Sep
7

Entrepreneurial Exit Strategies

With the fun and lazy Labor Day holiday behind us, we begin to look at life goals. What would it take for everyday to be a Labor Day holiday? What do I need to do to be able to go boating out on the lake with family, or travel, or do nothing all day if I wanted? Let’s project months, or years down the road into the future and start looking at exit strategies. I suppose one of the first things you need to have is a goal to exit.  […]

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Sep
1

Hiring in a Tight Market

I have become increasingly aware of how difficult it has become to hire the right person in a market where unemployment is seeing record lows.  Jim Collins, best selling author of Good to Great, admonishes getting the “right people on the bus”. People that buy off on the vision and direction of the bus.  Once on the bus, one must make sure that they are all in the “right seat”, but most importantly is getting the right people. So the real dilemma becomes finding the “right people” in a market […]

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Aug
27

Creating Raving Fans

A recent book that I was introduced to, and readily would recommend to any person, but especially business owners is Raving Fans: a Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service.  This book written by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles is a fantastic read for anyone looking to truly transform their business into a customer-oriented enterprise. I don’t want to give too much away, but the basic premise of the book talks about deciding what it is you want, discovering what the customers want, and finally delivering results plus 1 (or overdelivering).  What I […]

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Aug
23

The Power of an Offsite Retreat

I recently attended an offsite retreat at a cabin up in the mountains.  It was a brisk morning with some fantastic trainings, and great insights from a management training book. I was really impressed because of the mental shift the entire group mase over the course of one morning, and it led me to anaylze why this might have been the case? Sometimes when you introduce a new concept or are rolling out a new philosophy, a change in mindset, or looking to set the proverbial bar higher, it is […]

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