Let's face it, when everyone agrees on the actions, plans, desired outcomes, or processes, achieving goals is fairly straightforward. When there are differences in opinions and strongly held ideas or beliefs, the process can become fraught with emotions.

"I've been totally ignoring some of the most important areas of my life!" "All I have been setting are business goals. Man, I have really been missing out!"

A successful organization is one where all the parts are working together (are in alignment). These organizations are innovative, customer responsive, and prevent fires.

This is the biggest transformation of communication with consumers in our lifetime, so to not learn how to participate in those channels is outrageous. To stand on the sidelines is not an option.

I believe that motivation and optimism are two ingredients that will assure success.The person who says "I can't" and the person who says "I can" are usually both right.

These are the very first words I found when opening Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. This book is filled with easy to apply principles of human relations which, from experience, will improve your communication skills, increase your ability to persuade others, give you more harmonious interactions, help you get what you want, and overall will change your life.

This applies directly to our approach with clients on improving professional and reputation success; getting more of what they want and less of what they don't want.

If you could develop symbiotic relations with key customers, would that result in 2014 being the best year of company or organizational growth since the enterprise was started? If you believe that this would likely happen, read on.

I recently read a report sponsored by Accenture, Oracle and Longitude Research. While they titled the article CFO Catalyst for Change, my interpretation aligns better with CFO Catalyst for Opportunity!

To "try" is to "make an attempt or effort" to do something, not necessarily to do it.