All Posts Tagged With: "Phil Hughes"

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Coaching with Your Ears: Can You Hear That?

“God gave us two ears and one mouth. Do the math.”
I remember being a little kid and watching my Dad coach football.  (My Dad, also named Phil Hughes, coached the linemen for St. Francis Xavier X-Men for 35 years…his hobby as he was also a High School vice principal.)  I remember wondering what it [...]

May 18th, 2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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The 80/20 Rule is Wishfull Thinking

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” Wayne Gretzky
“And roughly 97% of the shots you do…” Phil Hughes
We’re all familiar by now with the infamous 80/20 Rule which basically states that 80% of the time you spend is wasted and that only 20% is usefull.  Another way of looking at it is that [...]

March 29th, 2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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How to Get More Done and Enjoy the Process

“Everything that happens to me is the best thing that could happen to me” Jim Carey
There are about as many ways of saying ‘look on the bright side’ as there are people who say it.  Not that that’s a bad thing…hell I once heard that Hawaian’s have a bunch of ways to say ‘I love [...]

March 18th, 2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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3 Questions to Get to Heart of the Matter

What’s your elevator speech?
If you’ve been around the marketing block a few times you know what I’m talking about.  It’s the “imagine you’re in an elevator with the perfect prospect and he/she asks you what you do.” moment speech.  Most of us at one time have either done the exercise or procrastinated the hell out [...]

March 11th, 2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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What’s More Important?

What are the most important things in your life? Seems like a crazy question to ask, coming from a marketing guy. But considering the challenges faced by many companies in this economy it’s a pretty good one. Tony Blauer, one of the world’s leading authorities on fear, created the 3 P’s formula

January 31st, 2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued