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Preparing For What You Can’t See Coming
In two recent conversations the topic of ‘trending the unpredictable’ came up: how can we prepare for what we can’t see coming? In one conversation we broke down ‘the unknown’ into three areas:...
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What are you Worth? The Value of the Business Owner.
A client in the consumer education sector saw over a thousand dollars in revenue every time she filled a class. She filled those classes when she lit up her extensive and loyal email list. Another...
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The Universe Is Not On Your Side
While help comes from many places, the success of your business is yours to leverage into place with your own hands. Your customers won’t do it (no matter how delighted they are), time won’t do it,...
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Leaping Shadows – The Ultimate Small Business Strategy
There is a wonderful saying in German that my mother uses sometimes: Man kann nicht über seinen eigenen Schatten springen. Directly translated it says one cannot jump over one’s own shadow. The common...
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The Enterprise Cycle – Small Business Succession Part 1
When you begin you are your business’s most valuable asset. When you are done, if we do things right, your business is the most valuable asset in your life. That inversion is at the heart of the...
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Your Strategic Team
In The Business… On The Business We hear about the importance of working on the business rather than in the business. What are the implications for that as we build a team to reflect those priorities?...
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How Feedback Management Creates Business Momentum
I still remember my first ride on a bike. That first moment when no one was holding on, when it was just me and the machine and this incredible sense of flight. I wasn’t aware I was pedalling. I...
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The Bare Bones of Business
It started because one of us couldn’t make fire. I had a fresh kill from the savannah and you knew how to make fire. You were too old to hunt the savannah, but you knew the secret of fire. So we...
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Preparing For What You Can’t See Coming
In two recent conversations the topic of ‘trending the unpredictable’ came up: how can we prepare for what we can’t see coming? In one conversation we broke down ‘the unknown’ into three areas:...
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What are you Worth? The Value of the Business Owner.
A client in the consumer education sector saw over a thousand dollars in revenue every time she filled a class. She filled those classes when she lit up her extensive and loyal email list. Another...
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The Universe Is Not On Your Side
While help comes from many places, the success of your business is yours to leverage into place with your own hands. Your customers won’t do it (no matter how delighted they are), time won’t do it,...
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We’re Lost Until We’re Making A Difference
What makes us a unique species is not just an opposable thumb or an awareness of time or a capacity for language. What makes us different is the urge to tinker. We can’t leave well enough alone....
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Want Your Business To Grow? Make a List.
You can’t manage time. You can only manage priorities. If you want to grow your business making more money isn’t enough. You must make more money while putting in less time. As long as your business...
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The Enterprise Cycle – Small Business Succession Part 2
In the first article on the Enterprise Cycle we looked at the vision for the Enterprise Cycle of your business. Here, we’ll look at the nuts and bolts of getting to this phase. As the owner of a small...
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The Enterprise Cycle – Small Business Succession Part 3
The story so far… Part 1: imagining the enterprise. The business owner decides she doesn’t want to work 7 days a week for the rest of her life. Part 2: how you get there. The business owner discovers...
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The Bare Bones of Business
It started because one of us couldn’t make fire. I had a fresh kill from the savannah and you knew how to make fire. You were too old to hunt the savannah, but you knew the secret of fire. So we...
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Preparing For What You Can’t See Coming
In two recent conversations the topic of ‘trending the unpredictable’ came up: how can we prepare for what we can’t see coming? In one conversation we broke down ‘the unknown’ into three areas:...
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What are you Worth? The Value of the Business Owner.
A client in the consumer education sector saw over a thousand dollars in revenue every time she filled a class. She filled those classes when she lit up her extensive and loyal email list. Another...
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The Universe Is Not On Your Side
While help comes from many places, the success of your business is yours to leverage into place with your own hands. Your customers won’t do it (no matter how delighted they are), time won’t do it,...
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We’re Lost Until We’re Making A Difference
What makes us a unique species is not just an opposable thumb or an awareness of time or a capacity for language. What makes us different is the urge to tinker. We can’t leave well enough alone....
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