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Are you a crazy entrepreneur?
Reading Shoe Dog by Phil Knight, I was reminded over and over of how crazy entrepreneurs are. First off, they are trying to create something
Who vets your decisions?
When you have an important decision to make, do you make it by yourself?Do you talk to other people on your management team? Or,
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
What is the attitude you are choosing?
Friday, I attended the Grand Guarantee Conference put on by Western Waterworks for their vendors and customers.They had a Keynote speaker Walter Bond who spoke
How do you stay in the conversation when it gets tense?
So, the issue is critical, the relationship is important and you totally disagree. Now what? Having the conversational capacity and the tools to structure the
Are you training your people to beat the competition?
The Q4 Vistage CEO Confidence Survey stated that …”the expected upsurge in business prospects have given a new urgency to finding, hiring, training, and retaining
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
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
Are you celebrating the good?
I hope this week of holidays brings you joy! The busyness of decorating the house with holiday traditions, buying presents, sending cards, calling friends
Does who you are “being” speak so loudly I cannot hear what you are saying?
All of us have had the experience of meeting someone that we don’t like and not being able to explain exactly why we feel that
Do people speak up at your organization when something negative happens?
How likely is it that someone will call out a fellow team member when they take a shortcut counter to policy, or when someone talks
Do you model results then work backwards to your actions?
Assume you want to have Net Income of 10%. And, you currently have Net Income of 7% What would you have to do to increase
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