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Breaking the Shackles of a Business' Past
The past is never dead. It's not even past. - by William FaulknerA vexing challenge in attaining a business breakthrough of any...
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What the Research Shows about Strategic Plans
The research is conclusive:A study completed by the University of Oregon showed that companies that prepare business plans are 20% more likely to grow their business, and twice as likely to secure...
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Great Advisory Boards: Harnessing Their Power
Over the past few weeks, I have talked about the demonstrable, high ROI of strategic planning for companies of all types and sizes, along with suggested processes and tactics to complete that plan on...
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More Risk. Good for Your Business?
Risk is good. Not properly managing your risk is a dangerous leap. - Evel Knievel"The Strategy Paradox,"...
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Why Most Businesses Get Stuck (And What to Do About It)
Why do the vast majority of businesses get “stuck” - doing well enough to "stay alive" but not even close to being either a) a source of significant cash flow for their owners or b) an attractive...
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In Business, Making Real Choices and Avoiding False Ones
Effective executives avoid false choices, decisions where only limited, and variously unattractive, alternatives are considered.Instead, when confronted with a false choice, the best executives reframe...
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Bridging the Global Achievement Gap
The fundamental challenge of modern business is finding that right balance between tactics and strategy, between execution and innovation, between management and entrepreneurship.Typically, as...
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Taking Exponential Business Leaps Forward
“Work on Your Business, Not In It”This popular, and somewhat cliched refrain, has for many years been suggested as a managerial and entrepreneurial best practice, and as "the...
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In Modern Business, Authenticity Trumps All
Today, almost all businesses interact with and relate to their perspective and existing clients through multiple channels: in-person, on the phone, over e-mail and increasingly text, via social media...
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When Buying (Not Starting) a Business is the Right Strategic Choice
Wal-Mart.McDonalds. Starbucks. What do they have in common? Well, for one, they are businesses that were not started and grown from scratch by their original founders.Rather, they were all started by...
View ArticleGetting to the Right Strategy in 15 Minutes or Less
I regularly engage with entrepreneurs and executives to help them determine the right long-term strategic plans and goals to pursue, toward the end of maximizing their businesses’ valuations and their...
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Virtue: The Hidden Secret of Great Companies
In his classic tome, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," Edward Gibbon famously theorized why the Romans, who ruled the Ancient World for close to 1,000 years, fell to such a...
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Strategic Excitement: A Key to Effortless Business Success
[Click Here to register for my Thursday Webinar: The Seven Keys to Business Plan Success]Probably the most important question to ask when developing a business or strategic plan is who should be...
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Walking the Talk of Business Growth
Innovative. Nimble. High energy. Opportunity - focused.Stuck. Ponderous. Tired. “Hanging in there” - focused.Which set of the above best describes your business? Which would your employees use to...
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The Best Place to Invest? Other People's Businesses.
An endearing, but dangerous quality of entrepreneurs and small business owners is their propensity to go all-in -- not only pouring all of their lives, hearts and souls into their business, but all of...
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The Spirit of America
On this great day when we celebrate America, its freedoms and way of life, please enjoy (and as you are moved share with the hashtag #SpiritofAmerica) this list of thirty - five of why this is the...
View ArticleWhy Business Intelligence is So Hard [And What to do About It]
Over the past few weeks, I have written about the amazing growth and financial progress of Business Intelligence (BI) companies like Domo, Birst, and Looker and how their rise to prominence and value...
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The Best Entrepreneurs are Investors, and Vice Versa
The smartest, most creative, and effective business men and women more often than not can be best described as "Investor – Entrepreneurs,” evaluating and pursuing opportunities through the...
View ArticleThe Power of Advisors
A great best practice for all companies of ambition is to establish and hold regular meetings of a well-qualified and experienced Board of Strategic Advisors.Let’s set aside for now some of the...
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Breaking Through The Business Malarkey
An ongoing entrepreneurial and executive challenge is blocking out all distractions and focusing and executing upon what is important above all else - pursuing opportunities of high value and potential...
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