Before you run away from this idea (i.e. if you’re thinking, “I already have way too many meetings in my life!”), just hang with me for a moment. As I wrote a few years ago, some of the most successful companies in the world use daily meetings (companies like Goldman...
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How to Get Big Projects Moving Forward
When you have a big project staring you in the face, what do you do? Or what do your people do? When you see a project like one of the following … Create a new revenue stream Open a new location Create and launch a new product Design a new employee performance review...
read more3 Keys to Making Your Goals and Plans Come True This Year
How often do you create goals and plans that never come to fruition? If you’re like most owners, entrepreneurs and service professionals the answer is … “More often that I care to admit.” So what makes you think this year will be different? By now, you’ve already...
read moreThe Missing Ingredient to Most Business Growth and Change Efforts
Even though I’m absolutely passionate about creating growth plans, I have to admit that most business plans—regardless of whether we’re talking about strategic plans, growth plans, marketing plans, business plans or any other kind of plan—simply don’t produce the...
read moreDo You Have an Annoyance List?
No matter what your business is, you have both internal and external issues that annoy either you, your people, or your customers. The problem, of course, is that very few businesses (or organizations) do anything about them—and that is a very big problem. Case in...
read moreWant to Increase Your Organization’s Speed?
If you could speed up the pace at which your people implement and execute your ideas and plans, what would that be worth to you? For years, I’ve looked for catalytic mechanisms to do just that and have found few. One of the few ideas I had heard about was the idea of...
read moreThe #1 Secret to Staying on Top of Your Business
If someone were to ask you, “What’s the number one thing you’d recommend doing to manage or stay on top of a business?” what would you say? It’s not an easy question, is it? There are lots of possible answers. For example, you could say, “Hire great people in the...
read moreWhat’s Holding You and Your Company Back?
Are you familiar with the Theory of Constraints (TOC)? If you’re not, the theory (an overall management philosophy) came into vogue post the publication of a book entitled, “The Goal,” by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. In its most basic form the theory contends that any...
read moreWhy Does Your Team’s Execution Fail?
I just finished leading a management training session for one of my clients on, “Execution: The Art and Science of Transforming Intention into Reality.” And the one section that probably had the most discussion for us as a group was my first point on realizing why...
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