Accelus Insights:
The Leadership Narrative

Welcome to the New Year! I hope you have enjoyed a wonderful time with friends and family. Perhaps some travel or sleeping in was part of your celebration. Maybe you also found some time for reflection and planning for the year ahead. Regular readers of this message will know that...

That is a bit of a strange title for a Top 10 list, I admit. Yet as I looked back on the year, these tools had the most profound effect on my work and personal life, with the exception of one. As we come to the end of the year...

Leaving a breakfast meeting earlier this week, I passed the office of a gentleman I had seen just over one week ago. We had spent extensive time together visiting with each other and our spouses over meals on the Thanksgiving Day holiday, as we were guests at the same duck...

So many of us look forward to the day when we finally get caught up and can focus on the future, near and longer-term. Once we get that to-do list done, we will be able to do just that! Stop kidding yourself! We know that it will never happen that...

Thanksgiving week provided the opportunity to review the year (not quite complete but almost!) and begin laying plans for the next. The first draft of the review was completed on Monday and planning for the year ahead was begun on Tuesday. Late Tuesday, I added the necessary files to my...

Fourth Article in the Series: Pulling It All Together If you look back at last week’s post on Designing Your Day, you will notice that I did nothing administrative that day. Everything was client or marketing/prospect-oriented and played to my strengths. I run a small business, just like many of...