Martial Arts Management

Stephen Oliver began martial arts training in 1969 in Tulsa, Oklahoma with Bob Olinghouse and Gran Moulder - Black Belts teaching for the Jhoon Rhee Institute based In Washington, DC. He began actively teaching 1974 and founded his first school in 1975.

There are seven secrets, or principles, of sales success. The highest paid salespeople practice them every day. The regular application of these principles is virtually guaranteed to move you to the top of your field. Secret #1: Be serious! Make a decision to go to the top of your field. Make a decision today to ...

Project Forward Five Years Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, the strategic planners who wrote the book, Competing for the Future, encourage decision makers to project forward several years when they strategically plan. The authors encourage executives to imagine that their company is the top company in the industry some years in the future. They then ...

The first three ingredients of success are Peace of Mind, Healthy and Energy and Loving Relationships. The fourth is financial freedom. To be financially free, you must have enough money, so you don’t worry about it continually, as most people do. It is not money that lies at the root of all evil; it is ...

In my previous columns, I explained that the first ingredient of success is peace of mind. Peace of mind is achieved by creating a vision of your perfect future. You begin unlocking your potential by envisioning your life, as if it were exactly how you would want it to be. Then, you work backwards from ...

There needs to be: 1) an expectation of high levels of referrals from every student and parent; 2) a view that this is a process to be managed, not left to happenstance; 3) an understanding that it is every team member’s job to contribute to stimulating referrals, and; 4) a frequent, constant measurement, to hold ...

Some suggestions that you can enact on daily to leverage yourself to turn off wealth inhibition and turn on wealth attraction: Focus on Wealth Rise above popular belief that it is necessary to be affected by the economy. Abundance is a mindset, not an external condition. Focus on what you DO want. Focus on what ...

What a wonderful experience. Behind the scenes through the employee areas, a tour of history and expectations of quality service, and a day of what’s happening at Disney for the highest possible “guest” service. For 60,000 employees it’s “On-Stage” and “In Costume” with the “Boy or Girl Next Door” grooming to make sure every family ...

This article is the nineth in a 12-part series on the specifics for setting success-oriented goals and earning more prosperity for your business. If you’re self-employed or small business owner, then there’s one commonality that we all have – a belief in self-sufficiency. At some point, we decided that we were better off working for ...

Call-Out: “Beginning in 1983 in Denver, I made an effort to emulate IBM’s approach. My ads always touted the benefits of martial arts instruction, explained the benefits of our approach, and never mentioned that anyone else taught this stuff but us.” Years ago, I read a really interesting book called Positioning: the Battle for your ...