A Bad Lip Reading of the NFL
Now they need to do one of these with sales leaders.
Nathan Jamail is a keynote speaker and bestselling author of 5 books, including his most recent “Serve Up & Coach Down.” With over 25 years of leadership in Corporate America as a top Director of Sales and a small business owner of several companies, his clients have come to know him as “The Real Deal.” Nathan has taught great leaders from across the world and shows organizations how to have a “Serve Up Mindset” to achieve maximum success. His expertise doesn’t come just from research or interviews. It’s from living the life of leadership for over 25 years. As a sales leadership keynote speaker and author who works with thousands every year, he challenges leaders to be the best version of themselves and settle for nothing less! Check out Nathan Jamail’s books, articles, keynote presentations, and blogs at NathanJamail.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.
Stan Musial Quotes
“The first principle of contract negotiations is don’t remind them of what you did in the past – tell them what you’re going to do in the future.” “I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion.” “On an All-Star Team, I vote for players of one kind-those I enjoy…
Unbreakable Comb Sales Joke
A salesman was demonstrating unbreakable combs in a department store. He was impressing the people who stopped by to look by putting the comb through all sorts of torture and stress. Finally to impress even the skeptics in the crowd, he bent the comb completely in half, and it snapped with a loud crack. Without…
Seek Excellence in What You Love
There’s an old saying: Do what you love. I agree with this sage advice, but success takes more than doing what you love doing. It’s necessary, but not sufficient. In addition to doing what you love, you have to seek excellence in what you love. If you enjoy playing football, you still have to practice…
The Leadership Example of Captain America
Late in The Avengers, New York City is under assault by alien forces spiraling out of a portal in the sky. The superheroes fight valiantly, but they’re overrun and need the aid of the local police. Seeing an officer in authority, Captain America rushes to him and tells him what needs to be done to…
Social Media
Facebook and Twitter can be effective tools to getting your message out and growing your business. I use them myself. They are not, however, the sort of instruments that you can rely on. They give you a presence, a boost, but no business succeeds because they have accounts on social media. These have to serve…
The Biggest Obstacle to Practicing
The biggest obstacle to practicing is you. If you are a leader, then you have to fight the temptation to assume that since your sales teams have been selling for years they don’t need to practice. The difference between the amateurs and the professionals is not their tenure but their commitment to practice and getting…
Business Culture in The Avengers
The other day we showed our son his first live-action super hero movie, Joss Whedon’s The Avengers, a movie in part about the creation of a successful culture. When the super heroes are first brought together, one of them describes their grouping as a time-bomb, as opposed to a team. They don’t get along well…
A Company Culture
Coaching involves much more than actions and skills. Coaching is a culture that creates and multiplies success. A coaching culture, like any culture, must have laws, beliefs and consequences for success and for failure. It’s not enough to say you want or you have a winning coaching culture; you as a leader have to work…