You may or may not be a fan of the NBA. I know that I tend to get a bit more interested in the league around playoff times. It seems in professional basketball…it’s all about the playoffs. There’s a lot of news coming out of the Miami Heat. Expectations had been high at the start of this season because of …
10 Lessons For Leading Like A Champion
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be on a championship team? To be the one who hoists the shiny trophy at the end of a hard fought season? What if you weren’t only on the team…what if you were the leader of that team? All of us have those moments where we envision ourselves standing at …
Book Review: Acting Up Brings Everyone Down
I first heard of Nick McCormick when he sent me a copy of his first book, Lead Well and Prosper. It was a fairly quick read (short chapters with great summary statements at the end) chocked full of helpful leadership advice. So you might have guessed I was (very) pleasantly surprised to know that Nick had written another book. He …
10 Tips To Take Your Leadership To The Next Level
It’s Top 10 Week here at timmilburn.com. Check out the first two lists here and here. Mark Victor Hansen gives great wisdom when he says, “Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will …
10 Suggestions To Save Your Speech
It’s difficult to get people’s attention. It’s even harder to keep people’s attention. Making a speech is part communication, part theater. That’s right, you’re an actor/actress on a stage. You finally get your chance to make your presentation, your talk, your big speech. Now that you have their attention, you must now spend your precious time entertaining, as well as …
10 Strategies To Grow In Your Influence With Others
Welcome to Top 10 Week. Each day, I’ll be publishing an article that includes a Top 10 list of ideas, tips, or strategies (like today) that will help you be a better leader. Everyone loves a good Top 10 list. I’m going to offer you some of mine and let you decide if they’re good. One of the top skills …
Making The Most Of My Drive Time
I have a 35-40 minute commute from home to work each day. That adds up to over an hour in the car with each round trip (I just did the math in my head). Now let me say right up front that the priority of my drive time is driving. There’s too many distractions that keep people from concentrating on …
5 Ways To Love Your Blogger
If you’ve ever thought of starting your own blog, here’s an amazing stat to consider: There are over 27 million WordPress publishers as of September 2010: 13.9 million blogs hosted on WordPress.com plus 13.8 million active installations of the WordPress.org software. Did you notice the stat is only for WordPress blogs (I publish this site through WordPress with the Standard …