Use these three rules to determine what is most important to you professionally and personally. Decide how you want to live. Life and business opportunities are just too exciting to miss.

The biggest culprit of lost productivity is uncertainty. People simply need to know where the organization is going and how it's going to get there. When you answer these two questions and, more importantly, when you communicate your objectives continuously throughout the organization, you will witness employees overcome what once seemed to be insurmountable obstacles.

Some of the most successful hires have been the result of administering specific assessments and multiple interviews. Candidates should expect to meet several members of the team in different environments.

Thinking critically about risk and developing a comprehensive plan is one of the most important things an executive can do for their company, but many companies treat the creation of a risk management plan as a check-the-box exercise. Worse, many companies develop a plan and don't execute it.

Only about 5% of business people have written goals and a plan for achieving them, even though the most successful business people are conscious, intentional goal-setters! Learn why goals are so important and how you can benefit from making them a habit in your business.

When employees are not motivated, not trained well, exhausted, or not empowered to think as if they were owners, the result is wasted profit, revenue, opportunities, and lost competitive advantage.

There are no compelling consequences of not achieving a resolution, but there are frequently compelling consequences of not achieving a goal.