Fluid Power Journal

Tour de Force: How to Get Much More Out of Your Customer Tours

Often a conversation with your customer isn’t enough. When you want to provide great new products that truly add value, you need to see what your customers …

Keys to Peer Leadership: An Unlikely Source

As a small business CEO observed a window washer at the Atlanta airport one day, she asked what she thought to be a straightforward question: “What’s the …

Motivation Needed Now More Than Ever: Four Steps That Work

This may seem counterintuitive to task-driven managers who focus on the news headlines and the bottom number in their ledger. Granted, the economy is shaky, …

How Relationship Marketing Can Help Your Business During Bad Economic Times

Can a bad economy put a dent in your sales? Sara, a colleague of mine, thought so as she watched her sales decline during the last six months. Like most of us, …

Lead Unconventionally and Beat the Competition

Leaders inspire people to do amazing things—the type of things that their followers would not do on their own. With leadership, a vision and competitive …

Eight Ways to Be Memorable at Networking Events

There is no point going anywhere if people don’t remember you were there! Networking is an important part of building your business and developing good …

Great Leadership Starts With Leading an Organization of One

All leadership begins with “self leadership.” Before a leader can aspire to lead a thriving enterprise, he must first master leading an organization of …