Without a commitment to personal learning and growth, you may profit in the short term but you'll never achieve long-term success.

If you are truly an expert at what you do, then you won't need to market or pitch yourself or buy these dubious programs — you'll have more than enough word-of-mouth referrals to keep you busy.

Your dedication to personal growth reflects directly on your business success, growth and sustainability.

I want business leaders to learn from the bees — to understand at their core that their business exists to serve their ‘colony', the public, and the ecosystem in which they exist. My

‘Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase'.

A dedication to continuous learning that is more informal than formal can mean the difference between failure and success.

Carl Honoré, in his book In Praise of Slow, sums it up beautifully: Fast and slow do more than just describe a rate of change. They are shorthand for ways of being, or philosophies of life. Fast is busy, controlling, aggressive, hurried, analytical, stressed, superficial, impatient, active, quantity-over-quality. Slow is the opposite: calm,

You can never spend too much time on truly understanding who you want to serve and how your product best serves them (this includes every part of the delivery and service experience).

In reality, external market forces (mostly financial), politics and competitor pressure are far greater influencers of marketing than any customer will ever be.