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Sales leadership is both strategy and stewardship. It’s knowing the numbers while guiding the humans behind them. As Steve Levitt shared, “You can’t succeed alone without your team. Help them. Carry their concerns upward and bring clarity back down. That’s the job.” Start now. Evaluate, plan, and lead with purpose. The teams that thrive in 2026 will be the ones whose leaders were already preparing today.

When your business is just starting out, you wear every hat. You sell, you market, you manage operations. But real growth comes when you learn how to delegate with confidence, build authority in your niche, and put scalable systems in place.

At the heart of Bruno’s research lies a lesson that goes beyond business: focus on commonalities. CEOs and janitors alike share dreams, fears, and insecurities. When leaders connect human-to-human rather than role-to-role, trust deepens and relationships flourish. As Bruno puts it, generosity is contagious. Treat people with respect and compassion, and they will pay it forward — inside your company and out in the marketplace.

Wendy’s move into entrepreneurship was the result of years of reflection and a desire for more alignment between her work and her values. “I had a long and rewarding career,” she explains, “but I wanted more alignment. I wanted to create something lasting, meaningful, and deeply personal.”

There is a moment in every high performer or leader’s life when relentless effort stops producing better results or stops feeling...

Spirituality in business could mean a minute of breath work before a pitch meeting, an affirmation on a sticky note by your laptop, a weekly journaling session, or a phone-free walk. These habits create focus, strengthen decision-making, and reconnect you to your “why.”

Lisa makes the distinction clear. Expertise means you know your stuff. Authority means others recognize that you know your stuff, and they trust you enough to lead them forward.

Many people think they’ve missed their shot if they don’t hit "success" by 30 or 40. Jeanne Omlor proves them wrong. At 54, she went from...

With Jalil Nawaz, Founder and CEO of Mountainise If your CRM looks like a crime scene, your dashboards are dusty, and your sales team has...

He credits much of this mindset to his background in competitive sports. As a competitive springboard diver and golfer, he learned to prepare, go for it (the dive, the chip), and if the outcome isn't ideal, stay curious, and move on from failure. Every bad shot or missed dive is just a new opportunity to problem-solve creatively and get better over time. Entrepreneurship, he says, is exactly the same.

What happens when you're laid off at your peak? Dee Henry shares the messy, powerful truth about rebuilding your confidence, starting a business from scratch, and doing it anyway. . . even when it’s not perfect.