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John received Honorable Mention as a Small Business Influencer for 2011. Small Business Influencer honors people, companies, and organizations who have made a significant impact on the North American small business market. Read more »


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A Note From John:

John Spence

I appreciate you taking a moment to stop by. In these articles you will find some of my latest thinking on emerging trends in a wide array of business topics. As you look though these short articles and rants I believe you will find some extremely good ideas from some very successful organizations and incredibly talented people. I encourage you to add your comments and questions, and if there is something you are interested in that isn’t here, please send me an e-mail and I will do my best to study it and post what I find. I hope you enjoy the blog and look forward to your feedback.
Thanks so much, John

PS -- if you really like one of the articles please send a link on to anyone you feel would find value in reading it. The more folks that have access to these ideas the better!



The 12 in 2012 Challenge!!!!!

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

 

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Here are just a few VERY good books that I recommend — PLEASE feel free to add you suggestions!!!

 


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Three Amazing Resources

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

I am VERY thankful for…

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

I am extremely thankful this week because a group of college students have restored my faith in the leadership potential of the next generation. This semester, in partnership with a great company in my hometown called TutoringZone, we offered a special leadership training program called “Let The GATOR Lead” in conjunction with the Warrington College of Business Administration at the University of Florida. Every other week or so, a group of students would get together with a student facilitator and go through a chapter in my book: “Excellence by Design: Leadership – the six key characteristics of outstanding leaders,” and talk about the principles I put forth and what those leadership characteristics meant to them as college students.

Out of the 250+ students that originally signed up – more than 130 wrote essays that were judged by me and several senior executives from Fortune 100 companies in order to choose three winners that received cash scholarships as well as donations to their favorite charity and a small reward for the rest of the people in their discussion group.

All-in-all the essays added up to about 500 pages of reading, and I must say it rivaled the best leadership books I have read in the last few years. The essays were thoughtful, focused, provocative and entertaining – I could not be more thankful for all the wonderful ideas and feedback these amazing students gave to me about how they view leadership and the way they want to lead their generation. Below you will find the top three winners and two honorable mention recipients, I think there’s some wonderful stuff here that you will enjoy great deal – and I have to say that it is a shame I cannot put all the essays here on my blog – the students did an incredible job and I’m very, very thankful for what they taught me!  Continue reading “I am VERY thankful for…” »

Personal Kaizen

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

I hope you enjoy this video, I think it has some extremely important ideas about what every person needs to do to create job security/career security in the face of even the most challenging economic times. If you find value in the ideas I share, please send a link on to your friends and colleagues so that as many people as possible can hear these suggestions. Thanks so much, I look forward to your feedback and comments – John

 

GREAT Sales Book and FREE Tele-Seminar

Monday, October 31st, 2011

 

 

 

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Please be sure to join me tomorrow, November 1 —  at 1 PM Eastern Standard Time (10 AM PST) – for a very special teleseminar that I will be delivering entitled: The Master Keys of Career Success. Although this particular teleseminar series is aimed at professional women and female entrepreneurs, I absolutely assure you that every idea I present will be valuable regardless of gender! If you would truly like to understand how to increase your career success, how to be seen as an expert in your field, how to position yourself for a major leap forward… I’m going to hit on all of the very best ideas I’ve collected over the years on how to create a more successful, happy, balanced and joyful career and life. I absolutely guarantee it will be a good use of your time – I’m going to present some extremely valuable ideas, tools and concepts. Please be sure to click on the link below to sign up for this event – and it would be wonderful if you would send the link around to all of your friends and colleagues – I would love to get as many people as possible on this call – it is 100 percent FREE – and I am positive you will take pages of notes.

Click on this box to sign up right now… 
 

How To Be a Successful Entrepreneur

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

During this week alone I will meet with eight different entrepreneurs who are all looking to start businesses. Some are building mobile apps, some are starting publications, some are going into manufacturing, and one is creating a TV show. Yet even though they’re all over the place with what they are focusing on as a business, my advice about how to be successful as an entrepreneur was just about the same to all of them. Here are some of the key ideas I shared with them for what I feel it takes to successfully create and grow an entrepreneurial business. Continue reading “How To Be a Successful Entrepreneur” »

Two Ideas About Employee Engagement

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

The REAL Secrets to Success – for FREE!!!

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

In just the past week I have received more than a dozen emails from people who promise to teach me the “Secret To Success“… for ONLY $499  I Googled one of the people who sent me such a note and could not find him anywhere on the internet? No career history, no connection to any company, no awards, no charity work – as far as I could tell he has never accomplished anything.  Yet I still have a spam folder full of people who can make me “mega-rich working just four hours a week!” 

The “Secret to Success” is NOT for sale — it is free to anyone who wants to learn it – and these bogus emails upset me so much that I decided to put together this video to outline the very best ideas I have ever learned (so far) about what it TRULY takes to build an incredibly successful life. Whether you are a high school or college student, work in an office or factory, run or own a company – no matter how much education you have… I honestly believe that the ideas I share in this video (for FREE) can make a dramatic positive impact on your life and the lives of those you love… IF… you take these amazingly powerful ideas and apply them in your life every day. Continue reading “The REAL Secrets to Success – for FREE!!!” »

How to Turn Stress… Into Success!

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

There is a lot of fear and uncertainty in the world right now. Turn on the TV, listen to the radio, look at the news on the Internet – it can be overwhelming, scary, and downright frightening. As a result, it seems to me that an awful lot of people today are living with a high level of stress and anxiety because they are truly uncertain about how their future might unfold. So in this blog I’d like to give you some advice for how to handle the current situation in a bit more proactive and focused manner. Continue reading “How to Turn Stress… Into Success!” »

One Of The “Master Keys” To Success

Monday, August 1st, 2011

“You become what you focus on… and similar to the people you surround yourself with.” This is the single most important lesson I’ve learned in my life so far. How did I learn it? By understanding the power of: Mastermind Groups.

Nearly 28 years ago – I failed out of college. After my first year at the University of Miami, in Miami Florida, I had a stellar 1.6 GPA!! Unfortunately, all of the people I was hanging out with had lower GPA’s, so it did not seem like that big of a deal… until I was expelled. I then moved to Gainesville Florida to restart my college career and met an incredibly wise professor (Roger Strickland) who strongly recommended that I start a “study group” – a.k.a. — a mastermind group. So I stood up at the front of the class and invited anyone that wanted to join me in creating a study group – but the catch was that you had to have a 3.6 GPA or higher to be in the group! Forming that study group changed EVERYTHING. My college career completely turned around because now I was surrounded by bright, sharp, talented students who were focused on getting good grades, staying healthy, having fun and preparing themselves for their dream lives and dream careers. How well did it work? I graduated in the top three students in the United States in my major from the University of Florida (Go Gators!). Continue reading “One Of The “Master Keys” To Success” »