Planning & Strategy

My newest book, Profit First, shares a money management system that leverages human behavior. Traditional accounting is logic based. It makes sense, logically. But us humans aren’t logical beasts, we...

Of course you have high expectations of your best employee, but you treat them accordingly, don't you? You would never cut the pay of your best employee, would you? I...

Tax season always seemed a little bit like Christmas morning to me. Not! I hated the tax season surprises. Additional taxes due. Surprise. No refund. Surprise. And the worst of...

I am far from an engineer, but I do know a little bit about flywheels (call it a fetish).  Those heavy wheels are hard as hell to turn, at first,...

No matter what the gurus say, entrepreneurship is not for everyone. Being an entrepreneur is not “so easy anyone can do it” nor is it a ticket to “get rich...

Want to do everything? You can’t! What? Were you expecting a quick primer that would affirm your belief that you can do it all, AND teach you how to stay...

Every business, be it a service provider or a manufacturer, or a restaurant or insurance company, goes through a chain of activities to deliver its offering. To be in the...

If you want to go from wannabe to newbie to successful entrepreneur, you’ve got to bust through some of the most common misconceptions about starting your own business. If you...

The Olympics are just around the corner. Just like the prior Olympics and the ones before that, the first place medal winners will be two seconds or two inches or...

Entrepreneurs like to use pessimistic numbers, because they prepare us for the absolute "worst case." Alas, we use flawed pessimistic numbers. The real worst case is inevitably way worse than...