In order to achieve business and personal growth, you have to make sure that those around you are growing as well. One of the most satisfying engagements I have had during the past year is one in which I witnessed …
What is the speed with which you and your organization can accomplish a goal? It is no secret that the world moves at a much quicker pace than it did even a few years ago but is your business keeping …
Recently I wrote What Can You Learn from a Waterfall? and Is Your Pool of Capital Sufficient? In both issues, I used water as an analogy to the cash flow and profitability of a business. In this issue, there are …
I recently had lunch with a colleague and the subject of my monthly newsletter came up. I jokingly said that I should fire the guy responsible for building and maintaining my email list. Frankly, he’s not very good at it. …
The other morning my five year old asked what I was doing and I said I was starting to write my monthly newsletter. He said, “Daddy, why don’t you write about our waterfall?” It didn’t take me long to realize …
What is the role of your board? While I realize that many small companies have neither an official or unofficial board, bigger companies have a board of directors. Articles abound about the purpose of a board of directors and I …
Do your employees hustle . . . and do you give them a reason to? The other day a young man came walking up my driveway with a leaf rake. Usually I rake the leaves myself – I actually enjoy …
Like many others, I worked construction jobs during my high-school and college days. I remember one particular job remodeling a bar when the boss asked me to knock a hole in a solid concrete wall for an electrical outlet. He …
Last month, I asked “What Are You Driving?” which was targeted at the change and results for which you are responsible rather than the car that gets you to work and back. Today, I’d ask a different but related question: …
Clearly, that’s a question that can be taken more than one way. If the headline brought to mind the vehicle that gets you to work, around town, and on family vacations, that’s a reasonable way to think about the question. …
