To grow a business you need to grow sales. Improving sales is one of the top 5 challenges for Stage 1 (1-10 employees) and Stage 2 (11-19 employees). Improving sales at any stage of growth can be a challenge. How do you do it? I have written before about the three customers everyone sells […]
What Can You Learn From the Shoe Dog, Phil Knight (NIKE)???
Phil Knight, founder of what is now NIKE, wrote the story of his journey from starting the company to its present day success in his 2016 book –Shoe Dog. That year, Bill Gates picked it as one of his favorite books. If you are an entrepreneur or CEO of a company there are some great […]
Effective Leadership and YOU
There are a number of ways to look at leadership, but they all boil down to this. As the CEO, you want to be an effective leader. The 5 Levels of Leadership. One way to view leadership is as John Maxwell has written about in The 5 Levels of Leadership. The lowest level is Position […]
Knowing the Road Ahead – 2019
What’s Going to Happen in 2019 Wouldn’t it be great if you knew what was going to happen in 2019 so you could be prepared? What impact will the new congress mean, what will happen with tariffs, will there be a recession, is the Central Bank going to continue to raise rates, etc. Various “experts” […]
The Big Move from CEO Centric to Enterprise Centric
In the Beginning You launched your business with your special knowledge and skills, plus a vision of how to deliver a better product or service. With your success, you started to grow the business and added employees. As you continued to grow and add more employees, things begin to get more complex. It’s a simple […]