Over the past few weeks I’ve had several very fruitful conversations with clients and they’ve all centered around this one question, “What did you learn from _____?” Most of them didn’t want to “waste” a whole lot of time on the conversation and one even confessed,...
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Why You Don’t Want Your Accountant Creating Your Strategic Plan
If you want to have the best possible chance of rapidly growing your business this year, then you don’t want to have your accountant leading your strategic planning process. Why? Not because I have anything against accountants. I happen to like them. In fact, my...
read more4 Questions to Enhance Your Strategic Decision-Making
Have you ever decided on an idea that you thought was a good idea at the time and then three, six or 12 months later thought, “What were we thinking?” That often happens to a lot of businesses because, in the middle of working on a strategic plan, very few leaders...
read moreHow to Deal With a 800 Pound Gorilla/Competitor
What do you do when you have a major competitor in your backyard? How do you respond to someone with a regional or national or global brand? Or, what do you do when you’re competing against someone who has more money, more marketing, and more boots on the...
read moreWant to Grow a Bigger, Better, Faster and More Profitable Business?
If you’re leading a business and want to become great at building a business that’s designed for maximum growth, impact and profits, then I’ve got some great news for you! I’ve just launched a new conference for you. It’s entitled, The...
read moreHow to Introduce a Name Change the Right Way
Machiavelli wrote, several hundred years ago, “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” As a business owner, that is...
read moreHow to Prepare Your Business for a Big Sale
If you’ve ever thought about wanting to sell your business, you’re going to want to watch this interview I did for the Wired To Grow Show with Aaron Ghais, a Mergers and Acquisitions Attorney with the law firm of Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy and Ecker...
read moreBeing Unaware Is Not a Valid Excuse
Do you know what your competitors are up to? Do you know what they’re offering? What they’re marketing? What they’re working on? When was the last time you visited their website? Or, if they have a physical location, that you went into their...
read moreIs Your Business Stuck in a Rut?
Are you one of those people who thinks, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?” Have you been doing what you’ve been doing the same way for the past six months? Twelve months? Two years? Five years? Or more? If you have, you’re in a rut....
read moreWhat Assumptions Are Hindering Your Growth?
Assumptions. You have them. I have them. We all have them. Some are helpful (the sun will come out tomorrow :-). Some are irrelevant (I bet Joe will wear his Redskins jersey to work tomorrow). But some are deadly and clear impediments to the growth of your business....
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