Posts by Jerome Wade

No matter who you are, maintaining a good work-life balance is the key to being successful. Whether you work in sales or are a Fortune 500 CEO, it’s difficult to do good work if you do not have a good balance. Maintaining a good life balance helps you to relieve stress and focus on what…

In this day and age business leaders and employees alike are struggling more than ever with fatigue – trying to gain and sustain results, driving revenue, meeting client needs, meeting employee needs, and endlessly more. Over the last two years we have collectively been experiencing challenges and changes with the onset of a pandemic, lockdowns,…

Phil was 54 years old when his world began to unravel. He was a very successful sales manager and was loved by the people he led and worked with. On the surface, Phil had it all together, but internally he was a mess. The company he worked for brought me in to speak to their…

Winning is fun! Losing, well, not so much. I played soccer at Caprock High School in Amarillo, TX in the mid-eighties. I hate to say this but our soccer team was not a winning team, in fact, we were more like The Bad News Bears of soccer. I have to admit that our three-year losing…

An excerpt from the book by Jerome Wade, UNLEASHED: Dominate Your Limitations, Break Through Your Barriers, Live An Extraordinary Life It isn’t until you’re walking down the main corridor of the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Florence, Italy that you understand the magnitude of what stands before you. At the end of the hall you see him,…

Adapted from the book UNLEASHED: Dominate Your Limitations, Break Through Your Barriers, Live An Extraordinary Life available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle. It’s a crisp January 1st morning; the temperature is somewhere in the neighborhood of four degrees (Fahrenheit). Just outside the window, I am looking at the snow-covered peaks that hover above Pagosa…

So, your employees are losing steam and they’re not producing the way they used to, what do you do? You could organize a team building activity, take them out to a nice lunch because maybe that’ll get them jump started or you could let them go. It’s your choice, you’re the boss. However, let’s take…

It was an embarrassing place to be, worn out by the demands of leading. Trying to muster an ounce of energy to tackle the next challenge, win the next battle, overcome the next struggle, but there was nothing to draw from. I was leading on empty. The thrill of leading and the adrenaline of winning…

It’s the best of times and the worst of times for executive leaders. You know what I’m referring to, when in your pursuit of success while you are driving hard, you wake up to the reality that you have driven yourself into the ground. Those of us in executive leadership positions are notoriously gifted at…