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 [...]
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 [...]
The debate over strategy vs tactics rages on and on. It is an important topic, and I will show you why in a moment. However, if you ask any trusted adviser you’ll find that [...]
I read a random post by an old friend on Facebook last night. She’s not a big blogger. But, her Facebook posts are always entertaining. So, when I saw that she had posted a blog. [...]
As I presented in my previous post Succession Planning vs. Exit Planning Which Do You Use?, the primary goal of any succession plan is leadership transfer. So, you can imagine that things can get a [...]
My wife paid me the highest compliment this week. And she didn't even realize she did it . We were on vacation and just browsing the shops on the beach. She saw the little card [...]
Often the terms succession planning and exit planning get used interchangeably. However, there is a definitive difference between the two. It’s important as a business owner that you understand the difference. Succession planning focuses on [...]
Business owners think about transition planning too late! Many don’t think about transition planning because they believe that they will just sell their business and that’s the end of it. However, even with the sale [...]
In the post “What Is a Self-Sustaining Business?” the correlation between the growth cycle and creating a self-sustaining business introduced. Here I’d like to share how to scale your business to make it self-sustaining! Achieving a self-sustaining [...]
A few weeks back in my article title Answering the Hard Questions About Leadership, I asked the question “what is the nature of leadership?” I received several dozen responses to the question via a variety [...]
In my post Why Leadership is Critical to Business Growth I mentioned my recent reading of James Hunter’s book The Servant. He makes some interesting statements in the book as he leads you toward what [...]
A few weeks ago in a presentation a local business leader whom I very much respect suggested a book that I had not heard of before on leadership – The Servant by James Hunter. So [...]
There are dozens of articles and blog posts written every day about what you need to really grow a business. Most tout the most obvious aspect – more money and financing; better marketing; added sales; [...]
