Build an Abiding Future for your Business
Build Your Bench Strength Immediately for a Better Exit Later
The WHO of YOUR Business.
Build Your Bench Strength Immediately for a Better Exit Later
How can you create a strategy that will actually work? Is the whole idea of having a strategy too “old school” now?
Have you ever wondered about how authors design their books? I get lots of questions about how I wrote this book and made these decisions.
Why share the Abiding Strategy process in a book? Why share this proprietary, original process that I developed? Here’s why…
Do we, as leaders and managers, set the best example when we push ourselves too hard this way? Read my latest article about Time.
The paradigm shifts we need to make as leaders sometimes can be daunting. Changes are coming so fast — we have to adapt to the change first.
Are you high tech, or are you low tech? When it comes to your “To-Do” list, a low tech method can work well for you.
It’s a proven fact — “Multitasking” doesn’t work. To succeed as a leader, focus on staying focused and staying the course.
How much has our long-term thinking been affected by the tendency to do everything at warp speed? Do we have the patience to work the plan?
Most of us have volunteered with an organization or charity that needed our help. But why do we do it?
Most of us have volunteered with an organization or charity that needed our help. But why do we do it?
The notion of “the team” has long been used as an analogy for leaders to encourage their employees.
Be sure to hire to your culture. Of course, that goes back to knowing what your culture is, and what you need.
Ok, you found someone to talk to about the job. Now, on to the interview. Don’t be fooled by industry-specific experience alone.
Once you’re competitive, and making current staff happy, where do you FIND talent? Are you properly prepared?
Companies are having a hard time finding, recruiting, and retaining capable & talented employees.
We have to trust ourselves. Scary thought. Right? Trust yourself. Trust your gut.
Feel free to talk about yourself. And remember, you are never “just.” You’re not just a new business. You’re not just a solopreneur. You’re not just a customer service rep. You are enough.
Exchange your values, your vision, your mission. Be in the 20% — 20% of American companies that even have strategy and plans. Everyone should have a strategy and plan.
We all like to play. Play regularly, on schedule. This is part of self-care, personally, but it’s also part of managing your people, once you have staff.
Know who you are, what you want to do, and how to pick the right thing for yourself. Keep everyone who works for you or with you, including vendors and others, engaged in the purpose of your mission.
Understand that humanity is a quality and not a detriment. Nurturing each other is part of a whole. We need to help each other. We need to step up for each other.
Try these approaches to get out of your own way: Optimize good behaviors; Listen to your coach, your colleagues, yourself; and Pay attention to what you don’t do.
Work on becoming really good at brevity — get the point across without using too many words.
How to be what your team needs and still be yourself. If you’re a living, breathing human you’ve probably told someone, “Just be yourself!”