As you lead your organization, you will look for new ways of doing things, and you’ll consider the experiences you’ve had and what you’ve learned that made a positive impact. Running my own firm has taught me many valuable life lessons, both professional and personal, which has provided me with the context to formulate [...]
To make a lasting positive change starts with wanting to make change happen in the first place. Change is very interesting and challenging because when you think about it, it often makes people have to vote for or against something or someone. This can be incredibly hard to do. The insights we need to [...]
“The leader of the past knew how to tell. The leader of the future knows how to ask.” —Peter Drucker Storytelling for the past decades has been haloed by just about every marketing and creative voice worldwide. Disney had an entire company dedicated to storytelling that they applied to not only their marketing but for [...]
Deciding to rethink what you eat to lose weight is a fairly straight-forward process. It might be challenging if you really like certain ‘food groups’ — and you know which ones I’m talking about — but determining which ones to continue or stop eating is fairly easy. However, when it comes to your business strategy [...]
If you're anything like me, you tend to put off the more difficult things and work on the easy things first. Of course, there is a lot of debate about whether this is the best way to attack our projects, but we all tend to form habits that we find work best. So whatever way [...]
To build a great company, we need to understand how to build a great team because without them we will be hard-pressed to get beyond first stage growth. The greatest leaders have always ascribed their success to their team. Listen to a few famous quotes from some well-known leaders: “Talent wins games, but teamwork [...]
During the past several years, I have observed more and more leaders learning the true value of their leadership teams and employees. With all of the changes taking place in the marketplace, we have come to appreciate the value of human contact and discussion. Aren’t you glad we can now start going places and [...]
Wouldn’t it be great if we could decide just six things each day that would lead to our success? Well, we can. The result of these critical questions would mean that instead of getting stuck in a strategic challenge, we could find a way to unclog, unblock, and release us from what holds us [...]
Strategic planning came into its own during the 1950s and 1960s and has grown into an annual event for organizations of all types, including for profit and nonprofit. The strategic planning process places tremendous pressure on leaders and their teams in terms of time and resources. There are innumerable factors to weigh, such as [...]
Achieving sustainable and scalable sales is the natural output of a successful broad analysis of factors. A PEST Analysis is commonly used to assess extremely broad factors of Political, Economic, Socio-demographic (social), and Technological. These four factors apply significant pressure and influence on a business’s current and future prospects. Knowing what will provide an [...]