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Purple Cow by Seth Godin
This book will inspire and inform you…and hopefully encourage you to grow your business in new and exciting ways! One of my hands-down favorite author,…
Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, by Verne Harnish
I want to introduce you to another 2002 book, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish. Despite the age of the book, it’s a business…
Become a Highly Successful Entrepreneur
You know it is important to keep looking for new ideas and better practices…we all do. The hard part is making time to do it….
I’ve Got a Professional Crush on Yoda
Do or do not, there is no try. – Yoda Yoda as business leadership inspiration? Yes. I love Yoda. All that courage, wisdom, will, and…
Screw Business As Usual
I want to introduce you to a 2011 book, Screw Business As Usual by Richard Branson, the entrepreneur behind Virgin Atlantic Records, Virgin Airlines, etc….
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So what exactly is an Entrepreneur
I have been wondering for years now, what exactly is an entrepreneur. On one side, you have those that give you that label simply because…
Winter is Here!
Winter is here! The leaves have gone, the weather has turned, and the December holidays are right around the corner. The business season has changed,…
Can you Vacation?
One of the greatest joys of owning your own business and working for yourself is the freedom to schedule work around your family, spouse, and…
Empowering Your Team
“Empowering employees so that they can make good decisions is one of an entrepreneur’s most important tasks.” – from Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won’t…
Systems and Processes Aren’t Just Big Business Tools
I recently came across an article on Entrepreneur.com that caught my eye. You have Good Ideas–Don’t Let Them Disappear by Matt Mayberry made a point…
If you’re making money but everything still feels heavy, reactive, and scattered, you’re not doing anything wrong. You’re experiencing a normal – but dangerous – growth gap. Revenue Does Not Equal Stability Many business owners assume chaos means failure. In reality, chaos often appears after traction—when demand grows faster than…
This year marks 25 years in business. A quarter century of building, breaking, fixing, and starting over. I keep waiting to feel like I have it all figured out. I don’t. What I have instead is a long list of things I’ve learned, most of them the hard way. So…
Knowing you should be more proactive is not the same as kEvery business owner I talk to knows they should be more proactive. They say it themselves, usually right after describing a fire they just finished putting out. ‘I need to stop being so reactive.’ Yes. You do. But that…
When every decision runs through one person, growth has a ceiling. I say this with genuine respect, because I have been there myself: the most common bottleneck in a growing service business is the owner. Not the market. Not the team. Not the economy or the competition or the clients….
Most service business owners have thought about their personal estate. Almost none have thought about what happens to their business. Nobody likes this conversation. I get it. Thinking about what happens if you are suddenly unable to run your business, whether for a week, a month, or permanently, requires sitting…
The difference between being productive and just occupied. I used to wear busy like a trophy. If someone asked how things were going, ‘busy’ was practically a reflex. It signaled momentum. It meant the business was alive, that people needed me, that I was doing something. It felt like proof….
Why the CEO-COO relationship determines whether growth sticks or falls apart. Most growing businesses hit a wall. Revenue is climbing. The team is expanding. Opportunities are coming in faster than anyone can process them. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, things start breaking. Deadlines slip. Decisions get…
If you have been following me you know I have been doing a lot of inner, personal work lately. At the moment, I am focusing on creating my best life and what that looks like exactly. “Create your best life” sounds inspiring… until you actually try to define what that…
“Its ok to be comfortable if that is what you want…its not ok to be small.” That is the premise behind a recent episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast (Episode 1880). She goes on to say that “you playing small is the single biggest reason why you are not happy.”…
I have spent the past four months complaining about the weather. Anyone who lives in Michigan knows winter can be unpredictable, but the past few years lulled us into a false sense of security. Winters had been relatively mild. Snow would come and go. The cold didn’t seem quite so…