How to Make the Fun Stage Last for Your Business
For many business owners, Fun is as far as they would like to go. They earn more than ever have before, and they have the freedom to do what they love. Why would you want to give that up?
The Ultimate Guide to Holding an Incredible Executive Offsite – Day One
From day one, this step-by-step agenda will give you and your team an opportunity to reflect on past successes and challenges and cast a vision for the company so powerful and enduring that it will outlast everyone in the room.
The Ultimate Guide to Holding an Incredible Executive Offsite – Before the Meeting
Over the last ten years, I've learned more ways not to hold an executive offsite meeting than I'd like to admit. In this series, I've taken the lessons I've learned from each of those failures and put together the perfect offsite plan so you and your team can create the perfect strategy to grow your organization!
Is Your Magic Eight Ball Messing Up Your Decisions?
Great leaders distinguish themselves from bad or even just good leaders by their ability to make the right decisions at the right time. There is a mystique that surrounds a great leader's ability to make great decisions, and I see it all the time in founders.
Five Ways to Truly Empower Your People
Great leaders empower their people. Good leaders think they empower their people. The gap between the two is much greater than you think. In this article, I’ll give you 5 ways to bridge that gap!
Five Ways to Align Every Person and Every Action
Does everyone in your company understand your common goals? Does everyone in your company agree with those goals? Does everyone in your company work effectively and efficiently toward achieving those goals? If not, you might be surprised how much it is costing you every day.
Five Ways to Overcome Toxic Departmental Silos
I'm going to share with you the five ways I learned to overcome the departmental silos that develop in virtually every single growing business. Each of these five strategies will help you build the cross-functionality that will allow the organization to work across functions and between silos, at all levels, in an organic, natural manner.
Should You Pivot or Innovate?
Should you be pivoting your business right now? How do you know when to pivot, and how do you know what to pivot to? Should you jump to a new industry to make ends meet or even make the switch altogether? The COVID-19 pandemic has got business owners and leadership teams scrambling to answer these questions.
Reinventing Your Big Rut Organization Post COVID-19
What is it like to be in Big Rut? Well, the business looks great on the outside. It looks even better from where management sits in their beautiful corporate offices. However, the employees will tell you the truth in their words, their actions, or both that the organization died on the inside long ago.
ReIgnite Your Treadmill Organization Post COVID-19
A company's fate is decided in Treadmill. In this article, I'll show you what happens to this decision in the wake of (or middle of) the COVID pandemic, and what strategies you can implement to use the crisis productively to turn things around and pull the business back into Predictable Success.
Reinforcing Your Predictable Success Organization Post COVID-19
In the middle of all the economic hardship and social upheaval we are experiencing right now, there is an opportunity for some businesses to grow faster than ever. This is a strategy that companies in Predictable Success can use today to create years of growth and come out of the crisis, not only surviving but thriving and better off because of it.
Regrouping Your Whitewater Organization Post COVID-19
If your business was in Whitewater in March, the last five months have likely been brutal. Stuck between Fun and Predictable Success, you didn't have the agility or the depth to weather the economic uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. But there is hope! Here are the three phases of what I believe is the best strategy for you to regroup and get your business back into winning form.