by Marc Corsini | Oct 27, 2020
We all know about Charles Lindbergh and his famous solo, nonstop flight from New York City to Paris in his single-engine plane, “Spirit of St. Louis.” A great deal of thought and planning went into the flight, of course, and Winston Groom’s The Aviators: Eddie...
by Marc Corsini | Oct 13, 2020
I am coaching a young executive who is relatively new to leadership. As with many new executives (and some seasoned ones, for that matter), he is struggling with several things—time management, dealing with multiple projects at the same time, prioritization, team...
by Marc Corsini | Sep 22, 2020
Today I’d like to revisit a blog I wrote years ago during my sales-coaching days. It includes two positive stories. Both are about success and perseverance, and one of them is close to home for me. A past issue of Selling Power magazine featured Alfred Fuller, the...
by Marc Corsini | Sep 8, 2020
In sports, when a coach has a losing season, everyone asks what they are going to do to get the team back to winning. Their answer almost always involves renewed focus on the fundamentals. They talk about focusing on conditioning, getting stronger, proper technique...
by Marc Corsini | Aug 25, 2020
In our last blog, we talked about the power and importance of establishing positive routines in our daily lives. Today, we are going to talk more about why it’s so crucial to establish these routines, and it might be something that you haven’t thought about. The thing...
by Marc Corsini | Aug 11, 2020
Today let’s focus on routines. Are they important? Do they matter? What do routines have to do with success? The answers are yes, yes and a lot. Here are a few varied examples: University of Alabama fans are probably well aware of Nick Saban’s meal routine. He has two...
by Marc Corsini | Jul 28, 2020
In the previous blog, I talked about the dangers of discouragement. While avoiding discouragement during a pandemic is hard, we don’t need to make things harder with unfair comparisons between now and our pre-pandemic lives. “Pandemic fatigue” related to all the...
by Marc Corsini | Jul 21, 2020
With everything going on in the world—all the uncertainty, all the economic and social chaos—we’re understandably feeling some discouragement. Managing work and life during a pandemic is hard! Never mind trying to learn a new skill, lose a few pounds, start a new...
by Marc Corsini | Jul 14, 2020
Family businesses remain some of the most important lifelines to our country’s economy. With parts of the economy struggling these days, we were wondering how the family businesses we work with are doing. So, we asked them. We sent a survey to Alabama-based,...
by Marc Corsini | Jul 7, 2020
A client of mine recently told me about an executive with a big, important corporate job in a small, close-knit town. Because of his high-ranking position at the company, he was well-known and well-liked in his business and civic communities, where he served on...
