Category: Leadership Strategies
Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - January 27, 2012 - Business Strategy, Leadership Strategies, Success Strategies
Anita said that what saved The Body Shop over and over was their willingness to recognize what wasn’t working and quickly identify a new way to approach a problem. This is a crucial strategy because everyone who starts a business is going to face challenges. Things never work out exactly as intended and creativity will play a key role in enabling a new business owner to conquer daily battles. If you don’t come up with alternative solutions, your dreams will die.
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - January 11, 2012 - Leadership Strategies, LIfe Purpose
Guest Article By Robin Fisher Roffer, Big Fish Marketing (Discover more great wisdom on Reinvention during Answering The Call Virtual Summit, starting February 7th) Strategies for responding to “Tell me about yourself” Last week I was in a pitch meeting with a television network. I was in the president’s office seated with six of his [...]
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - January 9, 2012 - Leadership Strategies, Outsourcing/Team/Delegation
After years and years of building my business I know it’s a heck of a lot more fun (and a lot less work) to raise a vision when you have a village of people supporting you! I’ve always had a team. To me that’s a no-brainer. But sometimes I lose sight of the other important [...]
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - January 3, 2012 - Leadership Strategies
As I wrap up the year I do a process to take inventory of what transpired as part of my refocusing on new accomplishments. I always like to explore what decisions I made that moved me closer to my goals and aspirations – and which ones took me off track. I recognize the worst decisions [...]
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - September 20, 2011 - Leadership Strategies
In 2001 I discovered I was a much better entrepreneur than I was a corporate ladder climber. As I turned in my 2-week notice at Motorola after 10 years in business, I was ecstatic to finally be my own boss. Over the next 18 months I was broke, frustrated, overwhelmed and doubting my ability to [...]
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - July 26, 2011 - Leadership Strategies
I’ve been seeing a lot of “information” lately about being a leader or a follower. What I’ve come to understand is a lot of mentors, gurus and marketers need you to be a follower. Followers do what they are told. Which means followers will probably spend a lot more money with their “guru” and will [...]
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - June 15, 2011 - Leadership Strategies
You may have noticed that I recently shifted how I talk about the work I do – I’ve released all the positioning of being a million dollar lifestyle business coach and totally synced up with helping thought leaders get liberated from the daily grind. Of course as soon as I started telling people I work [...]
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - June 1, 2011 - Leadership Strategies
Somewhere between the noise of guru’s shouting about their million dollar successes and the constant barrage of emails in you inbox revealing the coolest resources on the planet is a little voice deep inside of you that knows exactly what your big idea is. You have a feeling about what you’re meant to do. You [...]
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - May 25, 2011 - Leadership Strategies
This year I’m celebrating my ten year anniversary in business (well eleven if you count the year I spent working in Corporate AND learning how to be a coach.) During these ten years I’ve learned a lot about success, business and what it takes to consistently generate a six (and seven) figure business. On this [...]
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - April 27, 2011 - Leadership Strategies
I’ve been reading Guy Kawasaki’s new book Enchantment when I had an eureka moment. As I’m reading about transparency as a leader I’m thinking — there is way too many people who don’t get this! Then this morning I read this passage on “Be a Mensch”: Mensch is a German word for “human being, ” [...]
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - April 5, 2011 - Leadership Strategies
In 2009 I hit a wall. It could have been because the disappointment and crushing financial blow I experienced when the economy had a major shift right when I launched a very expensive live event – and people stopped traveling. It could have been that my partner decided to do her own thing after almost [...]
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - April 1, 2011 - Leadership Strategies
The other day I got out of the shower to find my dog Dante staggering around my bedroom like this (its beyond funny so I had to share): Apparently Dante was so enraptured by the scent of butter that he buried his head into the bottom of the bag trying to get all the popcorn [...]
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Melanie Benson Strick, the Big Idea Catalyst, helps thought leaders uncover the biggest way to unleash their brilliance without losing their sanity or their soul. With over 12 years in corporate America and eight years as a business owner, Melanie works exclusively with big thinking, heart-based entrepreneurs who are frustrated trying to run a successful business. Co-author of Entrepreneur.com’s “Start Up Guide to an Information Marketing Business” and faculty member for StomperNet, Melanie has a solid reputation for authentic but direct training and mentoring on 6 figure plus business success.