Knowing that my company’s purpose is all about ‘empowerment’ allows me to make clear decisions about what actions to take, both reactively and proactively. My coaching, consulting, content creation, mastermind group formation, marketing activities are filtered by the test of ‘Does it further the goal of empowerment?’ One of the most important things that an [...]

What is a culture of connection and what does it do for the profitability of a company? In your industry who is eating who for lunch? (yes you’ll understand what I mean if you read through the article.) Years ago when I had my IT company we received a $1,000,000 RFP. It was a bigger [...]

I was rereading the book “Good to Great” by Jim Collins the other day and it occurred to me that with all the talk about sustainability in business we should revisit some of those basic concepts covered in that book. The chapter on Fifth Level Leaders really hits home with what it takes to create [...]

I am a member of the Institute for Sustainability.  This is a national organization made up of coaches, consultants and management advisers that are planning for what their clients will be needing in the area of sustainability. What is sustainability? Many people think it’s just about greening your business. But if you focus on just [...]

They say what you don’t know won’t hurt you, but nothing could be further from the truth when you run a small business. If you operate based on “gut instinct,” or you make assumptions on how your business is performing without knowing the facts, you can run into problems quickly. Fortunately, there is a simple [...]

We’ve seen plenty of layoffs in the last few months and we feel for people who have lost their jobs, have very little with which to support their families and are perhaps in danger of losing their homes. Much less has been said about those who didn’t get laid off. There are things affecting them, [...]

Are you waiting for a stimulus package that will really have an effect on your small business? Maybe it will come and maybe it will touch you. Maybe you’ll be out of business by then. You can’t control a lot of what happens in the macro-economic world, but you can control what happens in your [...]

I’m looking forward to achieving new goals with fresh energy. This is a time for new beginnings and creative thinking. When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. –Chinese proverb. The picture above is an acroyoga (acrobatics and yoga) pose and was taken by Tyler Blank, a good friend [...]

People have been saying this for a couple of months and I was at a business holiday party this week where this was the theme. Some people say it’s silly, but is it really? So what does it actually mean? Sure we recognize that The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has confirmed that the nation has [...]

Do you ever feel like you’re having a lackluster day? Or maybe a lot of days are feeling that way lately. Are you blaming the economy because you’re not motivated to do anything but procrastinate? Do you go through the motions of your day and do the required actions and wonder why your heart’s not [...]