Last week I asked a friend of mine about his business. He told me that he’d had a pretty good year so far but felt frustrated. For the third year in a row, he’s falling short of his annual goals but feels complacent since he’s still doing okay financially.  That complacency has led to him [...]

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 [...]

Four Frequent Business Problems Expressed by Many Small Business Owners that Business Coaches Help You Address As you’re reading through the following problems, think about how help with strategy, tactics, accountability and results could mitigate these problems. The ‘I Don’t Know What I Don’t Know’ Problem The ‘I Don’t Know Where to Start’ Problem The [...]

I talk with business owners and professional people all the time. I’m a great networker and meet people throughout New York at their offices, at networking events, and at the professional club where I’m a member. I see that people are at certain points in their business or career choices and they fall into one [...]

Here we are at the beginning of August in the home stretch of 2010. I’m sure you started out the year with some goals. Are you on track to achieve them? Perhaps you’re more than 7/12’s of the way to your goals. If so, congratulations. Maybe you’ve surpassed your goals. You’re having a great year. [...]

Have you ever watch somebody dancing on the stage or on TV? If it’s done well, the movements flow easily into each other. Each movement is performed with maximum energy, maximum stretch, maximum power, maximum concentration. Each segment leads to another which builds on the one before. There’s economy of movement meaning that there are [...]

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 [...]

On May 20 I had the extreme pleasure of having lunch with Michael Gerber. I also attended his evening presentation and a pre-event phone conference call. He said many things and here is a summary for those of you who missed him. Much of what he spoke about is covered in his new book. Enjoy [...]