Change
March 22, 2021
Entrepreneurs must always be prepared to face the cycle of building and rebuilding. In 2008, while I was researching a book, my wife and I travelled around North America in a small RV. In many small Southern towns, it was pretty clear that businesses...
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March 12, 2021
In business, if we are not moving forward, we are going backward: there is no status quo. Change is constant, and only when it is undertaken intentionally and correctly, will it help to secure a better future for the organization and its people.
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March 8, 2021
Regretfully in 2020, words we had rarely used before, “Coronavirus” and “Pandemic” came into common usage. And during that dark period another more common word, “leadership,” filtered into our daily conversation and gained as much, if n...
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March 1, 2021
Team building is a process, not an event. Throwing axes together is fun but building an effective team takes time, effort and venturing into not-so-fun spaces together. The “unfun” is where the team is really built. Teams and individuals need lea...
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December 22, 2020
If you’ve owned your business for a long time you’ve worked hard. You’re still working hard, possibly harder than any of your employees. At some point, you have to ask yourself, why?
For some business owners it’s financial: unexpected fina...
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December 7, 2020
These are trying times. It seems there are more obstacles than ever between you and a prospective customer. So, how do you motivate yourself to do what’s necessary to succeed in spite of the obstacles?
In his book Flow – the Psychology of Opti...
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November 9, 2020
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
These opening lines from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens could easily describe our current situation. On one hand, the ec...
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October 26, 2020
Lessons learned in the business setting can have relevance to our personal lives. Recently, a client reflected on the most important lessons learned during a leadership development program. It turned out that asking questions and listening to under...
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September 21, 2020
If you sell your business to an outside buyer the new owner may want to retain you for a year or two as an advisor/consultant. This arrangement can help ensure a smooth transition and provide time to transfer your business wisdom and knowledge to the...
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September 8, 2020
I remember being a new salesperson many years ago, ready to charge headlong and non-stop toward my undefined image of success. As I became more experienced, I realized that I was trying to run a marathon at the pace of a short distance sprinter; I ca...
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