April 2011

No More Micro Management!

April 20, 2011

Employee development comes when you understand that the best way to learn is through life lessons. Trying to solve all of the problems that your business faces by yourself is not the solution. Your people need to fail in order to learn. This industry is filled with micro-managers that can’t imagine letting anyone fail. Reviewing [...]

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Business Owner vs Entrepreneur vs CEO

April 20, 2011

We have met thousands of business owners over the past 20 years and few pass the test as a true CEO. Most are very smart and very capable business people that put CEO on their business card. What is it that makes a CEO successful? In Break Points we talk about a number of issues, [...]

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Bad Partnerships

April 20, 2011

I have met hundreds of owners that are in partnerships, and many that have been through the pain of exiting a partner out of a business. When you have that conversation about how the exit came to be and what it cost the organization, you can see the pain on the owner’s face. You can [...]

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Clarifying Conversations

April 8, 2011

You think you told someone what to do and they shook their head in agreement. It is now four days later and you are expecting that person to come back to you with a specific solution, at least that was your take-a-way from the earlier conversation. The only challenge is that this individual didn’t have [...]

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