Do You Think Like a Small Business Owner or Entrepreneur?

2022-05-25T08:41:38-07:00Entrepreneurship, Foundation, Personal Growth, Survival|

The Employee Scenarios Defined Several events recently occurred with client businesses that made me take a step back and really try to understand a why small business owner makes some of the decisions that [...]

Discipline – One Skill Every Successful Business Owner Has Mastered

2022-09-12T06:53:28-07:00Featured, Personal Growth, Recent|

I constantly get feedback and comments on how much sense the DE, Inc. SPARC Business Growth process and our approaches to business growth and business self-sustainability make for small business owner.  However, I have struggled [...]

Want an Absentee Owner Business? 3 Skill You Must Master

2022-05-10T07:56:30-07:00Self-Sustainability, Strategy, Succession_Exit|

Do you hope to take a vacation some day and not worry if your business will still be there when you return?  Then you need to set up for what I call business self-sustainability or [...]

Financial Freedom: How Big Do You Need to Grow Your Business?

2022-03-15T06:02:47-07:00Featured, Self-Sustainability, Strategy, Succession_Exit|

In the past few weeks I have had several small business owners who I’ve met with that were interested in creating self-sustainability in their business.  They loved the idea that the financial freedom and independence [...]

5 Steps for Creating Accountability in Your Business

2021-08-02T11:44:44-07:00Featured, Human Resources, Leadership|

Creating Accountability is Critical to Business Growth I talk with small business owners struggling with employee issues all the time.  I often hear “Oh, that stuff is just for big companies.  We only have a [...]

How Does Accountability Impact Business Execution

2022-09-12T07:11:33-07:00Featured, Leadership|

Accountability was 1 of the 10 items mentioned in the previous post titled Business Execution – 10 Things Make You More Effective.  But why is accountability important to business execution? According to Webster’s Dictionary, accountability [...]

High-Impact Business Planning

2019-02-16T18:00:28-07:00Uncategorized|

Thank you for ordering our High-Impact Business Planning training.  We're sure you will find this material helpful in walking you through the business planning process. Note this is not the same kind of business planning you [...]

CHANGE is the Main Purpose of Every Project

2018-02-10T11:05:03-07:00Featured, Personal Growth, Project Management, Self-Sustainability|

A good friend and associate of mine, Stacy Goff, has been saying for years that project managers are agents of change.  I’ve always believed this was true, however as I’ve begun my journey down the [...]

Successful Strategy Execution – Can It Happen Without Good Leadership?

2016-05-23T06:54:31-07:00Featured, Leadership, Project Management|

Can successful strategy execution happen without good leadership?  My answer is that depends. Most people would say that it take as leader to lead the battle.  But I ask you, how many times have you [...]

Sound Project Management (PM): A Key to Successful Strategy Execution

2022-01-13T09:14:21-07:00Featured, Leadership, Management, need keyword|

Strategy execution is a current theme at Your Small Business Growth.  So, I have been giving strategy execution a lot of thought.  There have been lots of connections that I have made as I think [...]

Business Execution – 10 Things Make You More Effective

2019-12-14T08:51:25-07:00Featured, Home Page, Leadership, Management, Strategy|

Last week I started a new set of articles focused on execution titled Why Business Execution in Critical to Successful Growth.  In it I tried to convey the difference between just taking action and business [...]

Why Business Plan Execution is Critical to Successful Business Growth

2019-08-22T23:08:44-07:00Featured, Leadership|

Businesses plan for growth all the time.  The difference between the successful ones complete  the business plan execution! It seems simple.  But, how many times have you planned something and then never followed through?  Business plan [...]

Why is Project Management Critical to Business Growth

2019-02-17T09:03:06-07:00Featured, Planning, Project Management|

For years I have tried to spread the word that business growth is a standardized process  as I documented in my post The Search for Business Growth Continues. The main premise is that a business matures through [...]