. Do you have vision? Are you leading with vision? What traits do you need to be a leader with vision? You may not be thinking about it, but have you considered that truly to be a leader with vision requires ethics, discipline, confiden...

The Leader as a Coach? What if leadership isn’t about titles, positions, or authority? In his groundbreaking book “Leader Is Not a Title”, David W. Anderson challenges conventional thinking about leadership. He argues that a true leader is a coach and is defined by her or his actions, mindset, and influence, not a title or designation on a business card. It’s a refreshing p...

How to Create a Culture in 8-Steps Culture in business and organization is often talked about, but rarely analyzed for its effectiveness.  Often times we don’t even notice our culture, like your computer’s operating system, it just runs in the background of your business. We hear about “business culture” from a variety of experts and professionals. So much so, that we often...

Discovering Your Passion Will Change Your Life Passion is something I don’t believe we fully understand. Some of our passions change with age. Some passions we have for a lifetime. Sometimes we can confuse passion with purpose. Although they are related, they are not the same thing. Sometimes people will say follow your passions, but not all passions are meant or should they be followed. Pas...

6 Elements to Unblock & Develop a High-Performance Business Where do you think your business is struggling? Is it achieving the goals you can’t seem to make? Do you want to increase market share? Do you need to make faster decisions? How about when it comes to your people? Are they achieving their goals? Are they taking initiative? And the biggest question are they taking “ownershi...

Leading Your Team Like the Navy SEALs There is leadership and then there is leading. The two are not always synonymous. Leadership bases itself in a philosophy. Leading is the actions one takes. When it comes to leading teams, no other group has a track record of leading others like the Navy SEALs. They are put in some of the most dangerous, compromising, and difficult situations and still they ov...

Book Publishing Myths You Probably Have, But Don’t Realize How many times have you heard someone say to you, or say to yourself, “You should write a book.” Probably more than you with to count. True, writing a book is challenging, but once you write it, then what? How do you publish it? Who is going to publish it? Should you “pitch” it to a known book publisher, or se...

What Doubts do you have that are keeping you from being the person you want to be, and doing what you really desire to do? Are you stuck in your life or your career? Are you really doing what you want to do, or are you doing what you think you have to do? Often times we are stuck because of fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear of failure. Fear of not being successful. But it all comes down to fear of n...

Maximizing Profitability as You Grow Your Business Did you know that 60% of businesses fail in the first 5 years? That’s not all of those that survive the first 5 years, 60% will fail in the next 5 years. Not a recipe for success. The reason…lack of profitability. Profitability doesn’t have to be difficult. In fact, there are simple methods that lead to profitability. And busines...

Shy By Design 12 Principles to Quietly Stand Out You may be one of those people who consider themselves “shy” making it difficult for you to stand out among the crowd of highly extroverted people. Or you simply may be someone who isn’t much of a talker, or in the spotlight type of person, where trying to stand out feels overwhelming. So how does someone still compete and stand ou...

Dreams NOT Goals to Build High Performing Teams What’s the first thing you think of when you read the word “dream”? Chances are, the first thing you thought of was something “fanciful” that isn’t real. Or perhaps you thought of something that you do when you sleep, but often do not remember. What if I were to suggest to you that dreaming actually works better th...

How to Build High-Performing Teams that Operates Like the Navy SEALs If you are in business and have a team, no matter how large or how small, we ultimately want a High-performing team. But have a high-performing team does not happen overnight. And it requires a kind of leadership that quite frankly is not so common in the work place. So, where do you look to find the best, high-performing teams?...

Climbing the Mountain of Accountability is Not Going to be Easy Here is a fact that is never said about accountability… No one can hold anyone else accountable, you are only accountable to yourself. We all talk about the importance of accountability. We think if we put someone in charge of another person, we will somehow motivate the through accountability. But accountability must come from...

Your Leadership Can Become Dull Like a Knife in Your Home… You Need Some Honing Steal to Sharpen it. Leadership is never something we can fully master. It is an elusive journey to keep growing and going. Many times as leaders, we can get into a rut in our leadership. We can get stagnant. For whatever reason, our leadership has become bland. Then there are those that we lead. Perhaps they hav...

How to Have Conversations that Really Change You and Your Business. Whether in life or business, relationships are important to our success. And relationships are built on our conversations. If our conversations are not authentic, trusting, safe, have commitment, and accountability, we will not build strong relationships. The fact is that we often take our conversations for granted. We would like...

Taking a Break from Burn Out Work burn out is real. So often employers dismiss it and treat it as a weakness in the employee. But nothing could be further from the truth. Let me ask you this question, would you want to have a surgery from a doctor who is exhausted mentally, emotionally or physically? Of course not. Some professions actually do recognize the need to protect their employees from bur...

5 Conversations That Will Change You We all say, “communication is important.” The problem is, we still do not communicate all that effectively. If we did, our personal and professional relationships would be so much more effective and efficient. What is the biggest problem with our communication?  It is ourselves. We either do not have the right conversations, do not focus on the righ...

Achieve the Possible Has life dealt you a bunch of lemons, and you can’t seem to make lemonade?  Have things happened to your business that you are stuck? Has it come to the point that you are saying to yourself, it’s not possible?  Do you need a reawakening to what is possible? Have you lost your vision? Maybe you never had one? Are you making an impact? How is your focus? How about y...

Motivation: How Do You Create It for Yourself and Your Team? Motivation. There are a ton of theories that exist. Some theories suggest that motivation comes from within, others suggest motivation can be inspired from others. Regardless of what camp you fall into, there is one thing that has stood that test of time and that is “Prospect Theory” which was coined by Nobel Prize winner Dan...

Being Intentional Creates Success in Life and Business! Would you like to be more successful in both your life and your business? What does that word “success” mean to you, really? Whatever it means to you personally, would you like to improve upon it? The answer is “YES”! We all want to be more successful in life and business. A great deal has been said, about success, but...

Can Your Business Run without You? As I am writing this, I had just finished talking to an entrepreneur/business owner who said, “I’ve got too much on me… And only I can do it.” So often, the very thing that they created for freedom from having to work for someone else becomes the very thing the imprisons you. Because you have become the very center of your business, everyt...