The stockings were hung from the fireplace with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas would soon be there.
To my friends, family, clients and readers from all over - Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
2008 has been a challenging year, but there’s good reason to hope that betters days are in the future and we’ve certainly [...]
I was just on a great call with Verne Milot, Owner of Growth Associates and a colleague of mine through the Professional Business Coaches Alliance (PBCA).
Verne was doing a presentation on how to grow a professional services business and shared some of his personal experiences when he was just getting started a few years ago.
Although [...]
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The clock’s running downThe team’s losing groundTo the opposing defenseThe young quarterbackWaits for the snapWhen suddenly it all starts to make sense
He’s got all kinds of timeHe’s got all kinds of time
- Fountains of Wayne, All Kinds Of Time
Although the song is about football, the idea that things are coming at you fast [...]
There’s an old management adage - “You can’t manage what you can’t measure”.
This can be overstated (and make things way too complicated sometimes), but in general it’s hard to make improvements, in fact it’s even hard to know how you’re doing if you’re not measuring some key things.
As an example, one of the points that [...]
“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we [...]
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There are times when we make things harder than they have to be.
It can be really hard to grow your business - when you’re still in the first couple of years, not only are you doing all the work but you’re still going through a major learning curve. When you’re more established [...]
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I was at a networking event the other day and one of the people that I was meeting with remarked “You’re a Connector, aren’t you?”.
Malcolm Gladwell popularized the term Connector in his best selling book The Tipping Point a few years ago. Simplistically Connectors are people that know a lot of other [...]
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As a business owner, it can be difficult to stay focused on any one thing - you are constantly being pulled in different directions. You really need to hire someone but more importantly you need to get more clients in the door, you need be working ON your business and when you get [...]
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I try to make it to the gym most weekdays and it seems my schedule works out best generally late in the afternoon.
It turns out that Oprah is on from 4 to 5 and although I generally watch something like CNN or MSNBC, there are some days when Oprah has some pretty interesting [...]
There’s a lot of people talking about how bad the economy is, how bad the impact on business is and how there are a lot of similarities between today’s current environment and the Great Depression.
It’s all really cheerful stuff.
However, it does inspire reflection and in my case a bit of a history lesson.
I ran [...]
