Orchestrating Success

David A. Duryea is business improvement veteran with more than thirty-two years of experience in practical business improvement and technology innovation. He has led more than sixty business improvement and innovation projects in sixteen different industries. As a legal expert witness for failed technology and business innovation projects, David has performed project forensics on failed implementa...

Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all. – Emily Dickinson Once, upon hearing a person tell me that he had worked continuously for four years with no vacation, I stopped to think about how unsuccessful that person appeared to be to me. Now, I fully realize that, to some people who enjoy their work, this might be a desired...

Let’s focus on Success! That means accomplishing what we set out to accomplish! According to the research… D & B determined that 90% of entrepreneurs fail due to the lack of skill… The Myer Foundation discovered that 45% of nonprofit leaders are burned out! Others of are might be doing fine… …we could do much better, if we only know what was missing. I have been working with Social Entrepreneurs f...

Kelly Holmes on Networking http://teamreferralnetwork.com Welcome to TEAM Referral Network, where we are passionate about networking and connecting you with the right professionals to grow your business. TEAM Referral Network was created in 2002 out of La Verne, California. That first chapter has grown to hundreds of chapters across the Western United States, with plans to expand nationally and in...

It’s interesting to observe in the news accounts of politics the fact that people with opposing opinions both claim to be precisely correct. Is there a danger in claiming to be right? I observe that there is typically common ground in diverse points of view and that many people don’t know how to get that perspective lost in the debate or argument about who is right and who is wrong. Getting unstuc...

Nathan Hirsch from Free Up shares his outsourcing secrets. Nate is the CEO of FreeeUp.com and the COO of Portlight. Nate has been an entrepreneur in the eCommerce industry since 2009 and has grown into a leading expert in the field with experience managing multi-million dollar businesses. He has extensive knowledge in creating business systems and processes, personnel management, hiring remote wor...

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change. – Stephen Covey Leadership Blind Spots  In o... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Being listened to is so close to being loved that most people cannot tell the difference.” –David Oxberg The Leadership Skills of The Musical Conductor Listening is a primary skill for the Transformational Leader. My model for great leadership is based on the skills of the musical conductor, who is a great listener. Success is directly and immediately experienced as a result of effective leadersh...

Without Discernment, Leaders Fail We learn, then we digest that learning; finally we discern the appropriate application of the learning.– Hugh Ballou Leading is Applied Wisdom I’ve just finished presenting to people this week in 5 separate groups. Some of the presentations were keynotes. Some of them were workshops or lessons. The common thread was leaders wanting to gain wisdom. Some were leadin...

Continuous improvement requires systematic evaluation. Continuous improvement requires unfiltered evaluation. - Anonymous Mastering the Evaluation is a Valuable Leadership Skill Often I interview a potential client and hear that they have a strategic plan…more often than not, it’s put away somewhere and dusty. In other conversations about creating a strategic plan, I hear the same story…we have co...

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. Unfortunately, 9 out of 10 people attempting to launch a new enterprise, whether a business or a charity, will fail without achieving that dream.   What’s the difference? It’s having a plan and surrounding yourself with a competent team to implement that pl...

Hugh Ballou Interviews Dave Lucas about his Misfit Entrepreneur concepts and systems. The Interview Transcript Ep 53, Interview with Dave Lukas Hugh Ballou: Dave Lukas has this podcast called the Misfit Entrepreneur. Dave, you and I met virtually, and we are getting acquainted. What I have seen so far is quite impressive. Say a little bit about your background and your business, and then about thi...

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Effective leaders are not always right. They ensure that leaders on their teams are. Leading is empowering others. - Hugh Ballou As leaders, we follow what we have been taught by habit, and mostly out of ignorance of what else to do. We respect those who have impacted our lives, unintentionally feeling obligated to do so. In my case, it's a part of that inherited behavior of desiring to please oth...

The Transformational Leader Effectively Delegates A common leadership challenge is defining how to empower teams to function at a higher level, producing more quality results. This is an opportunity to effectively manage one's own schedule by getting things off the schedule that someone else can do. Delegation does not mean delegate it and forget it. Delegation does not mean micromanaging, either....

You have inherited a lifetime of tribulation. Everybody has inherited it. Take it over, make the most of it and when you have decided you know the right way, do the best you can with it. - Murray Bowen Over the past 8 years of study of Bowen Systems, I have gained specific knowledge that helps me with my work with organizational leaders in many fields. What I didn’t use in my work previously, is d...

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We sometimes make a plan (entrepreneurs keep a lot of ideas in their minds and don’t always make a written plan to share), and sometimes we create action items for the plan, and sometimes we connect the plan to implementation. If we do those things, then we raise the bar substantially on succeeding. That puts us into the top 10% of leadership excellence. Check my recent podcast 04, Creating Your P...

An effective leader does not have all the answers, but asks good questions. In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care. - Victoria Pratt Lead by ExampleBeing vulnerable is a strength of leadership, not a weakness. We think that being strong means that we are not vulnerable, not transparent, and basically not hone...

The More the Leader Controls the Group, the Less Effective the Results Become My friend and colleague, Larry Dill, hired me to develop a world-class music program in Huntsville, Alabama. When he called to invite me to consider the position, I asked him, "Where's Huntsville?" I was in Atlanta, Georgia, at the time and had very little self-awareness of smaller places. I went to check out the positio...

Balance…or Not! I’m writing a new book. I’m thinking of calling it Adrenaline as a Way of Life. Or maybe I’ll try Time: There Will Never be Enough of It, So Squander What You’ve Got. Here’s a sneak peak at my chapter outline. Chapter One: E-mergency Answer all emails at once. Do not delay. Stop whatever you are doing and answer that baby. Chapter Two: Adrenaline is My Motivator Save tasks that are...

We give energy to what we think about. - Anonymous You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. - James Allen Negative Thoughts Managing our thoughts is the only thing we truly have control over, and our thoughts control our results. Managing ourselves creates a reciprocal response in others in any group emotional situation. We, as leaders,...

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Managing our use of time * Keeping yourself organized * Writing things down * Time wasters * Sharing your goals Keeping within the plan…intuitively knowing what not to do Practice managing self wishing the allowed time FOCUS Journaling: review your day at the end of the day and note were the time went Share goals and have an accountability parter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. - James Allen Studying Leadership Being or becoming an effective leader means being a serious student of leadership, and not being a leadership expert. A plan for constant reflection, evaluation, study, and planning is common among great leaders. Let's reflect on our own skills tod...