“Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.” - W. Clement Stone Hang with the Best! Surround yourself with people who will inspire and equip you to do more than you ca...

Leaders care for the whole person - "Body, mind, spirit, voice - it takes the whole person to sing and rejoice." - Helen Kemp   - We are complex. We are spiritual beings in a physical body. We are multi-dimensional.

The Leader's Journey is a Spiritual Journey - Philippians 4:8  Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—...

“Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.” ― Napoleon Hill   Bread for the Journey of Personal Growth

Here's the Transcript of the Interview Hugh Ballou: Hey, it’s Hugh Ballou. Welcome to Orchestrating Success. I have a new friend, and man, we’ve connect...

Tom Poland is a Marketing Mentor who started his first business at age 24 and has gone on to start and sell four others, taking two of them international. In that time he’s managed teams of over 100 people and annual revenue of more than 20 million.

Words, words, words. Our society is full of words: on billboards, on television screens, in newspapers and books.... With so many words around us, we quickly say: “Well, they’re just words.” Thus, words have lost much of their power.

Interview Transcription Hugh Ballou: Greetings, it’s Hugh Ballou. My guest today is a long-time friend and colleague, Linda Ruhland. Linda has a lot of superpowers. She’s got some unique gifts. Not alone from those gifts is her wonderful,

The Art of Significance with Dan Clark Hugh Ballou: It’s Hugh Ballou. Welcome to this special edition of the Orchestrating Success podcast. My guest today is my dear friend, Dan Clark, who is a very impactful speaker. He is a primary person of influ...

I once saw a reporter stop a man on the street and ask him what he thought about apathy and indifference. He responded with, “I don’t know and I don’t care!" - A friend once told me, humorously, that I should be sincere whether or not I meant it. Funny,

The Leadership Challenge - The #1 complaint I hear from leaders: that they, as leaders, do too much and their teams do too little. Leaders blame others for what they create. There is a reciprocity in over-functioning.

A Culture is a Reflection of the Leader, Part 2 - “Perform every act in life as though it were your last.” - Marcus Aurelius, the Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD - It's essential for leaders to develop skills and awareness to impact the culture posi...

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. - James Allen - Leaders Model What Others Should Do As a musical conductor, I know that the ensemble is a reflection of the conduct...

Leadership IS Influence We confuse authority with influence, when in fact, we must influence others to be perceived as a leader. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. - John Quincy Adams

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. - Martin Luther King, Jr. - This is an ongoing conversation that comes up with about every organization that I work with. I find that people universally don’t understand the ...

Sandy Papavero works with excited entrepreneurs who have a passion for their business but might not have the experience to manage the financial part of their business. Unfortunately most entrepreneurs I meet aren’t even aware that they are driving them...

Leadership is a container, which supports healthy growth for people like a garden supports healthy growth for plants. Planting the seeds is just the beginning. The health depends on constant feeding and care. - Hugh Ballou -

David A. Duryea is business improvement veteran with more than thirty-two years of experience in practical business improvement and technology innovation. He has led more than sixty business improvement and innovation projects in sixteen different indu...

Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all. - – Emily Dickinson - Once, upon hearing a person tell me that he had worked continuously for four years with no vacation,

Let’s focus on Success! That means accomplishing what we set out to accomplish! - According to the research… D & B determined that 90% of entrepreneurs fail due to the lack of skill… The Myer Foundation discovered that 45% of nonprofit leade...

Kelly Holmes on Networking - http://teamreferralnetwork.com - Welcome to TEAM Referral Network, where we are passionate about networking and connecting you with the right professionals to grow your business.

It’s interesting to observe in the news accounts of politics the fact that people with opposing opinions both claim to be precisely correct. Is there a danger in claiming to be right? - I observe that there is typically common ground in diverse points...

Nathan Hirsch from Free Up shares his outsourcing secrets. - Nate is the CEO of FreeeUp.com and the COO of Portlight. Nate has been an entrepreneur in the eCommerce industry since 2009 and has grown into a leading expert in the field with experience m...

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change. – Stephen Covey - Leadership Blind Spots -  In o...

“Being listened to is so close to being loved that most people cannot tell the difference.” –David Oxberg - The Leadership Skills of The Musical Conductor - Listening is a primary skill for the Transformational Leader.