The Ultimate Guide to Holding an Incredible Executive Offsite – After
Today, I'm going to show you the right way to jump-start the transformation you want as you execute and implement your offsite decisions and rally the company around your cause.
6 Traps That Cause New Businesses to Fail
There are six common traps that founders and entrepreneurs unknowingly fall prey to during the early days of their new business. The first step to avoiding them is knowing that they exist.
Keeping Your Business in Top Form for the Long Haul
As humans, we grow up, reach our prime, and then walk the road of wisdom as a simple function of time. In other words, we grow old. However, businesses don't face the same sort of mandatory aging. Instead, your business can, in theory, stay in top form for as long as you'd like. Here's how you and your business can defy the laws of gravity for as long as you (and even your successors) would like!
Do You Want to Struggle for Growth, Slow Your Growth, or Scale Your Growth?
How fast do you want to grow your business? As your business progresses through each stage of growth, you will need to strategically decide whether you are willing to make the changes necessary to keep growing.
Five Ways to Take Your Leadership Team to the Next Level
If you are a Founder or CEO of a $1M+ business, you've probably come to recognize how important your senior leadership team is to your success. You can't do it on your own. You can't make all the decisions or manage all the people. You need strong leaders who can share the load.
Do You Need to Hire a Professional CEO?
Do you think most founders would benefit from handing over the reins to a professional CEO? I’ll show you how the plans succeed and fail and what you can do about it.
Where Does Business Growth Come From, Incremental Gains or Quantum Leaps?
Where does growth come from, incremental gains, or quantum leaps? There are so many articles written on this question, and they come to virtually every single conclusion. I'd like to take a moment to try to explain why the answer is "YES" and what that means for your business.
Is Your Org Chart a Joke? It May Be Costing You Dearly.
If your business growth was once booming but has since slowed, where do you think you should look first? Pricing? Nope. Costs? Nope. Marketing content? Nope. You may have problems in all three of these areas and probably have a lot of problems in other areas too.
4 Remarkably Simple Steps to Achieve Your Long Term Goals
Though spikes and disruptions will hit and the future is far from clear, many businesses would benefit from taking a step back to reassess not only their long-term goals but also the process by which we establish those goals. This is one of those areas that, if was as leaders are not intentional, we could end up suffering from a side-effect of COVID-19 for a very long time: a heightened emphasis on urgency.
5 Ways to Eliminate Employee Apathy in Your Business
A common but wholly bewildering problem founders face is apathy among their employees. As a successful founder, I'd be willing to bet you are wired to drive forward. You probably don't have an off button (at least while you're awake). Employees can be a whole different story.
Are You Still Playing Jenga With Your Business?
When I start working with a founder and their team, one of the first issues we have to address is a big one: How they approach growth. Typically, up until this point, they have grown by selling as much as they can and then scrambling to keep up. But this strategy is about to expire.
The Founder’s Evolution Stage 7: The Visionary Founder
The Founder's Evolution culminates in Stage 7: The Visionary Founder. At this stage, the Visionary Founder's legacy is truly established. But at the end of the day, it's not about how skilled you are, how amazing your organization is, or how much you are worth. Instead, it's about something far more meaningful, something far more powerful.