Are you getting to the heart of the matter?
Question:How are beautiful peonies like business issues? Answer: If you dig deep enough or stare long enough, you will see the heart of the matter.
How does innovation occur in your organization?
Is it random? lucky? At the whim of the founder?
If you were starting your business today, what would you do differently?
So many new businesses in old industries are successful because of the assumptions they disrupt: how we buy books (or anything), how we get from point A to point B,
Have you laid out the steps to achieve your stretch goal for 2017?
Last week we discussed a stretch goal I made for hiking in 2016. This week I said I would discuss how to reach a stretch goal. Sometimes, we think people reach their goals without very deliberate practice. Ha! That has not been my experience. Let’s say your stretch goal for 2017 is to grow 50% more […]
Did you set yourself a stretch goal for 2017?
Last year my family hiking group set a goal of hiking through Matterhorn Canyon in the north eastern corner of Yosemite National Park. It is 20 miles from any road
How are you making the pie bigger?
Entrepreneurs are tricksters – they create something where there was naught. It could be a new way to buy every day items like groceries. It could be a product we didn’t know we needed like an I-pad. Currently, it is all about
How do you leave if you are the owner?
It’s impossible to give two weeks notice when it is your own company. And, as much as most owner operators daydream about escape every now and then,
Are you investing enough to make new projects succeed?
Take a look at a few paragraphs from the Los Angeles Times of May 14, 2016. “Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday threw his support behind an ambitious $2-billion plan to build housing for California’s mentally ill homeless population. “The governor’s action comes as cities from Los Angeles to San Francisco, have seen homelessness increase in recent years, sparked […]
How do you keep focus on your strategic projects? – Part 2
Last week we laid out a tactical plan for how to make progress on your strategic projects. I had some feed back about how people executed on the plan. A Senior Leader of an organization with over 300 people, shared my blog with her direct reports and together they made plans for this week, honoring […]
How do you keep focus on your strategic projects?
As a Vistage Chair, I often hear a speaker more than once – sometimes 3 days in a row. I always learn something from each talk, and this week was no different. Mike Scott was giving his advanced workshop on accountability, and he asked us to write down our top strategic projects. I wrote down […]