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Questioning Your Business Innovation

My friend and fellow motivational speaker (I could also include “Seattle business legend” and “self made millionaire”) Sunny Kobe Cook has an interesting theory, and one with which I agree:

Being innovative in business usually starts with a question.

Asking a question is one of the best ways to spark creativity and innovation, either individually or within a team. Why? Because our brains will try their best to answer whatever question(s) we put to ...

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2014

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Change, Creativity, Producing Results

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Ready or Not, It’s Jimmy Fallon!

Posted by: Bill Stainton

Tonight, Jimmy Fallon premieres as host of The Tonight Show–even if everything’s not perfect. Your business is no different, and in this clip I’ll tell you why.

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Change, Producing Results, Videos, Work Ethic

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Is Your Business Impossible to Ignore?

Posted by: Bill Stainton

When the Beatles first appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show some 50 years ago, none of us could have predicted the unprecedented heights they would subsequently scale. Yet they still electrified the nation. What was it about them that was so captivating–and, more important, how can we apply these lessons to our own businesses?

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Creativity, Customer Service, Producing Results, Sales, The Beatles

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What Can You Learn from “Shark Tank”?

Posted by: Bill Stainton

Have you ever watched the TV show Shark Tank? Or, if TV’s not your thing, maybe you’ve read the spin-off book: Shark Tank Jump Start Your Business: How to Launch and Grow a Business from Concept to Cash.

Basically, it’s a show where ...

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Producing Results, Sales

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Why Everybody is Wrong About This Common Adage

Posted by: Bill Stainton

[quote style=”boxed”]If you keep doing what you’ve always been doing, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always gotten.[/quote]

I’m sure you’ve heard some version of this. You’ve read it in a dozen books, you’ve heard it in a dozen motivational speeches. (And, by the way, if that last part is true, congratulations on surviving a dozen motivational speeches.)

“If you keep doing what you’ve always been doing, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always gotten.”

I’d like to respectfully disagree. Actually, I’d like to vehemently ...

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2014

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Stop Aiming and Fire the Arrow!

Posted by: Bill Stainton

Lorne Michaels—the creator and producer of Saturday Night Live—and I have several things in common:

We’ve both produced a multiple Emmy Award winning sketch comedy TV show.
We’ve both spawned national talent (in my case, Joel McHale and Bill Nye the Science Guy; in Lorne’s case, everybody else that you’ve ever heard of).
We’re both multi-gazillionaires (measured, in Lorne’s case, in U.S. dollars; ...

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2013

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Leadership, Producing Results, Sales

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Leaders: Do You Know What Your Show Is?

Posted by: Bill Stainton

On September 26, 1990, a brand new show premiered on ABC, and television history was made. This show broke the rules, defied expectations, and was unlike anything anybody had ever seen before. The reason I say the show made history is because TV Guide rated it number 8 in their list of the 50 worst TV shows of all time. The show was called Cop Rock, and it ...

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2013

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Is This Why You’re Not Getting “Buy-in” From Your Team?

Posted by: Bill Stainton

One of the biggest benefits of being a motivational speaker is that I get to work with many different organizations in many different industries. Because of this, I can sometimes see patterns that others who work within just one sector can miss. (I can also sometimes hear voices that others don’t hear, but that’s a different conversation altogether. And the medication helps.)

One common refrain that I hear from leaders across the board is this:

[quote]I ... Continue Reading →

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JUL
2013

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Producing Results, Teams

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Embrace the Messy Part!

Posted by: Bill Stainton

Messy is good.

A recent article in The Wall Street Journal talks about leadership and creativity (one of my favorite topics, and the focus of my keynote program The Emmy Effect: How to Develop and Lead Award Winning Talent and Teams). In the article, author Justin Brady says:

[quote]Most leaders talk about creativity (or its cousin, innovation) without understanding what it is and how it happens. The process of real creativity is messy, chaotic, sometimes even disgusting, and ... Continue Reading →

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JUN
2013

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Producing Results, Work Ethic

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Wanna Buy a Fake Egg? Neither Do Your Customers!

Posted by: Bill Stainton

I’m a geek.

How much of a geek? I am a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians (IBM). Need I say more? IBM has a monthly magazine called The Linking Ring, and there’s a regular column that reviews magic tricks, books, and apparatus. In the most recent issue there is a product review that ends with this sentence:

[quote style=”boxed”]So if you are looking for a fake egg that compresses into a relatively small space and pops back into its ... Continue Reading →

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Customer Service, Producing Results, Sales

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