When your company is growing quickly, it’s easy to become frustrated if your employees are focused in areas you don’t feel are important to the growth mission.
The flip side is:
When employees don’t have a full...
“You have probably heard if your company isn’t growing, it’s dying”
The SBA has statistics of small companies that start and go out of business within one, five and ten years. If you are a business owner, CEO or other executive responsible for...
Status quo noun -‘kwo: the current situation: the way things are now
“One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion” –Voltaire
The quote from Voltaire challenges us to not fall prey to the...
Of all the mistakes that growth companies make, here is one of the most common: you think your growing pains are unique. Think again. Your services may be exclusive; your products may be innovative. Your problems, well, those are the same issues...
Growing a business is not just doing the same thing you were before, only with more people or more money. As you add employees and pursue opportunities, your company will experience destabilization. It will feel chaotic. The difference between...
Think you have nowhere to go but up? Your company is booming; sales are pouring in, customers return, new prospects buy in, and you’re hiring like crazy to keep up with the demand. Without strong processes in place, though, there are plenty of...
As a leader you know you have to let go of control at some point if you want your business to grow. As your business grows beyond your reach it’s likely there is no supervision or support for how work gets done. Your people are just expected to...
We have all heard of the Golden Rule, treat others the way you want to be treated. Well the same goes for leadership, lead people the way you want to be lead. Most of us have worked for great leaders and some of us have even worked for leaders we...
Starting and building a business is never easy. A lot of variables determine which businesses will be successful and which ones will fail. The Small Business Administration figures show that 80% of new business will fail in the first year. Of...
