Empathy and Positivity are Overrated in Leadership. Do This Instead.
We have an us vs. them bias in our brains. Empathy only confirms that bias. Dr. Terry Wu has a
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Take Charge and Drive Your Own Career Success
Career tips for up-and-coming leaders Ed Evarts is the Founder and President at Excellius Leadership Development and comes with more
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What Families Get Wrong About Succession Planning
Don’t let your life’s work disappear after the third generation. Steven Goodman is passionate about providing insightful solutions to the
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Enhance Your Company’s Brand Image by Telling a Good Story
When you tell a good story, no one will complain about the cost. Geoff Thatcher is the Founder and Chief
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Strategic Planning During COVID-19
How do you make your business thrive during a global pandemic? Todd gets interviewed by Rick Brimacomb from Club E
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The Power of Emotional Grit
When things aren’t looking too good, flip the script. Jennifer Fernjack is a brain tumor survivor and through that
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Next Generation Mentorship: How to Invest in Young Talent
People are your biggest asset. How do you best develop them? PK Kriha and Natalie Watkins both work as an
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The Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders: Connection, Communication, and Collaboration
Alain Hunkins is a leadership expert, speaker, and author. Over the course of his 20-plus year career, Alain has recognized
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How to Handle Conflict in a Healthy Way and Get Those Issues Solved
Self-awareness is a critical trait that leaders must develop. Paul Annett is the Owner of inTransition LLC. He has more
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The 5 Intentional Growth Principles You Need
Ryan Tansom sold his family business to a local competitor for eight figures. After stumbling through the exit process, Ryan
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10 Ways The Small Business Owner Can Protect Themselves Against Cyber Attacks
Cybersecurity doesn’t have to be a scary place. Ken Gilmour is the CEO of Knogin, a cybersecurity company. Many small
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Turning the Tables & Profiting from a Crisis
If you are able to turn off or stop the problem, the symptoms will go away. Profiting from crisis is
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Finding those Grand Slam Clients
Todd walks you through his process on how to uncover those amazing ‘grand slam’ clients. Todd was invited to
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Best Ways to Turn a Company Around When Facing Cash Flow Problems
How do you turn your company around when you are facing cash flow problems? Eric Mitchellette is the Founder
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The Four Phases to Building a High Performing Leadership Team
Paul Annett is the Owner of inTransition LLC. He has more than 25 years of experience in corporate management and
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CEO Peer Groups
Kurt Theriault is the President of Allied Executives, a locally-based peer group organization in the Twin Cities for CEOs, Business
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Executives in Transition
If you have reached a fork in the road as as executive, it may be time for a change. Navigate
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Finding the Right Member for your Board
Looking for a new member for your board of directors can often be very difficult. Especially when you want an
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Finding Temporary Financial Talent for Your Transitioning Company
On this episode of the Dynasty Leadership Podcast, John Morris and Ken Saddler, of B2B CFO join the show to
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Hire a Temporary CMO While Your Company Undergoes a Transition
Whether your company has been purchased or just going through an internal transition, bringing in outside help to provide strategy
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Clarifying Your Message
On this episode of the Dynasty Leadership Podcast, David Mann, of Simple Message joins the show to talk about how
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Free up Time and Resources by Using a PEO!
When you are running a small to medium-sized business, it can be difficult to develop and execute a plan for
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Building your Board of Directors
Building a board of directors is not always easy. It takes a balanced group of individuals that come from different
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The 7 Steps to a Successful Business Catapult
On this episode of the Dynasty Leadership Podcast, roles are reversed as production assistant David Krolczyk joins the show to
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Using Social Media to Recruit New Talent
As of December 2018, the national unemployment rate is 3.9% which has created an increasingly tight economy. Finding new talent
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When is the Right Time to Quit Your Job?
Maybe it’s the holiday season, or maybe it’s the end of the year, but I have had more people asking
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Patents – Protecting Your Best Original Ideas
On this episode of the Dynasty Leadership Podcast, Craige Thompson of Thompson Patent Law joins the show to discuss his
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Bring in New Business That Looks like the Top 5% of Your Best Clients
There are times in life when giving up something can mean getting more back. We see this when it comes
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7 Rules for a successful pivot
To pivot, or to dramatically change your business strategy takes nerves of steel for the leaders. The term pivot comes
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Portfolio Life
When it comes to retirement, we all have a dream scenario in mind. We think that one day we will
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Millennial Leadership
Tyler Olson is an award-winning serial entrepreneur in several technology fields as well as the Founder of Modern Foundation, an
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The R.O.I. of Coaching
ROI of Coaching Panel 2018. Lead by Judy Zimmer with Todd Eberhardt, Tammy Krings and Anne Marie Pernice We all
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Millennials & Gen Z – The New Workforce
Sarah Sladek is the CEO of XYZ University, an organization that helps equip worldwide companies with valuable tools and information
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Thinking of selling your mid-market business – Here’s how
Selling your business is something most entrepreneurs do once. It will represent a lifetime’s worth of work. So
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Marketing to Millennials
This special episode features three guests instead of one! They’re a family-owned company featuring father, daughter, and son. In less
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How to make an effective introduction by email
I frequently get asked for help to connect people, which I’m happy to do as long as I can see
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Employment Background Checks
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST RIGHT HERE: Should you do a background check before hiring? Robert McDowell is the Founder and
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7 untold truths of a startup
What every entrepreneur should know before quitting their day job. They say that at any given time 90% of Americans
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The Benefits of Social Proof
On today’s show, Kevin St. Clergy discusses how to build social proof in your business and why reviews are a
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Marketing – A Value Proposition your customers will buy
Mark Coronna is the Chief Marketing Officer of Chief Outsiders, a company focused on accelerating growth for their customers. Today’s
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Perma-Five
“Perma-Five” = The time frame most often given by entrepreneurs when asked about a major change in their life. It’s
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How to Restructure Like a Pro
Click on the link below to listen to the podcast right here: Chancellor Jim Schmidt did not need more stress
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Why are my sales people missing the target?
