Accelus Insights:
The Leadership Narrative

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...

Sometimes an idea or project we would like to achieve seems nearly impossible. Yet once we open ourselves to the possibility, that we embrace it rather than dismiss it, incredible things can happen. A few weeks back my trainer, Marie Morgan, opened my eyes to the possibility that my horse...

Third Article in the Series: Pulling It All Together Early in the year, we focused on understanding your Strengths and what you do best. When we design our days so that 75% of our time is spent working in our Strengths, we accomplish much more and are energized, not depleted,...