“If we can’t manage ourselves well as leaders, the odds of our business doing well aren’t good either,” says Ari Weinzweig, co-Founding Partner of Zingerman’s Community of Businesses in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Since...
Why do people follow? More importantly, why would people follow you? With the end of the first half of the year looming, if you haven’t asked yourself this question recently,...
Lisa Ridley did an amazing job at our 11th Annual Growth Strategies breakfast a week ago sharing her "Field Guide to Scaling Up" and giving our standing room only audience of CEO’s and their teams 5 critical things to consider and possibly implement as they look to grow their businesses successfully and stay “on plan” in 2017.
One of the simple yet most profound tools that I learned in my tenure at Procter and Gamble almost 30 years ago was the Start, Stop, Continue model. Or as I like to use it, the Continue, Stop and then Start model.
Why do businesses underperform? HINT: It’s not about having the right Strategy OR the right Plan. The secret, according to the study, lies in engagement and communication. And, even though the study was published almost a decade ago, the reality hasn’t changed very much, if at all.
It's Planning Season again... It's time to pull your team together and celebrate your accomplishments, talk about what you want to continue to do AND what you need to stop doing. (As Murray’s character discovered, you’ll keep stepping in the same pothole of ice-cold water if you don’t learn from your mistakes. :))