Why do salespeople waste time on dead-end prospects? As leaders, we think we are very explicit when we tell
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Compensation – Golden Chain Gang
Listen in to the podcast right here Karl Neset is a Fractional CFO for CliftonLarsonAllen. Karl has perfected a
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Bad Bosses need Toxic Handlers
In the past few months, I have had a number of executive clients bring up the subject of horrible bosses
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Help! My Website’s Been Hacked!
Rebecca Metz is the Founder of Web Pages That Sell. When Rebecca was coming back from vacation, she found out
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Delegation – Part 2 – “Trust but Verify”
In my previous post, we discussed Delegation: Giving up control to gain control. Next we will take you through the “secret
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Leadership – 5 Principles of a Business Leader
Ron didn’t take the path most executives of multi-billion dollar companies take. They tend to work for a few years,
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Delegation: Giving up control to gain control
Steve Carell in The Office What if Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates or Larry Ellison continued to write software code for
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Selling to national accounts; the 3 most important rules I learned
What are the three rules that all buyers in a national account role follow? 1. Don’t make any changes
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How to know when it’s time for a Changing of the Guard
Your business is not a sprint, it’s not a marathon. It’s a relay. The people who got you here, are
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014: How to build a “bankable” sales forecast
Listen to the podcast on iTunes Terry Slattery is the President and CEO of Slattery Sales Group. After serving
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013: How do you spot a market bubble?
Junk bonds, dot.com, real estate all went through a spectacular rise and then a dramatic crash. I survived the dot.com
ListenWhat does your brand say about you?
Who is the Seattle Seahawks 12th Man and where did he come from? How about the Jack Links Sasquatch? Why
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Have you met a Unicorn Hunter?
Picture this: Kevin was beyond panic. October was approaching and the CEO/owner of a small tech company in Southern California
Listen011: How to buy seven competitors with $0 down
You’re not just taking on another business, you’re taking on somebody’s life’s work. David Samuels is a corporate executive benefits
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How to recognize Business Hypothermia
Have you ever seen a company file bankruptcy and you ask yourself “how did that happen?” There are always signs.
Listen010: Using Local News to Boost Business
Blois Olson is the Founder of Fluence Media, an agency that provides perspective, strategy, and execution to clients. They specialize
Listen009: What’s life like after retirement?
For an entrepreneur, retirement isn’t always an easy thing to accept. Stan Glawe had been working since the age of
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What makes a championship team?
I recently had the rare opportunity for a backstage pass with the University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire hockey team. One
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How to Acquire 18 Businesses – A Simple Process
Dr. Bill Kotonias is a dentist, entrepreneur, and mentor for several up & coming entrepreneurs. On this week’s episode, we
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What do Donald Trump and Alice Cooper have in common?
What great “secret of success” do both of these showmen know that many failed business owners do not? To win
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007: Crisis communication – What every CEO should know
In this episode of Dynasty Leadership Podcast, I talk with Jon Austin of J. Austin & Associates. He
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What do these iconic companies all have in common?
All of the owners started these companies after they turned 50. What if you go through the process of selling
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If Smokey the Bear ran our government
If we treated our government the way it was intended, it could be managed by the three rules Smokey the
Listen006: Marketing – selling $400M without ever making a cold call.
Most people would not recommend their real estate agent or even re-use him/her ever again. Why? The clients typically
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Death by Player/Coach – 7 Fatal Flaws
Every year hundreds of successful salespeople are taken out of production and have their career snuffed out. This is done
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005: Opportunity Cost – How do you manage risk?
This week I talk with Gerry Brockman, who has worked with Wall Street M&A firms, a major airline a trucking
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Advice & Mentors – Who can you trust?
In the course six startup companies, I have been given a lot of advice from a lot of people. Some
Listen004: How do you create a Sales Compensation Plan that delivers results?
You’ve got to put the right carrots in front of the Sales Reps to get them to deliver clients for
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When are the only 3 times a Sales Manager should step in?
I have been on both sides of this conversation. Several times as a rep and also as a manager. I
Listen003: Why do nearly 50% of mergers fail?
How do some companies continuously blend in acquisitions and “bolt-on” companies while keeping clients happy and remaining profitable? While others
Listen002: What do Strategic Buyers know about M&A that you don’t?
Why is it that some companies are always in the news getting credit for another great purchase? Why can’t you
Listen001: When is the right time to sell your business?
Most business owners sell only once in a lifetime. While it can be financially rewarding, it’s an emotional
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