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Recently I had the fun experience of visiting the set of American Idol for the live taping and behind the scenes look. It’s so easy to forget (when you’ve been out of the behind-the-scenes loop for a bit) the enormous amount of work and detail that goes into what the general public views in a concise and efficient one hour television airing. The amount of effort, collaboration, attention-to-detail and expertise that...

We live in a time when the ability to create & innovate will be the ultimate success ticket. Our society and economy has moved away from the industrial arena and into the service arena. We spend more time servicing creations than actually creating. But that’s been changing of late. Entrepreneurship is on the rise in industrialized nations, and the skill set to thrive and survive is changing. Creativity and innovation is...

A positive mindset. That’s it. That’s really all it takes to succeed. Because, with a positive mindset you will

•Attract teams that want to collaborate
•Encourage creativity within yourself and others
•Identify team members who are flexible and think outside the box
•Problem solve effectively instead of in a reactionary manner
•Encourage people to want to be on your team and help you work towards goals
•Harness the entrepreneurial spirit that anything is possible as long as...

Sometimes things don’t go as planned. In fact sometimes it seems as though ‘sometimes’ happens all the time. That is, things don’t often seem to go as planned. Last week I had a terror of an experience with my email account through my web-hosting site. And then there was the broadcast of an important televised event where things really did not go as planned. In fact, as I watched the event...

There’s always that one monkey wrench that gets thrown in your way at some point on a project, in your path on the way toward a goal, hanging in the sidelines, dooming completion, throwing you for a loop, -- -and it’s okay, really.

We have this tendency to want order in our efforts – of course everyone wants things to stay the course, go as planned. But that’s just not the...

I recently completed a consulting project for a global hotel chain where about 15 different consultants were brought together to solve a problem inadvertently affecting the bottom line. Each of us came with varied backgrounds and consulting experiences. The most amazing part of the project, in addition to anticipated affects on long-term profitability, was how our different backgrounds fostered an incredible think tank of solutions and ideas. The...

"Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted."

-- Denis Waitley

Here it is: Top 10 that we're all guilty of. Read them & weep, or read them and make some changes now... before it's too late and you're left feeling angry and resentful during this ‘joyous' time of the year.

1. Cutting out routine exercise to fit in things we really don't...

It’s been an intense beginning of the year for many, Lines Of Excellence Consulting (LOE) included. We’ve been analyzing how to best serve our clients by offering our expertise in helping them to meet their ever-changing and stressful needs. We’ve revamped our stress management seminars to include a variety of current factors that are prevalent in the workplace, such as:

· Managing increased...

Everywhere I go people show a desire to connect. I hear it at a networking event, training program, online, off-line.

They want the human contact, they don’t just want to be on the computer, learning at a webinar, chatting in a chat room They want the one-on-one, they want to be in a relationship with others. They realize the power of relationships, but they’re not attending networking events and...

Just want to set the record straight – as a native New Yorker, it’s simply fact that I’m writing about the Yankees World Series win last night, using them as an exceptional example of teamwork. Now I understand the criticism, when you can ‘buy’ teamwork at the price the Yankees can afford it’s easy to undervalue the reality of what that team actually produces. Nonetheless, with an unprecedented history...