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Strategy vs Tactics – What’s the Difference?
Let’s say you’re an entrepreneur with a new business idea. Exciting! You are eating, sleeping, breathing and dreaming about your idea, building it out in minute detail in your head. You might even write your idea down and flesh out the idea on paper. At some point,...
Track Your Wins & Reward Yourself – It Matters!
Have you ever noticed how quick we are to talk about our failures, shortcomings, and misses, and how reluctant we are to share our successes, accomplishments, and wins? Why is that? I haven’t done the research on this, but I do have a theory. Well, a few theories,...
A Habit’s Not a Habit Until You Do the Thing!
How many times have we decided to incorporate a new habit into our lives or work, set up the environment to make it obvious and attractive, planned out rewards to give ourselves, gotten ourselves all pumped up about it… and then just not done the thing? Who Hasn’t? ...
Cultivate a Craving
When I was a young girl, I craved music. Craved it. I would watch someone on TV or in person playing the piano and singing and everything in me wanted to do that. I would go and kneel down at the couch in the living room and pray that I would be able to play the...
The 1% Factor
For 2022, I am committed to upping my leadership game to up my business game, and to helping others do the same. Why? Well, to get better results, obviously, right? To this I have to say, “Yes, and…” We all want better business results - a better bottom line. But...
The Relationship Between Boundaries and Trust
What’s the relationship between boundaries and trust? Are boundaries a demonstration of mistrust? Often, we think people put boundaries in place because of a breached or broken trust, but the truth is that healthy boundaries are an important part of building...
Trusting Yourself
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts.” - Bertrand Russell This month at On Point with Danielle, we are focusing on a key element of leadership: TRUST. In this post, as the title...
Trust and Productivity
Lately, I’ve been reminded of Stephen M.R. Covey’s book The Speed of Trust. In it, Covey, who is Stephen Covey’s (Seven Habits of Highly Effective People) son, asserts that a high-trust environment is extremely advantageous to better business outcomes. It’s rally...
Encourage the Heart
Encourage the Heart I’ve heard, over the years, a saying that goes, “Business has no feelings.” This saying is used as a cover or permission, in my opinion, for decisions and activities that, at best, dismiss the feelings of people, and, at worst, hurt people. And it...
Enable Others to Act
Are you a team player? Or more of a lone ranger? If you’re an entrepreneur, you probably said the latter. I hear from entrepreneurs all the time that they went out on their own in business because they didn’t want to be “under the thumb” of someone else, or that...