3 Nimble Hiring Principles That Are Guaranteed to save You Grief
I want to propose three principles and a simple yet powerful hiring model that will dramatically increase your hiring process’s effectiveness and reduce the time you spend hiring.
The Ultimate Guide to Holding an Incredible Executive Offsite – Day One
From day one, this step-by-step agenda will give you and your team an opportunity to reflect on past successes and challenges and cast a vision for the company so powerful and enduring that it will outlast everyone in the room.
The Ultimate Guide to Holding an Incredible Executive Offsite – Before the Meeting
Over the last ten years, I've learned more ways not to hold an executive offsite meeting than I'd like to admit. In this series, I've taken the lessons I've learned from each of those failures and put together the perfect offsite plan so you and your team can create the perfect strategy to grow your organization!
The Invisible but Unstoppable Power of Humble Honesty
I want to share with you one of the most powerful principles I learned as a leader. Like many truths, there is no black and white, no simple fix, but there are timeless principles that can guide you through the challenges we all face working together with others.
The principle is this: Working together requires humility and honesty.
Do You Know What Type of Founder You Are?
Did you know there are different types of founders? Do you know what type you are? Did you know that there are different strategies for each type of founder? Where many founders get it wrong is they choose the wrong strategies simply because fail to recognize these differences.
Is Your Magic Eight Ball Messing Up Your Decisions?
Great leaders distinguish themselves from bad or even just good leaders by their ability to make the right decisions at the right time. There is a mystique that surrounds a great leader's ability to make great decisions, and I see it all the time in founders.
Five Ways to Truly Empower Your People
Great leaders empower their people. Good leaders think they empower their people. The gap between the two is much greater than you think. In this article, I’ll give you 5 ways to bridge that gap!
Five Ways to Align Every Person and Every Action
Does everyone in your company understand your common goals? Does everyone in your company agree with those goals? Does everyone in your company work effectively and efficiently toward achieving those goals? If not, you might be surprised how much it is costing you every day.
Five Ways to Overcome Toxic Departmental Silos
I'm going to share with you the five ways I learned to overcome the departmental silos that develop in virtually every single growing business. Each of these five strategies will help you build the cross-functionality that will allow the organization to work across functions and between silos, at all levels, in an organic, natural manner.
Online Leads and Sales for Any Business in Any Industry
In my marketing work with clients, I specialize in helping great businesses that are already bringing in a million dollars or more in sales. These businesses all shared a problem this year that came sharply into focus. Their sales success has been 100% offline.
How to Create a Marketing Strategy in times of Uncertainty
If you haven't updated your marketing strategy since the COVID-19 induced shutdown began back in March, your time is running out. Unfortunately, that's what is happening for many businesses. But how should you market with so much is still up in the air?
Should You Pivot or Innovate?
Should you be pivoting your business right now? How do you know when to pivot, and how do you know what to pivot to? Should you jump to a new industry to make ends meet or even make the switch altogether? The COVID-19 pandemic has got business owners and leadership teams scrambling to answer these questions.