by chala | Aug 10, 2016 | Small business growth
The fact that walls are there to stop not us but the people around us who don’t want it badly enough is a quote I read from the author of ‘The Last Lecture’, Randy Pausch. Randy was, among many things, a professor of computer science at Carnegie...
by chala | Jul 28, 2016 | Marketing
Sometimes when I hear speakers say something, it ignites a fire in my brain. That’s exactly what happened when I watched creativity expert Sir. Ken Robinson’s TED talk. I mean, true he’s been saying the same thing since 2006 (probably since he was...
by chala | Jul 13, 2016 | Small business growth
Did you know that the best solutions to your business problems can come from outside of your industry? A study conducted by the Harvard Business Review looked at how 3 different groups (roofers, carpenters, and inline skaters) would come up with ideas on how to...
by chala | Jul 7, 2016 | Small business growth
I often hear my own coaches’ voices in my head so I thought of how this voice-in-head phenomenon is related to our success and failure in business (as well as life). So here’s a client who has a wine event business. We repositioned her from an event...
by chala | Jun 30, 2016 | Marketing
Say what? Focusing your marketing plan on getting clients who are ‘happy’ can make you the opposite? How can that be? Let me explain… Mindset Niching At the recent International Coaching Federation conference I spoke at, most of the coaches I talked...