The skills necessary for leadership in a start-up phase versus a growth phase differs significantly. If you’re in the growth stage and wonder why you have more turnover than you did in the start up phase, you may be primarily apply a visionary entrepreneur leadership style that is no longer working.
In the start-up phase, the primary goal is to establish a strong foundation and create a viable business model. This often looks like lofty goals, long hours, and the go-to person for decision
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Using Leverage for Next-Level Business Growth
Have you ever asked yourself, “How can I get my business to the next level?”
To answer that question, many people believe that they need a big budget or should purchase expensive equipment. This may not necessarily be the case.
The truth is for many businesses you don’t need a bigger budget. You may not even need to purchase expensive equipment or hire more employees to expand your company.
What you do need is to explore how a profitable business is leveraged. It’s one of the key areas
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Meeting Your Competing Commitments With Grace and Ease
Meeting your competing commitments with grace and ease, can occur impossible. Ask anyone how they are doing. What is the typical answer?
I'm so busy. Followed by I got a lot going on.
We all have full lives that can, at times, collide:
⋙ Leading Your Business or Career
⋙ Managing Your To Do List
⋙ Attending Family Events
⋙ Working Out Consistently
So, how do you meet competing commitments without losing your mind?
Systems thinking. Systems thinking is a holistic approach that
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Surrender: A Meaningful Way to Scale
In a conversation with a fellow business owner who leads a recruiting agency, she mentioned that many of her clients are running around in many directions and that if they took time out to focus on their business rather in their business, they would often see the solutions to their most pressing problems.
It reminded me of one of my quotes, "When you stop to take a break, watch as you attract new things into your life. The new thing was just waiting for you to stop long enough to
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6 Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Company’s Culture
Imagine you walk up to a hostess stand at a restaurant, she looks at you, and you notice that she’s on the phone. You wait. She gets off the phone and continues to look down at the computer. You stand there looking around waiting patiently for her to look up again to let her know you have a reservation.
She gives you no motion to let you know she will be with you in a minute and no eye contact after her call was concluded. You stand there waiting for her or someone else to acknowledge your
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