Cover Me

Sep 04, 2023

Nothing suggests excitement or suspense quite like someone saying, “Cover me.” When you hear this, you know something big is about to happen. In movies it might be a safety […]

Falling In Love

May 01, 2023

What is it about small business owners that causes so many of us to fall in love with the people we hire? I don’t mean this in the romantic sense; […]

20th Anniversary Issue, Part II

Apr 17, 2023

I Don’t Wanna Grow Up, Part II One of the main reasons small businesses stop growing is because the owner himself stops growing. In the past I have referred to […]

20th Anniversary Issue, Part I

Apr 03, 2023

I Don’t Wanna Grow Up, Part 1 At some point in our lives, I would expect all of us have been exposed to the story of Peter Pan, either through […]

Fired Up

Mar 20, 2023

If you follow the logic of a business colleague and friend of mine, Mark, the unfavorable connotation so many of us attribute to getting fired is overrated. Mark is the […]

The Cherry On Top

Mar 06, 2023

Who doesn’t like an old-fashioned ice cream sundae? They’re guaranteed to brighten the day of any child and to bring out the child in any adult—especially those, unlike this author, […]

Keeping it Real

Feb 20, 2023

Most of us listen to podcasts or read blogs sent to us by people whose opinions we respect. One blog I read is by a New York University professor named […]

$400 Decision

Feb 06, 2023

At a recent program, one of my colleagues, Chris McQueen, and I were trying to convey the concept of executive growth by measuring the dollar value of the decisions that […]

Grocery Store Test

Jan 23, 2023

I was once asked by a business journal in Phoenix to comment on what I felt was a core competency of a company I had been working with for some time and that the journal […]

Futurists

Jan 09, 2023

Starting the new year by writing about strategic planning is a pretty sure way to lose your audience of readers. After all, strategic planning is usually associated with boring discussions […]