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.
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.
Reinventing Your Big Rut Organization Post COVID-19
What is it like to be in Big Rut? Well, the business looks great on the outside. It looks even better from where management sits in their beautiful corporate offices. However, the employees will tell you the truth in their words, their actions, or both that the organization died on the inside long ago.
ReIgnite Your Treadmill Organization Post COVID-19
A company's fate is decided in Treadmill. In this article, I'll show you what happens to this decision in the wake of (or middle of) the COVID pandemic, and what strategies you can implement to use the crisis productively to turn things around and pull the business back into Predictable Success.
Reinforcing Your Predictable Success Organization Post COVID-19
In the middle of all the economic hardship and social upheaval we are experiencing right now, there is an opportunity for some businesses to grow faster than ever. This is a strategy that companies in Predictable Success can use today to create years of growth and come out of the crisis, not only surviving but thriving and better off because of it.
Regrouping Your Whitewater Organization Post COVID-19
If your business was in Whitewater in March, the last five months have likely been brutal. Stuck between Fun and Predictable Success, you didn't have the agility or the depth to weather the economic uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. But there is hope! Here are the three phases of what I believe is the best strategy for you to regroup and get your business back into winning form.
Rebuilding Your Fun Organization Post COVID-19
2020 was set to be a banner year. And then March hit, and all that momentum evaporated in a moment. If your small business was stable before COVID-19 but is now struggling, this article will help you to create and execute the right strategy to not only recover but thrive!
Relaunching Your Early Struggle Organization Post COVID-19
If you are wondering if your new business is going to make it, this article will help you clearly navigate what is likely to be some very difficult decisions for you and your new business. If you haven't started your new business yet, but you are considering it, I believe you'll find this article incredibly helpful as well. I'm going to be painfully honest with you because if you choose to proceed, you need to know what you'll be facing. Before that, though, you could probably use a little hope right now.
We’re Going to Need a Bigger Boat
One common misconception leaders have is to believe they can scale their business by doing more of what they've always done. Pivot. Say yes. Save the day. Then, do it all over again. However, growing and scaling are two completely different challenges.
How Can You Find Freedom in Your Business?
How do you decide who you let in influence the vision and direction of your company? I'm not just asking about ownership, but on other issues like leadership, decisions, advice, and authority, who do you allow inside?