This blog originally published in Printing Impressions Here we are at the midpoint of the year. You may be well into executing the key initiatives of your strategic plan, or you may be dusting off your secondary plan, also known as “plan B.” You’ve achieved...
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A Case for Lifelong Learning
This blog originally published in Printing Impressions Life is made up of a collection of our experiences. Those experiences are influenced by what we’ve done, where we’ve been, and who we’ve been around. They can be from our direct involvement or from what...
Expectations and a Mirror
Previously published in PI World It’s a great time to be in this business! Client projects continue to get more complex with multiple versions and complex mail lists, and printing requirements that have not let up. Timelines continue to creep shorter and the...
We Need More!
*This post originally published in Printing Impressions Let’s see if you’ve witnessed this situation before: The new sales rep is leaving the office to make sales calls. The owner meets her in the hallway and asks “what’s going on today?” She replies that she...
Risk and Responsibility, Part 1
As owners and members of the leadership team, you deal with the risk and responsibility for getting it right, making it right and keeping it right for the business, your employees and your customers. I’ve previously written about the importance of the three P’s -...
5 Steps and a Hurdle
Do great people lead to high performing companies or do high performing companies attract great people? Does having a laser-focused strategy lead to sustained growth or does growth justify a strategy that may have its flaws? Business leaders have been trying to answer...