Pete’s Blog
You lead your business, it shouldn’t be leading you. This blog is designed to bring you the tips and tools that will propel you to a bigger, more focused future for your life and business!
Can You Be Both A Good Salesperson and a Good Human?
As I’ve often discussed in my writings and podcasts, entrepreneurship always involves sales. All business owners rely on selling in some way. You...
3 Reasons Why Startups Fail — and How to Beat the Odds
Entrepreneurs are notoriously accepting of risk. They have to be, or else they could not take the plunge to start their own business. Unfortunately,...
The Power of Performance Management
You might think that Performance Management is self-explanatory, but it actually isn’t. Many people misinterpret Performance Management! Our...
Perfecting your Processes (is it possible?)
A phrase we hear more and more these days is, “trust the process”. One famous example was with the NBA’s Philadelphia 76’ers whose ‘process’ of...
Building a Balanced Life
The self-help industry is a massive, multibillion-dollar market — and most of it is for entrepreneurs. It makes sense. We entrepreneurs are always...
Stop Sidestepping -How to Run a Successful Side Hustle
The term ‘side hustle’ entered our vocabulary a few years ago and quickly became familiar, even to the elderly. It’s a great testament to this...
How the Right Language Makes You a More Effective Leader
Many of our conversations about leadership revolve around the who and what. Who is making decisions? What are their key ideas? But just as important...
Planning Your Life as a Leader (not just planning for your business)
Being a leader is demanding, no matter what field you are in or the expectations placed on you. The old adage “with great power comes great...
Are You Playing To Win, Or Not To Lose?
An analogy many people make when it comes to being in business or being an entrepreneur is like competing in sports. There are many sports phrases...
The Importance of Aligning Your Thoughts, Language, and Actions
When we think of the instinctive process that our thoughts are verbalized and then acted on, it would seem to be a hardly earth-shattering...
How to Stop Being a Slave to Your Business
The secret to a successful business isn’t your management skills, marketing savvy, or even your amazing ideas. It all comes down to the systems you...
How to answer the question, “What do you Do?”
When it comes to being asked the question, “What do you do?” some of us are armed and ready to fire off a rehearsed answer to the question, some us...
Tips on how to Negotiate through Conflict
Negotiations should be more like reasonable conversations than hostage situations, but any entrepreneur knows that discussions don’t always go...
Are you a Truth Warrior?
Talking about truth in 2021 can make many of us bristle mentally. For something we were always taught was pure and incontrovertible, the concept of...
Say No to Email Overwhelm!
When it comes to our email inboxes, they’ve become less and less a place of satisfaction. Think back years ago when getting an email was fun and...
The 3 Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Communicating
When you’re an entrepreneur, you spend most of your day communicating. Whether it’s talking with your team or trying to convince the masses to buy...
How to Ignite and Invite Feedback as a Leader
Perhaps you’ve already done a lot of work transitioning from “boss” to “leader”: learning to delegate, empowering your team, and so on. But there’s...
The importance of working in your zone of genius
Tell me if this sounds familiar: you had your great idea for a business. You put it into action and it starts to take off. You’re riding that...