Business owners live and breathe their businesses and are the very individuals most motivated to identify breakthrough solutions to issues or breakthrough ways to capture new opportunity. Sometimes, however, it is the connection and the closeness to the business that can create blind spots and result in missed or slighted ...
Continue ReadingDo you, as a leader of a company, an organization, or a team embrace those passionate sometimes testy “challengers” among your ranks? Do you create an environment that empowers and supports alternative views for meeting opportunities or resolving challenges? If not, there are potentially a wealth of great ideas that ...
Continue ReadingTo some, just the word “Strategy” conjures up visions of big company leaders, sitting at large mahogany tables, surrounded by binders of spreadsheets, and surrounded by graphs and charts tacked up on the wall. However, as I’ve noted in other posts in the past, my experience has been that companies, ...
Continue ReadingI love art, so I sometimes take liberties with analogies related to art and business, because the visual often serves as an amazing source for igniting my own creativity and even prompting solutions when problem solving. Many of you may be familiar with M.C. Escher, and as such, you know ...
Continue ReadingAspiring to growth for leaders and entrepreneurs alike is not a one size fits all proposition – options include top line growth, profitable bottom line growth, sustainable growth, explosive growth, and more. The disruptive world of today offers so many dimensions to consider for achieving growth aspirations - many of which ...
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