Look back on your past year. How many initiatives and projects did you tell yourself, your spouse and your team that you were going to accomplish? How much actually got done? Don’t worry, those horrible stats are what most establish owners struggle with and it all...
Being unaware of your true effective capacity as an individual and as a company is deadly. If the leader of the company overestimates his capacity, he’ll flood his company with unrealistic expectations, fantasy projects, and vague goals that will cripple the...
Just what the heck is a growth engine anyway? Where do you find them? How are they different from marketing solutions you can buy off the shelf? What exactly does the term Growth Engine mean? In this post we’ll cover the gist, key components, to help you filter out...
Track this: How much money is coming in and from which sources Right beneath our MVP metric of relationships, are dollars earned. News flash! Money matters! There I said it. There’s nothing wrong with the desire to be rich, nor being forthright and authentic by...
Track This: The number and quality of face to face meetings you have with people. Meetings offer opportunities to get belly to belly with people that matter to you. Getting face to face with your customers, partners and your team is certainly better in cases where you...
Track This: The number and quality of those people who like you, like what you do, and want you to succeed. Let’s begin by defining what I mean when I say fan. I’ll give you a hint, it has little to do with social media. A fan is someone who knows you, likes you,...
Track This: The number of visitors who interact with your business, and the experiential paths they take. Traffic, or the number of visitors who interact with your business or endeavor is incredibly important to measure. Whether you have a website or a brick and...
For many people it's part of starting the day and finishing it...watching the news. But in the Information Age, does it really serve you? Much of what networks refer to as “news” these days is not in fact honest or true news. It’s politically slanted commentary,...
Hey friends, I want to reach out with some tough love today. I want you to read it, though it will be hard. It will be sarcastic at times, and will pick on several ideas you've come to know and believe in success culture, but it will be worth it. You'll come out...
It is a standard tactic to position a product, service, or brand, as a transformative problem solver in order to attract the attention of the masses. However, if a business knowingly creates products, services, or environments that are designed to address only...
Everyone has something important they need to remember but, often our memories fade and decay over time. The likelihood of remembering a single piece of information decreases after each minute that passes. This is exacerbated by the fact that in the digital age, we’re...
On a quest to cut down on the noise in our lives, and focus on the things that really serve us, let’s start with the 800 inch Gorilla in the room. Don’t worry. We’re not purists either. We’re not going to recommend that you give up TV altogether. We are going to talk...
As leaders and ambitious professionals, we all want to cultivate the practices, habits, and culture that truly serve us. And we want to hit the eject button on all the garbage that does not serve us. The things that don’t serve us, act as roadblocks, keeping us from...
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