Get in the Success Equation
What I’m Thinking About: Paint a Picture of Success My business partner, Dan Long, is a big picture thinker. He’s great at visualizing...
Own Your Business Before It Owns You
What I’m Thinking About: All Stressed Up and Nowhere to Go Last week my business partner, Dan, asked a small business owner how business...
Stop Whining, Start Winning!
What I’m Thinking About: Negative Nellies Making Too Much Noise Ingratitude often sounds like “I don’t know why I have to do that. It’s...
New Generations Need New Leadership
What I’m Thinking About: Older Leaders, Outdated Leadership Style In America, we now have 5 generations in the workforce: Greatest Gen,...
Building Business Boundaries
What I’m Thinking About: Boundaries in Business Last week I heard a woman in the adult care industry speak about the importance of...
Getting Out of the Rocking Chair
What I’m Thinking About: Going in the Right Direction Business planning is all about deciding to move forward in the “right” direction....
Get Out of the Weeds!
What I’m Thinking About: Weeds Get in the Way of Growth This week I spent about 8 hours pulling weeds out of garden areas. Weeds grow...
Spring Training
What I’m Thinking About: Training Wreck My neighbors headed to Phoenix to enjoy Major League Baseball spring training this week. I...
Spring Break
What I’m Thinking About: Breakdown Ahead Tension builds. Tempers flare. Employees argue. Productivity declines as stress rises. Employees...
Employee Handbooks are Handy
What I’m Thinking About: The Left Hand Doesn’t Know What the Right Hand is Doing Frequently overheard from business leaders: “I don’t...
Problem Solving Solved. DO IT!
What I’m Thinking About: Solving Problems Can Be a Problem Businesses exist because they provide a product or service to solve a problem....
Ready, Set Grow
What I’m Thinking About: Spring is the Season of Hope As spring arrives and the Northern Hemisphere leans towards the sun, our days “get...
Leading Change from the Front
What I’m Thinking About: No Forward Movement Means Moving Backwards Dan and I worked with a client whose business was really struggling....
Business Rehab Takes Courage
What I’m Thinking About: Business Fixer Uppers At a recent business breakfast, a man asked for my business card. He’d heard about how Dan...
Employee Feedback is a Gift
What I’m Thinking About: Employees are the Company’s Greatest Asset While working with small business owners, I always recommend having a...
Mission Impossible to Mission Possible
What I’m Thinking About: Mission Confusion Means Execution Confusion In 2018, I met with a small technology company team to help them...
Business, Like Wine, Needs Tending
What I’m Thinking About: Vineyards as a Metaphor for Business While traveling, I chanced upon an article about a business alchemist,...
Making the Grade with Customers
What I’m Thinking About: Studying What Customers Want All products, goods and services exist to meet a customer need, to solve a problem....
Organizational Change
What I’m Thinking About: Managing Change Change is a constant in life: at home, in relationships, at work. At home, my husband and I are...
Take Little Steps to Reach Big Goals
What I’m Thinking About: Annual Goals? Big Commitment! For the last three weeks, I wrote about business goals. I recommended that you set...