Author: Dennis Roberts on
20 September 2011
Entrepreneurs are some of the most challenging yet rewarding clients a professional coach may attract. They possess unique traits and if understood and appreciated can make for the most rewarding coach/client relationship. Many coaches fail to appreciate the unique qualities of an entrepreneur and how to approach the client relationship.
Author: Dennis Roberts on
6 September 2011
For some, the worlds of negotiation and integrity may seem poles apart. How can you ensure you get what you want while still retaining your integrity? Well, according to sales guru Jack Collis, negotiators fall into one of three categories:
Author: Dennis Roberts on
29 August 2011
It is important to understand one important aspect of wealth creation and it is this – wealth is derived from the OWNERSHIP of assets or as economists describe "the means of production." And it is in this concept of ownership where the masculine and feminine polarities part company.
Author: Dennis Roberts on
9 August 2011
The dogs are barking, or more particularly, the bears are growling. With most of the western world feeling the pinch there will be an inevitable flow on to the Australian economy and your business.
Author: Dennis Roberts on
1 August 2011
In many industries we have just entered a new financial year and, for that matter, closed off the old year. So I'm guessing you have been busy with business and financial plans, annual performance reviews, tax and statutory returns, and maybe even salary reviews and bonuses. Yet none of these is the most important day-to-day activity you as an enterprise leader can perform right now.
Author: Dennis Roberts on
25 July 2011
There are two points in time to consider. Where you are now and where you want to be. The critical first step in creating a vision of your future, or the future of your business, is to disrupt this time orientation.
Author: Dennis Roberts on
12 July 2011
We live in an increasingly fast-paced, volatile environment, one where it seems that the only constant is change.
Author: Dennis Roberts on
29 June 2011
Diversity programs serve to highlight differences. They are born against a backdrop of competition, differentiation and scarcity. And yet they stand or fall not on how effective they are at highlighting our differences, but in how effective they are at highlighting that we are born of one cloth.
Author: Dennis Roberts on
20 June 2011
“… spiritually the female will now have her turn to lead mankind into the New Light. And eventually, this female spiritual light will permeate the entire range of human experience from female leaders in business and religion to female leaders of state ... this female light will become so strong as to become obvious to all who live on this dear planet and will continue to grow for thousands of years.”
Drunvalo Melchizedek, The Serpent of Light
To explain masculine and feminine energy and how it inter-relates, the ancient Chinese view was that all things co-existed in relationship with nature and everything studied formed part of a holistic perspective. No single element existed in isolation. There was perfect symmetry in the dualistic nature of night and day, water and fire, active and passive, masculine and feminine.
Author: Dennis Roberts on
30 May 2011
In many small businesses word-of-mouth referrals are the primary source of leads. So should you reward the referrer by offering a reward or incentive, or trust that the karmic law will prevail and you will be duly rewarded by divine providence?