While I was playing with my dogs the other day - I realized it's thoroughly enjoying to work with others and rewarding to watch their improvement and growth. Coaching is more a role of giving directive and personal instruction whereas the goal of training is to integrate a systematic business practice practice – through repetition therefore creating culture. I was watching a Visionary Basketball workout yesterday with the 5th grade team. The instructor, Anthony Taylor drilled fundamental repetition...
Is it true that we learn the most about ourselves and our business during difficult times? Having helped grow both small businesses and Fortune 1000 corporations, we have learned that the principals of "what" makes a successful business are the same, despite size. During the Summer of 1999 while working in the financial district with FleetBoston Financial as Fleet and BankBoston merged (now Bank of America) at the age of twenty,...