When I came into the business years ago, the people I trained under had two ways of communicating with me that I was doing a […]
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5 Steps To Getting Real Buy-In At Your Company
Is there any owner who hasn’t read a book or heard a lecture that didn’t advocate the need to get buy-in from your employees? Bet […]
If You Moved Across The Street And Started Over
What I tell clients of mine to do periodically is to envision that they closed the doors at their existing company and decided to reopen […]
The Not So Sweet Spot
Frequently during my consulting work one to one with clients and during the free 30 minute consulting calls I offer, I get asked the following […]
Act Like You’re Going To Be In Business For Awhile
Years ago when I was still working in my family business, we would hit a rough patch periodically. Sometimes it was just a tough season […]
Are You Working on the Right Things Right Now?
If you’re like most contractors you probably spend the majority of your day putting out the fires that your company set yesterday and the first […]
What’s the Value of Remembering the Past?
Not much! That is unless you’ve learned something from it. The key to remembering the past is not to keep carrying over lessons of just […]
A Business or a Hobby
“Is it a Business or a Hobby?” That’s the question I ask contractors that I speak to at workshops, in webinars that I run or […]
Can’t drive it, wear it or show it off to my friends
I grew up in a family business. And the lines between family time and work time were very blurred at best. Talk around the dinner […]
End Game: What’s Yours?
In a recent free 30 minute consulting call, I was speaking with a contractor who is going to be 60 years old and he now […]