The role a leader takes and their general outlook on the business, greatly affects the trajectory of any organization. The goal may be to minimize risk at all costs to protect the current state of affairs. For others, the goal may be to carefully design a strategy...
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Mike Philie
Winning New Business — Lead With Information, Leave With a Problem That Needs to be Solved
If you are one of the many print businesses that are cruising past their 2019 revenue numbers, you can stop reading here. Just keep doing what you’ve been doing. If you are not one of those businesses, maybe you should look at the effectiveness of your marketing and...
Effective Printing Industry Leaders and Their Teams
A day in the life of a printing company owner, CEO, or president, could make your head spin. It’s not for the faint of heart and there’s always plenty to do. Having a good system and a good team to help prioritize, delegate, and engage others are success factors that...
Leading Indicators for Your Printing Business — Your People
It goes without saying for any business, but in particular for those in the graphic communications space, that having an engaged workforce has never been more important. I get to work with printing companies throughout the country and witness the value of having teams...
Value-Added Break Even — Know What Day You Start Making Money
Having your hands firmly on the wheel while you’re navigating the s-curves of your favorite mountain roadway can be both thrilling and exhilarating. Those two words though, shouldn’t be the adjectives you use to describe how you run your business. What words do you...
Three Steps to Make the Most of Your Next Acquisition
An important part of any company’s growth strategy includes some form of acquisition, tuck-in, or merger. A business does this to accelerate their growth in a manner that is faster than growth through organic sales. Making the most of these types of transactions...