Wired To Grow

When an employee, or spouse, or even an enemy questions you, how do you respond? Do you tend to get defensive? Do you go on the attack? Do you retreat? How do you respond? Over the years, whenever I’ve watched leaders experience a negative comment or accusation, I’ve usually had to coach most of them [...]

How often do you create goals and plans that never come to fruition? If you’re like most owners, entrepreneurs and service professionals the answer is … “More often that I care to admit.” So what makes you think this year will be different? By now, you’ve already announced to your people a set of goals [...]

If you’re like most of the owners, entrepreneurs and service providers I know, chances are you have a lot of things you want to accomplish this year, correct? Absolutely! You wouldn’t be in charge if you didn’t. However, if you’re also like most of the people I know, I can also guarantee one other thing [...]

The good news is, you want to attract more clients/customers! You want to encourage your current customers to buy from you more frequently? And you want to encourage them to buy more expensive packages of your services and/or products. The bad news is, if you’re like most owners and entrepreneurs, your marketing efforts aren’t yielding [...]

Ever get frustrated with your employees/staff because they’re not all on the same page? Chances are you have—in fact, every leader I’ve ever met has felt that way at one time or another. So, here’s my question for you, who’s fault is that? Now, I ask that question, not to be mean, but because I [...]

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As we kick off this new year, how are you feeling? If you’re like most of the business people I interact with, you’re probably feeling pretty excited. Hey, when you have 360 plus days in front of you, anything is possible. But, as I’ve talked with my clients and with others over the past week [...]

One of the interesting correlations on the recent reader survey I conducted was between questions two and three. Question #2 was, “Which of the following issues are problems that you’re wrestling with in your business or organization?” and Question #3 was, “What topics would you like me to write more about?” I say interesting because [...]

Simply put, if your business or organization isn’t growing, you have a culture problem. In other words, businesses don’t plateau or decline for no reason at all. There’s always a reason. And usually it’s a culture problem. Assuming that you’re the leader of your business or organization (i.e. your the kind of person who normally [...]

In my book, the greatest entrepreneurial lie of all time is the one that states that if you run your own business, you’ll have all the free time you want! And clearly, the best summary of that idea is found in the title of Tim Ferris’ classic, “The Four Hour Work Week.” Yeah, right! I [...]