Beth Terry | December 27, 2008
Remember, when you succeed, we all do.
Small businesses are the most powerful Economic Engine in the world! I believe the small business people of the world are the ones who will pull the world back from the brink of economic disaster. I believe you can do this. Let’s save the world together, one small business at a time!
Beth Terry | December 13, 2008
As much as I want you to stand up and be counted, I also want you to have the energy and the confidence to keep moving forward. In that spirit, I created two f_ree ebooks to lift you up and give you some courage. One is for Managers and Business Owners who are trying to motivate their employees during this economic insanity. The second is for everyone trying to find their way out of this mess. They are simple PDF files, about a dozen pages long. Easy to download and easy to view over and over. You will find them here.
Beth Terry | November 28, 2008
Black Friday - the day retailers hope will put their books “in the Black” - ie - make them profitable. The problem? The nonstop media coverage of impending disaster clashes with the consumer-driven ads this time of year. The result? A sense of Hopelessness and Helplessness. Heaviness of heart.
Whether you are a retailer, a […]
Beth Terry | October 8, 2008
It’s nuts out there. But you knew that. Just did a seminar yesterday for one of my favorite clients out here in Hawaii. Kamehameha Schools has over 100 year-history of providing education for the children of Hawaii. I love those people. Every time I get to train on their campus, I can feel the real […]
Beth Terry | September 16, 2008
In my business we see a lot of celebrities. Often we’ll be one of the other keynote or breakout speakers after a big name gives a lunch speech. One difference I’ve noted (besides the fact they make obscene amounts of money more than me!) is they have “people.” In the past year I’ve spoken […]
Beth Terry | June 2, 2008
The secret to maintaining an effective and successful volunteer organization is to remember “volunteer” is the operative word.
Too many volunteer organization leaders act as if they are running a Fortune 500 company. They forget that the volunteers are there because they get value from volunteering. If the value goes away, so do the volunteers.
All organizations […]
Beth Terry | May 31, 2008
It was a familiar noise, the distinctive cleng cleng of a child’s bicycle. A very patient daddy rode slowly alongside his pink-helmeted little one on her matching bike. “That’s good. Slow and steady. Good. Keep the handlebars straight ahead. Looking good, sweetie.”
A wave of nostalgia washed over me. Untold decades ago I was on that […]
Beth Terry | May 23, 2008
There are pundits who say there are no generation gaps. Others say it’s too wide a gap to mend. Of course there’s a gap, and yes, we can figure this out.
Part of the “gap” in generations is just biology. As we age and take on new responsibilities, we have a different focus. Twenty-somethings are […]
Beth Terry | April 4, 2008
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw
Forty years ago today, an unreasonable man was assassinated. He was 39. I remember it as if it were yesterday. Just as we all […]
Beth Terry | February 26, 2008
We think we need all the answers. That’s why you opened this, yes? I don’t know that we need to go in search of answers to all the troubles in the world. I think we need to go in search of the questions.
Haven’t you noticed that answers show up when you ask the right questions? […]
The way I see it, Cactus is the most resilient plant in the desert. If you find yourself stuck out on the desert and you can get past the thorns, its fruit will save your life. The same goes for us human critters. If we can get past the thorns of our own life, what we find in our core will save us and sustain us.
