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Doing It All Yourself

Post author:David Greer
Post published:June 9, 2016
Post category:Leadership Strategy
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Things were tense onboard Van Kedisi. The four of us had sailed that morning from Los Christianos on the island of Tenerife. We were approaching San Sebastian on the island of La Gomera, Christopher Columbus’ launching point for sailing across the Atlantic Ocean. All four of us onboard were working together to spot the entrance channel and the tiny opening to the harbour as we passed massive ferries on the commercial dock. On a sailboat you all have to work together because your lives depend on it. In this instance grounding out on a rock or hitting the breakwater would not likely have cost us our lives, but it would have done serious damage to Van Kedisi scuttling our well laid plans to sail across the Atlantic together.

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Plan Your Day

Post author:David Greer
Post published:March 17, 2016
Post category:Business Performance
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In 4 Vital Actions, I present four areas of your day where you should focus: start, plan, connections, and finish. How and when you plan your day has a massive impact on how your day works out. What path are you going to choose for the mountains you need to climb? How will you communicate to your team what route they need to take?

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Plan to Succeed

Post author:David Greer
Post published:January 29, 2016
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You stand up to present to your entire company. Together all of you moved through the challenges of the last year. After the polite applause died down, you press the forward button on your remote control. No one except you know for sure whether the ambitious goals that you and your senior team together came up with were achieved. Instead of showing financial numbers and progress against your goals, you show them a picture of the strip in Las Vegas. Cheering erupts in the room as everyone realizes that the each of them and their spouses are going to Las Vegas for three days to celebrate achieving those very goals you put in front of them a year ago.

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Change to Grow

Post author:David Greer
Post published:September 8, 2015
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Thirteen years ago, we sailed from Kos, Greece to Bodrum, Turkey. It was the last and shortest crossing between two countries of the two years that we lived and sailed in the Mediterranean. Our son Kevin was twelve as we sailed across the Aegean Sea. We have seen enormous change in Kevin over the intervening years as he met challenges, changed, and grew.

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Tack, White, and Innovate

Post author:David Greer
Post published:September 3, 2015
Post category:Business Strategy
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Over the last few months, I have been fortunate to be interviewed on these three podcasts. Each of the interviewers are interesting entrepreneurs in their own right. In this post, I give a short summary of each of the podcast shows along with a link to each of my interviews so that you can listen to them yourself. All of these interviews include topics from my book Wind In Your Sails: Vital Strategies That Accelerate Your Entrepreneurial Success.

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