One of the questions Tony and I are asked all the time is what makes an ideal candidate for a sales job here at Legion. It’s taken us pretty much the entire eight years we’ve been in business, but I feel like we finally have a firm grasp on what it takes to be a …
On my desk, I have a lot of papers hanging up. Some of them are notes from my daughter, some are schedules for trainee rotations, and a few are inspirational quotes and sayings that help me get through the day. The most important one, though, is the one that says “Hold the Vision, Trust the …
Last week, I voluntarily jumped off a perfectly good raft into freezing cold water, just because I could. And that felt like a pretty apt metaphor for my life. I was on a whitewater rafting trip in the Canadian Rockies, getting ready to face down Class 4 rapids swollen with snow melt. It was about …
I’ve always been an over-achiever. Since birth, the driving force in my life has been to accomplish goals – to crush them, really – and then set new, higher ones to then crush. I’ve always had an insatiable desire to do more, be more, win more, make more. More, more, more. And for most of …
(One of the commitments we made at Legion this year was to discuss our annual strategic plan with the staff on a monthly basis. Every month, we take one section of the strategy we laid out last year and break it down in the weekly staff meetings, followed by a period of feedback and discussion …
There are a lot of awards in the world that focus on top-line revenue. Pretty much every single award Legion has ever won for growth looks solely at top-line sales numbers. And that’s great – the numbers are usually pretty big, and it feels good to say I run a $26 million company, or that …
My husband and I aren’t big on Valentine’s Day. It feels like a chore more than anything – here’s another day when you have to remember to buy a card, get a present, make a big deal, etc. And after putting together 24 Valentine’s gifts for my daughter’s kindergarten class, I’m pretty much loved out. …
When people think of college athletes, they often think “man, that player will have a job lined up just because of being an athlete.” That turns out to not always be the case. Numerous friends who graduated in the past couple of years have truly struggled to find their ideal job, even with their well-known …
Divorced couples in reality television are having a moment. Whether it’s our newly-minted President, who is a reality TV star and is twice-divorced, or Tarek and Christina El Moussa from HGTV’s Flip or Flop, who are going through a very public divorce, thanks to their position as reality TV stars. (And I could write a …