Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning.
A man with a violin plays six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approximately two thousand people passed through the station, most of them on their way to work.
After 3 minutes a middle-aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried to meet his schedule.
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On a sunny day last week, I walked through the historic Sydney suburb of Glebe for no other purpose than to enjoy a cafe lunch and browse 2nd hand book stores.
What I was to discover, however, was startling proof of “The Entrepreneur’s Dilemma”.
This is a social-psychological phenomena that plagues innocent business owners – sowing the seeds of self-doubt and financial disaster.
Want to know what it is?
I was recently invited to give a talk on the basics of leadership – at a closed door corporate event which one of my clients hosted for their retail management staff.
It was out in the mountains – I got to fly back to the city while the managers face three days of leadership/team metaphor… a.k.a. Gruelling physical challenge.
The very cool, diverse group of people helped me figure out (and apply real world examples to) the following psychological criteria for exceptional leadership.
Best of all, it’s a acronym (who needs another numbered list anyway?):
There is one technique that stands out from all the rest. The world’s most successful entrepreneurs and business people often share this strategy in common.
It isn’t an NLP technique or some other kind of tool (in fact, it’s hardly psychological). Read on to find out…
