If you’ve grown your company past the first few employees, chances are you’ve wrestled with culture issues. When it was just you and a handful of employees, your culture was you and you controlled it. However, as you’ve added employees, with fewer...
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How to Hire Fast While Scaling
When you’re engaged in scaling your business, you quickly discover that you have to increase the capacity of your business to be able to handle the demand of more customers/clients/members/patients (or whatever nomenclature you use). And while there are several...
read more6 Keys to Building a Better Company Culture
Do you ever get frustrated that some of the people in your business are choosing to do something in a way that you wouldn’t? Or do you ever watch someone doing something and think, “Why would that ever choose to _____ that way?” Or, as you’ve added employees,...
read moreHow to Finish This Year (Or Any Year) Well
As you hit these last few weeks of the year, how’s your head doing? Are you full engaged and ready to finish well? Or are you starting to slow down and ready to coast into next year? Are you on track with your goals? Slightly behind? Or way behind? Are you thinking...
read moreHow to Eliminate Most Conflict Before It Begins
Few things hinder day-to-day progress more than conflict. Any time you put two or more people together, conflict is rarely far away. Sometimes that conflict is with business partners. Sometimes it’s with employees. Sometimes it’s with customers. And...
read more5 Tactics for Eliminating Distractions So You Can Focus On Growing Your Business
How often do you catch yourself thinking, “I just don’t have enough time to work on my business!”? Or how often do you say to yourself, “I could get a whole lot more work done if people would just stop interrupting me all day long!”? Probably more times that you care...
read more4 Keys to Making Better Decisions Every Day
Since you make hundreds of decisions every day, chances are few things seem more obvious and innate than decision-making. Think about it. Over the past several decades, you’ve probably made hundreds of thousands of decisions about virtually everything. You should be a...
read more4 Keys to Building a Great Management Team That Actually Produces Results
Have you ever dreamed of taking a two-week vacation (or being able to attend a conference) without having to check in on your business at all? Or have you ever longed for the day when you didn’t feel like the whole weight of your business was only on your shoulders...
read moreIn Hiring to Scale, Culture Always Trumps Competency
When you look back on all the people you’ve hired, who have been some of your biggest problem people? Or, when you look back at any of the organizations you’ve worked for or been a part of, who have been some of the biggest pains? My guess is that in virtually every...
read moreHow to Beat the Summer Blues/Slow Down
Do you ever get frustrated that every summer your people seem to hit the slow gear when summer arrives? Does it bother you that their drive, their energy, their excitement, their speed level drops off for two months between mid-June and mid-August year after year?...
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