Are You Working On Your Business Or In Your Business?

Are You Working On Your Business Or In Your Business?

This month I’m going to talk about the CEO’s role as that of the Visionary. I had a client a couple of years ago who wanted to grow his business.  As we talked about how he envisioned his company growing and what size he was thinking about we started talking about how...
Where Are You Going? What Are You Doing?

Where Are You Going? What Are You Doing?

We’re half way through 2013?  Have you reviewed your strategy and updated your plan?  Do you know where you are and what you need to do to get to where you want to be? 2013 has had a topsy turvey beginning.  What’s happened that’s taken your business by surprise?...
Are You On The Path To Health Or To … ?

Are You On The Path To Health Or To … ?

Is your company on the path to health, which means it has high employee retention of exceptional employees, raving customers that continue to come back for more and increased profits? Or maybe profits are up slightly, but your top notch employees are job hunting and...
I Don’t Have Time To Plan

I Don’t Have Time To Plan

Can’t you see that I’m busy?  I have meetings to attend, calls to make, people to meet, fires to put out.  And you want me to sit down and think about what I’m trying to create, where I’m trying to take this organization? Planning is to leaders what studying is to...
Whose Team Are You On?

Whose Team Are You On?

As a leader you have a team, a very important team.  This is the team that leads the company forward.  They are also leaders of other teams. The question you need to ask them is, “whose team are you on?” Are they focused on the team they are leading or are they...