One of the first exercises I have clients do is to draw their company’s organization chart. Not the one they currently have - but the one that they envision for the future - what the company should look like.
Try it: Draw your chart. It will have the usual boxes - sales, operations, marketing, etc. Maybe [...]

Seth Godin is a guru you should know! In his latest blog, he addresses the tendency of humans to avoid the tasks that will define the future by getting buried in the tasks that address the past or current.
Enjoy this short article.

You may not have thought you’d ever use all that lever stuff you learned in grade school, but you need it now! We define Leverage as Ever More With Ever Less - getting more results with less and less work.
Leverage is all about Systems - set up your system once and get the benefits forever. [...]

Here’s a great tip I received from my coach:
Sometimes, at the end of the day, I found myself staring at a yellow pad full of undone To Do’s. This can freeze you and keep you from being productive to the very end. One way to thaw you out is to choose The One Thing you [...]

The biggest complaint I hear from business owners isn’t lack of profit - it’s lack of time. Business owners work more hours and get paid less than almost everyone on their team. But they don’t know what to do about it.
My first question is, “Who on the team should be helping take the pressure off?”. [...]

“What do you do in your job?” asked my 15 year old daughter, Bethany. So I thought about it for a minute and shared a story of a business man who struggles with feeling the need to be involved in the minutiae of his business but wants to spend more time with his family. “I [...]