Leadership
March 10, 2016
Empower Any Employee With 3 Questions
You can’t do it all by yourself. I don’t care how brilliant you are, at some point, if you want to scale up your business, you’re going to have to...
February 9, 2016
Ripple Innovation In 4 Steps
When businesses get stale and lose their creativity and ability to innovate they do one of two things. They order in doughnuts or bagels and lots of coffee and call...
February 5, 2016
The Best Wins, The Better Goes Unnoticed
The faster runners are unknown, but the fastest is - Usain Bolt. Stronger financial returns are nice, but the strongest financial returns are what everyone wants. There out countless companies...
January 28, 2016
The Adored Entrepreneur: 9 Traits To Acknowledge
We all know the type – the business owner for whom any employee would bend over backwards. The shop owner whose staff treats every single customer as if they’re the...
January 27, 2016
Now Was Two Words Ago
Now was two words ago. Now has actually become four words back now. There it is again. Now passes so quickly. Don’t wait. Catch it now. (If you don’t, now...
January 14, 2016
Reward The Effort, Not The Outcome
When my son came home with straight A's, I congratulated him on the success. That was a mistake, because what gets rewarded get's focused on. While at first blush, getting...
November 27, 2015
4 Reasons Why You Should Never Force Holiday Work For Employees
My jaw dropped, and not because there was more turkey and pie. I was watching football with my family after enjoying a delicious turkey dinner, and the news came on...
November 26, 2015
Change Someone Else In These 6 Ways
You know those movies where the guy says, “I could tell ya, but if I told ya, I’d have to kill ya.”? My second company, the one that did computer...
October 30, 2015
How To Run Job Ads That Get Great Employees
For years I ran ads for different positions, and would always get hundreds of resumes in response. The problem was 95% of those respondents were generic responses. They were people...
October 15, 2015
How to Have a Great Place to Work
Do you have a great place for people to work? If you hesitate about answering that question, it may be time to give it some thought. Having a high turnover...