There is less competition going for the top than those shooting for mediocrity. The first time I heard this, I thought it was BS. Then I started looking around at the people that really go for the top and there aren’t many. I have found most people target mediocrity so that’s exactly what they get....

For the last 10 years I have studied success in business, marketing, networking, sales, and just plain personal success. The one thing I can tell you that finally became painfully clear reading the book, Breakthrough Companies, 220 books in is,  there is no such thing as a ‘Rugged Individual’...

Many of us came through the end of last year feeling a little beat up by the economy. We felt like we were moving our business towards our goals to hit a sudden glass ceiling. This is the six year of owning my own small business and what I have learned to do. . . that I think really helps not only me,...

I don’t know if you know this but Benjamin Franklin started an organization that, as near as my amateur historian skills can tell, was the first networking organization in the United States. It started in 1727 and was called the Junto, “a group of like minded aspiring artisans and tradesmen who hoped...