15 Ways to Learn from Someone You Disagree With
The person next to me on the flight was slightly abrasive and borderline obnoxious. I had only tried to be polite and say “Hello” when I sat down but he took the opportunity to launch into a...
View ArticleThe Gift that Taught Me Something New About Selling
My first experience selling was in college when I helped promote success rallies for a now long-time friend. After graduation I held sales positions in the magazine publishing business. I was never...
View ArticleThe Lost Art of Keeping Your Word
The chasm between “promises made” and “promises kept” seems to keep widening. Consider: How many times have you unsubscribed from emails and continued to receive them? I’ve noticed that a high...
View ArticleThe Most Important Skill for Success
What do all successful people have in common, regardless of occupation or location? Intentionality. In my book, The Intention Imperative, I define intentionality as being crystal clear on what...
View Article24 of My Most Important Quotes
Are you familiar with Reader’s Digest? In business since 1922, it famously condenses books and articles to make information more quickly and readily accessible. I’ve been speaking full time for 36...
View ArticleEnvisioning Green: An Extraordinary Small Business
When Steven Johns started mowing lawns at the age of 12, he never imagined the summer job would grow into an entire lawn care company. Four years later, he hired another person part-time. By his senior...
View ArticleTwo Words that Will Make You Less Critical of Others
A fellow traveler had stopped very close to the bottom of the escalator to search in their luggage while creating a potential pile up in the airport. “Good grief,” I thought angrily, “How self-absorbed...
View Article5 Ways to Increase Your Capacity
Working more hours to get more done is the downfall of most failed leaders. This problem is due to a lack of capacity. Capacity is the amount that something or someone can produce. When someone moves...
View ArticleHPU: A Case Study in the Extraordinary
How does a sleepy backwater college that few have heard of quadruple enrollment in 15 years? Furthermore, what enables a school to expand the size of the campus from 91 acres to 520 acres, while...
View ArticleWhat’s Right About Being Wrong
Nobody enjoys being wrong, but there are worse things. For instance: Being wrong and not knowing it (while everyone else does). Being wrong and being unable to admit it. Being wrong and...
View ArticleTexas Roadhouse and a Leader’s Legacy
A personal note: This post is a tribute to Kent Taylor, founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse who tragically passed in March 2021. Kent was one of the most intentional leaders I’ve ever met, and I am...
View ArticleLearn These Platform Mechanics to Make Every Speech Rock
I was among three thousand people listening intently to a speaker deliver her message. She made a point to tell the audience she didn’t like to wear shoes when she spoke (and she didn’t). Her delivery...
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6 Shifts for Leading The Future that is Already Here
Something very unusual happened because of Covid 19 that hadn’t happened before. The world had experienced pandemics and cataclysmic events before, but Covid was different. Covid changed many things,...
View Article7 Big Surprises from My Research on Leadership During Crisis
How well do leaders perform during crisis? My firm, Sanborn & Associates, Inc., completed a national research study to uncover lessons leaders can use during these perplexing times. Specifically,...
View Article4 Exercises that Will Make You a Better Speaker
You can read three books on riding a bicycle, but until you put your feet on the pedals you won’t start learning to ride. You can gain knowledge about speaking from reading books and watching seminars,...
View Article10 Reasons Why Change Fails
Jean-Jacques Rousseau said, “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of...
View ArticleGoing from Zero to Hero
My antivirus software license had expired and the company emailed me to let me know. The email said I could renew and upgrade my software online.While I was downloading the upgrade, the process froze...
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Leadership Lessons
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View ArticleCreate Your Best Presentation: the 10 MiM Exercise
Ashley is a young woman with an impressive past of overcoming difficulties and circumstances. She’s been speaking on behalf of a well know youth organization and wants to transition to becoming a...
View ArticleHow to be a Smart (not a Sore) Loser
Nobody likes to lose. When someone loses and reacts badly, we call them a sore loser. Yet others use loss to fuel future victory. How do they do that and become smart losers? To be a loser requires...
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