Category: Planning

First “Who” 

In Good to Great, Jim Collins introduces a critical concept to the long-term success of any great institution (including an individual): first “who”, then “what”. 

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A Useful Life 

I recently ran across a Twitter post beginning with this statement…  “A busy life is not a symbol of status. It’s a symptom of trying

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The Right Rooms 

One of the most important questions business owners and leaders who are looking to grow must ask is: am I in the right rooms?  By

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How to Win Long-Term 

What is proactive, strategic thinking? It’s about long-term success. Winning, success, whatever you want to call it, can be defined however you want: the largest

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Responding

  One of the biggest improvement opportunities for busy professionals is responding rather than reacting.  The person at the top of the organizational chart got

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Anticipating 

Recently, at a church service, an altar server caused a short pause by not anticipating a routine task during the service. As a former altar

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Prepare in the Good Times 

Think back to March 2020. How many individuals and businesses wish they’d not spent that moderate-to-large amount on that discretionary purchase in February? How many

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Time Heals 

I’m all about solutions. Find a problem? Solve it. Have a cool solution? Find a problem it solves and apply it.  But there are some

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Dashboards 

A critical tool to reduce reactive behavior as the owner or leader of an organization: data dashboards that provide glanceable information on the status and

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