Motivation on the Run

Eighth graders … are you kidding me. I couldn’t even spell Wall Street when I was in the eighth grade. Three more weeks to a great trip to New York City and the motivation to continue will be nurtured for quite some time.
JS Online: Waukesha County School Notes
A team of Brookfield Academy eighth-grade students was [...]

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It is good to see Malaysia realizing the need to teach leadership and entrepreneurial skills. I have heard of a few programs here in the US, but I think more would be better.
Nurturing leadership and business skills
THERE is a new focus on leadership qualities which are vital in the new economy of the 21st century. [...]

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This from a new weekly column on issues that concern Small Business written by Jerry Osteryoung. He starts out with the topic of motivating the salesmen and how important it is. He is certainly right.
Bradenton Herald | 12/17/2005 | Energize staff with rewards
Many firms have awards for the “top” salesperson, which is great, but, [...]

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In real life, staying positive and enthusiastic is difficult and anyone saying differently is fooling himself. Even the most positive people I know, have days where you can see the strain in their eyes as they work to stay enthusiastic. But they try…
If you can’t keep up a positive attitude, do you have a character [...]

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This is a good read and I am looking forward to the follow-up piece. With advice, it is usually worth what you pay for it, and nothing more. And then there is paralysis by analysis that can set in. All very interesting…
Techworld.com - The best advice I ever got, part 1
As advice columnist Ann Landers [...]

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 Motivation28 [24:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This podcast is a conversation between Chris Lofquist of Denmark and me about a great success story from his business experience. Real life happens and this shows that success can come even when things look discouraging. A real story of leadership and motivation.

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Learning the lessons of personality types and how to motivate each one is a challenge everyone in management must come to grips with. I think Jeffrey, like most of us, try to manage by how we like to be managed. This seems to be a natural thing to do. Those that are self starters, assume [...]

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 Motivation27 [23:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

What a busy time of year it is with Thanksgiving just past, Christmas and New Year’s coming in a few weeks. I talk about the being busy and brainstorm about future topics. There is a little teaser about Chris Lofquist and our future podcast and a quick comment about something in Selling Power magazine. As [...]

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Listener Dave posted a comment to my question about converting the audio files of Motivation on the Run to text for searching and content posting. He found several free services on the web that offer this service and one of them is PODZINGER.
I filled in their form and submitted the link and they have now [...]

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I keep talking about these very issues on the podcast and here is more evidence that the current crop of managers don’t understand motivation at all. The link requires registration, but is free and SellingPower.com had never abused my inbox, so it should be OK.
Selling Power | Incentives Newsletter
Most managers are familiar with the so-called [...]

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