I am not, nor have I ever been, a morning person. Even at birth, I didn’t want to ‘wake up’ (I was 4 weeks over my due date- keep in mind this was in the 70’s…)
In grade school, I got scolded a lot from my mother to ‘get back to bed’ when I would...

A few weeks ago I wrote about one of our clients whose sales manager who still sold and would take opportunities from him. He was a generally toxic manager that was a burden to work with.
On a previous coaching call when our client, let’s call him...
First thing on Monday morning one of our inside sales clients, let’s call him Scott, told us that their manager insisted that they send a proposal to all the opportunities in their pipeline that “might possibly close this month.” Didn’t matter what...
Yesterday was the beginning of 4Q16 (the beginning of the end), and I got up early to make sure I had time for plenty of coffee, yoga and reflection before I started the day with 90 minutes of back to back coaching calls at 8am. It`s not very often...
This is a question that came up several times last week and twice this week already. First was from a current client who is a salesperson at a small but growth focused technology company. Like many other small and growing companies, there is a small...