The good news is you want to scale your business. The bad news is that a lot of businesses have tried to scale and haven’t succeeded. In fact, some have gone out of business exactly because they tried to scale. So how can you avoid that? What are the major breakdowns...
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How 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 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 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 Avoid Being a Victim of Reverse Delegation
How many times has this happened to you? One of your employees comes to you with a problem, you talk about it for a few minutes and then say, “I’ll tell you what. Let me do some thinking about this and I’ll get back to you.” Can I get an Amen? It happens to all of us....
read moreWhy You Need to Invite Critique Into Your Life
The simple answer is, “Blind spots.” We all have them. In the technical literature of psychology they’re referred to as “Scotomas.” A scotoma occurs when an individual can’t see something in themselves that those around them can. For example, you may perceive yourself...
read more5 Hiring Mistakes You Absolutely Want to Avoid
The good news is that you want to leverage the time, talents, treasures, intellectual property, networks, etc. of other people to help grow your business. The bad news is that very few of us have a 100% success rate at hiring. In fact, most of the business owners and...
read moreWhy You Can’t Just Be a Leader
The primary hindrance to the growth of any business is always the senior leader of that business (you can read my post on “Are You the Bottleneck?” for more on that point) because no business (or organization) can consistently perform at a level beyond the capacity of...
read moreEliminate Curse Words From Your Vocabulary
I realize this is an unusual post on a business growth website, but if you’ll hang with me for a moment, I think you’ll understand. Last week, the Wall Street Journal ran an article on cursing and how it can, when used in the right place and time, be...
read moreThe Ultimate Test for Seeing if You’re Communicating Enough as a Leader
If I were to ask you, “How do you know if you’re communicating enough?” And, ‘What proof do you have of your answer?” How would you respond? Would you go by your own intuition? Or would you offer some kind of proof? Now, before you...
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