July 2011

Prepare Your Business For Personal Crisis & Optimal Performance

July 31, 2011

(reprint of Dag Nybo’s column for the Austin Business Journal) Making money and delighting our clients while maintaining drive and motivation, difficult enough under normal conditions, becomes much more difficult if we add the impact of a personal or health crisis. And yet, many will have to do so, and those entrepreneurs who are prepared [...]

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Entrepreneurs Have Time To Reflect, Plan & Make Better Decisions

July 29, 2011

Entrepreneurs & Professionals always have time to slow down, plan and make better decisions. However, most of us prefer to live in a world of chaos, drama, and busyness? Why do I say that? Because the lack of control is comfortable, at times exciting and addicting. Some of this behavior is learned, some environmental, some [...]

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3 Strategies To Actively Retire From Your Business

July 27, 2011

Retirement is the point where a person stops employment completely – That Sounds awful, to be honest. Not to say there is not a point where we business owners and professionals may want to change direction or shift focus. The older notion of stopping completely and sitting on the beach, playing golf all day or [...]

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4 Ways to Succeed In Business On Your Terms

July 26, 2011

Absolutely not says Ray Silverstein in his piece from Entrepreneur.com and I couldn’t agree more. Great minds don’t mimic one another… they practice individuality and instinctively follow their talent. Another question may be, are there two great success stories in history that are similar to one another? Probably not… In most cases, they shared one [...]

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Tenacity & Generosity – Core Strategies

July 23, 2011

Great blog topics come from paying attention to friends, business owners, clients. Adeline Rem of Chocbite gets credit for providing the latest insight during a recent Business Owner Workshop. Most business owners share tidbits without even know it. Adeline has a fascinating personal and professional background. She has experienced both enormous financial success as well [...]

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The Right Amount of Trust In Your Work

July 17, 2011

The topic of Trust in life and work is wide and varied. I came across Vickie Champion’s piece Why Building Trust is Real Important for Business now and wanted to discuss Trust from a different perspective. I’m a big fan of Vickie and her work. The two types of owners and professionals that come to [...]

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Business Vision, Mission, Goals and Effective Action

July 13, 2011

Most Entrepreneurs and Business Owners act before they know their vision and it often results in misguided growth and poor performance. Their intention is good and is rooted in the notion that if you do a lot, get busy and move fast, your business will thrive. This is false. There is a better way. Bruce [...]

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Business Accountability – Necessary or a Buzzword?

July 11, 2011

My colleagues and fellow Austin Growth Coach’s Dean Bogues, Scott Merritt and I often talk about Accountability. Just how important is Accountability to the work we do with our clients? It’s a biggie. And not because accountability specifically means “conformity” or “behaving appropriately”…. The thought of being a well behaved professional isn’t a consistent motivator [...]

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Business Overwhelm Does Not Go Away By Itself

July 10, 2011

If this is the case, then why do so many of us continue to live in business and personal overwhelm and hope that things will somehow work out? That reminds me of the true definition of insanity, “Doing the same the over and over and hoping for different results”. Kaya Singer wrote about this in [...]

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Job Matching Programs Lead To Some of the Best Hires Possible

July 10, 2011

(reprint of Dag Nybo’s column for the Austin Business Journal) To successfully hire a new employee or promote a current one requires a great amount of experience and even more luck. After spending 15 years hiring at three different companies, I have had my share of successes and failures. One of my worst hires, whom [...]