In a previous post titled What is Your Business Growth Stage? , I discussed 5 stages and 8 factors influencing business growth. This is based on extensive research and two decades of experiencing them in [...]
I learned my leadership very early in my career. In fact, I learned even before my career began. My leadership training came while I was in Air Force ROTC in college. From there I spent [...]
Why did you start your business in the first place? If you're like most owners you thought it was your way to get independence and financial and freedom. So, why haven't you gotten there? Because [...]
I run into business owners daily that are frustrated by how chained to their business they are. The reason for their frustration is that they started their business so that they could have MORE freedom, but [...]
Business self-sustainability is one of the key topic I write about regularly, and a key factor is having a business successor. That’s because there are so many benefits that you get with a successor. The [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I saw this article and infographic in Entrepreneur on how to develop a successful business plan and said “they nailed it!” You’ve heard me talk about successful business plans from time to time. It’s not the [...]
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 [...]
I made a prediction a while back that developing successful entrepreneurship will be the next big bubble. Not to be a negative nelly. But, there is lots of hype around successful entrepreneurship these days. And for [...]
Next week is Global Entrepreneurship Week! It’s hard to believe a year’s already gone by. However, how have your aspiration to become an entrepreneur progressed. If you follow any of my social media or blog [...]
This week I figured I would talk a little bit about the first step in the strategic planning process – defining your passion. A while back I wrote a posted titled Why So Many Small [...]
