All in Leadership
To persuade a skeptical, savvy and impatient modern audience, your pitch needs to be under three minutes. To create a persuasive pitch that fits into that time frame, it needs to consist of about 25 sentences that answer the following questions: What is it? How does it work? Are you sure? And can you do it?
Have you ever dreamed of being a prized novelist, famed screenplay writer or a slick Mad Men-esque copywriter? You’re not alone. Even so, chances are no one wants to read what you write – that is, unless you are ready to take some tough but tried and tested advice to heart. If so, you’re in luck.
It is not intermittent, extraordinary actions that separate great leaders from everyone else; rather mindful leaders consistently do the simple things — like knowing when to take a break — extraordinarily well. When we start by doing the small things well, big things can happen.
Great teamwork is built on fostering positivity and optimism by promoting a culture that values commitment, care and clear communication between all team members. It leaves no room for negativity to seep in.
Employers look for two things when hiring or promoting people: knowledge and skill. They rarely, if ever, consider character. Yet character is the key to extraordinary business success.
More than what you get done, more than the role you play, more than your title, more than your ‘output’—it’s your ideas that matter. Despite the importance of a person’s ability to think with creativity, few people seem to possess the skill in abundance.
