As the summer of 2022 winds down, it’s a good time to review what you’ve accomplished so far this year. What grade would you give yourself? If you are like many business leaders, you started off the year with great ideas about what you wanted to accomplish. You...
We see it every day. Amateur and professional athletes putting in the work, the extra hours before and after practice just to get better. They work to improve, to get quicker and stronger. They work to make the cut, to make the team, and most importantly, to be the...
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...
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...
There’s a saying that if it moves, you should measure it. Well I’m not sure if your senior leadership team moves, you should be measuring the effectiveness of the group. It’s one thing to do a performance review on each individual, as they are evaluated based on the...
Innovators and industry leaders can make managing a complex business look easy. Some may look at those businesses and say they are successful because they have the best people, or great clients. By looking under the hood though, you might also find that they have...