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...
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5 Things Great Bosses Do Every Day
When you start your day, how do you think you should go about doing your job as “the boss”? If you’re like most business owners and/or entrepreneurs, chances are you don’t have a rubric or framework for your day, you just go at it. When you have 639 items on...
read moreTo Be Great You Have to Be Good
There’s a lie that a lot of business experts are espousing these days that’s detrimental to you, as a leader, and to the health and growth of your business. It comes in one of two forms. “To be great, you have to be bad” … or “No...
read moreAre You Dreaming Big Enough?
As you look at your plan for this year, how big is your dream? Does it excite you? Scare you? Or totally underwhelm you? If you’re like most business owners and entrepreneurs chances are your plans are closer to the underwhelm side than the excite side. Note: while...
read moreNever Empower or Try to Appease Negative People
When you have a negative person on one of your teams—they could be an employee or a board member or a manager—how do you deal with them? If you’re like a lot of leaders, chances are you use one or more of the following strategies Endure their negativity because you...
read moreThree Keys to Creating a Great Company Culture
Whether you like it or not, your company/business/organization/firm has a culture. Every business does. The only question is, “Do you like the one you have?” If you’re like most business owners and/or entrepreneurs, chances are the answer is, “Not completely.” So why...
read moreThe One Area Where the 80/20 Principle Doesn’t Work (And It’s Hurting Your Business)
In my last post I talked about the power of the 80/20 principle, along with a new twist on it, the power of focusing on the 20% of the 20% (i.e. getting super focused on the very few activities that have the greatest potential to make a significant impact on your...
read moreThe Problem of One-Offs (And Why They’re Hurting You and Your Company)
If you’re like most entrepreneurial leaders, freedom is one of your core values. It’s part of the reason why you created your own business. You don’t want someone else calling the shots and telling you what to do. You want to be in control. You want freedom. I...
read moreHow to Recover and Make The Second Half of Your Year Great
We’re now halfway through the year. So, how are you doing? Is your business on plan (or above) for the year? If you’re like most of the business leaders I know, you’re probably a little behind where you thought you’d be (or maybe a lot behind). You started the year...
read moreHow to Ensure That Every Meeting You Lead Matters
Ever leave a meeting wondering, “Did we actually accomplish anything?” Or, saying to yourself, “Was that a waste of time?.” Or maybe even positing, “There has to be a better way!” Chances are, if you’re leading a team of people, you have since meetings are a way of...
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