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Today, let’s tackle the second word, Pressure. It’s immediately paradoxical that these two words are used together: Gentle. Pressure. But any change e...

I wrote a book.

Two actually. On May 16^th my second book, Leading Change: How to Achieve Superior Results with Gentle Pressure Relentlessly Applied w...

At its core, the book is about the phrase: “Gentle Pressure Relentlessly Applied”. In my world, it’s more than a mantra—it’s a process. The first time...

In the late nineties, during my time leading at Bachrach men’s clothing, we had a focus on high-quality hiring. We worked with Jerry Bell of the Bell ...

The fifth, and most obvious attribute of an achiever is the Entrepreneur. While it may be obvious that an achiever has entrepreneurial characteristics...

For those of you who have been following along, you know that we are spending six weeks describing the attributes of an Achiever. An Achiever (someone...

“Fall down seven times, get up eight”.

This is the mantra of the Survivor. A survivor is another of the six attributes of an Achiever—and an importan...

The second component of an Achiever is the Producer. We say the Producer “gets today’s work done today.” They love goals and metrics with a focus on a...

Let’s talk about the first component of an Achiever: The Creator. It may seem grandiose to refer to someone as “The Creator”, but let me put this into...

 Here’s what we have decided: People with the Achievement mindset want to learn. They want to improve and they’re always looking for opportunities to ...

In our work we usually engage with entrepreneurs and leaders who are striving to get more out of their teams. Their frustration usually focuses on the...

Running a business isn’t easy. At the Mann Group, we’re always pretty quick to acknowledge just how lucky we are that we get to do something we love e...