For the purpose of this article, I’m assuming you already have a BHAG®, a 10-30 year goal. For review, BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) is a term coined by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras. It should be inspiring, reinforce business fundamentals, and drive you to greatness. If you don’t have a BHAG please go back […]

Often when we think about delegation, we think about technical aspects, like how to communicate clearly what’s expected, or when and how to follow-up, or a myriad of other specifics. While all of those skills are important to learn, your delegation efforts will fall short if you don’t address your own mindset first. What do […]

If you have a B2B company, I’d like to challenge you to think differently. When we think “business to business,” it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking about demographic information about the companies you target. They are in Oregon, for example, have annual revenue between $15M and $150M, and have between 50 and […]

How often do you think about cash? If you are like most CEOs and business owners I know, the answer is every day. How often do you think about cash with the intention of doing something about it? Fewer of you will answer “often” to that question. In good times, seeing that generous bank balance […]

I’ve been noticing that everyone is experiencing more chronic stress right now than they were prior to 2020. Increased stressors could be due to financial insecurity, having kids at home doing remote learning, some or all of the time, having young adult children back in the house, relationship stress that comes from the other person […]

Cause and effect sound obvious. There’s a cause, and then there’s an effect. Something happens and that causes something else to happen. But what does that mean for you in your life? Are you at cause in your life or are you at effect? Are you the kind of person that normally thinks, “Well, someone […]