Brian Tracy's Blog, page 38

Leadership Qualities are the Keys to Effective Leadership

Leaders never stop growing and developing. They have the capacity to keep themselves from falling into a comfort zone. They are lifelong students.

Do you have an drive and goal to become a great leader?

All leadership qualities can be learned. The hard part is identifying the qualities that you must learn to succeed as an effective leader. Follow these steps today to find out how to become a better leader.

Develop Leadership Qualities By Improving Yourself

A key to developing leadership qualities...

[Survey] Do You Want to Write a Book?

According to USA Today, 82% of adults dream of writing a book. That means 8 out of 10 people want to write a book. It means that in America, millions of people have ideas that they want to write about. Your ideas can help influence and help others!

Why do You Want to Write a Book?

You may want to write a book for any of these reasons:

1) You have knowledge in a particular topic or field and a desire to teach.

2) You want to establish or strengthen your position as an expert or thought leader wit...

Enhance Your Marketing Strategy, Increase Your Sales

What is the purpose of your business? Do you have a quality marketing strategy in place to keep customers coming back? Do you know who your customers are?

These are some important questions to ask when evaluating your overall marketing strategy.

Here are some ideas and questions to ask yourself that you can use today to improve the overall goals and sales in your business.

What is the Purpose Your Business?

Many people think that the purpose of a business is simply to make a profit, but this is n...

This Personal Power Formula Will Change Your Life

Your ability to build relationships effectively with other people, to persuade and influence and to communicate with others in such a way that they help you to achieve your goals is essential to everything that happens to you.

Cooperation with others and building strong relationships with others is the key to finding personal power in your life.

The Law of Control and Your Personal Power

There is a “Law of Control” that says you feel positive about yourself to the degree to which you take contr...

6 Tactics to Avoid Risk as an Entrepreneur

One of the myths of entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs are risk takers.

However, this is not true at all.Successful entrepreneurs actually avoid risk.

Successful entrepreneurs are focused on earning a profit from their activities and avoid risks that may cause them to lose money. If you want to have a successful start-up you must learn to avoid risk.

Successful entrepreneurs do everything possible to minimize the risks involved in earning that profit to the degree to which they create succes...

Time Management Tip: Use a PERT Chart

Do you have a project you need to have completed by a certain deadline? Not sure how to go about planning it?

Excellent time management and project management starts by having and writing down a clear plan.

A great way to plan your projects is to create a “PERT Chart.”

What is a PERT Chart?

When you create a visual representation of your larger tasks and projects you and others can see it in its totality. This is often called a PERT chart. This time management technique is used by the most effici...

The Biggest Mistake New Entrepreneurs Make

The key to survival in any business is cash. Cash is king. Cash is critical. Cash is everything. When starting a business, you must become an absolute fanatic about generating and conserving cash, especially in the beginning.

In order to save money, you must postpone, delay, defer and abandon every conceivable expense that you possibly can to assure an adequate supply of cash.

You must not spend a single penny on anything that you cannot turn quickly back into cash.

The Biggest Mistake Entrepre...

5 Myths That Block Effective Delegation in Business

Your job as a manager is to get the maximum return on the company’s investment in people. Effective delegation is one of the ways to do this. Delegation is also the key to effective communication and training and development in the workplace.

As much as 85% of the operating budget of any organization is invested in salaries and benefits and the question is, “Are you getting maximum return out of those people?”

Delegating is the method; it is how you develop people in business. The way you dele...

3 Success Principles to Set and Achieve Your Goals

If you seek opportunity in life, you’ll end up with all of the security you need. However, if you only seek security, you’ll end up with neither opportunity nor security.

The proof is that this is all around us, in the downsizing and reconstructing of corporations, where thousands of men and women who sought security are finding themselves unemployed for long periods of time.

A person makes his or her own luck by setting goals, following through and achieving them.

Follow these success principl...

Improve Your Performance at Work in 4 Easy Steps

You can do many things to improve your performance at work, things that don’t occur to most people.How successful you are at work is determined largely by your attitude and how you spend your time.

Here are 4 EASY ways to improve your performance at work that you may never have thought of.

1) Learn How to Manage Your Priorities

To improve performance at work you must have the ability to set priorities and to separate the relevant from the irrelevant when facing the many tasks of the day. You mu...