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Do You Know Your Leadership Style?
As a consultant working with small to medium size businesses I see leaders violating the number one principle of leadership every day. What is the number one principle of leadership you ask? It is to know yourself and seek improvement. When meeting with the leaders of...
Proportion Your Aspirations to Your Organization’s Capability
The other day I was talking with a friend who had taken a new job with a small firm. He told me that the owners wanted to grow the company from $ 5 Million to $20 Million by 2020. My first thought as a strategic consultant was how many times have I heard, “ We are...
5 Traits of a Great Leader
Many years ago, I attended the Infantry Officers Basic Course at Fort Benning and began my journey of trying to understand leadership. While there, they taught me that Leadership is "the process of influencing people by providing purpose,...
Do Your Decision Makers Look Like Your Customer Base?
As Oxford searches for the word of the year, mine is Diverse. Why you ask? Well as we start to witness the transition from one President to another, the buzz is about how diverse the Cabinet will be. During this past summer of unrest, companies talked about supporting...
Creating a Business Operating System Can Take You to the Next Level
20% of small businesses fail in the first year, and 50% of small businesses fail after five years. Why you ask? Clearly there are several reasons why small businesses fail, but I believe the biggest reason they fail is most small businesses lack a Business...
Leadership and the Great Attrition
In 2021, we saw a record number workers quit their jobs, disrupting businesses everywhere. Organizations large and small are struggling to address the problem, and many will continue to struggle because they don’t understand why their employees are leaving in the...
The Power of the Pivot
This pandemic has wreaked havoc on the business community, especially the small to mid-size businesses (SMB). The statistics say that over 40 percent of SMB’s will close their doors, even the ones that read my first article and developed a Business Operating System....
Leadership in Uncertain Times
Management challenges don’t come any bigger than this. COVID-19 has impacted not just your business or industry; every major developed country in the world is either in a recession or suffering from a slowdown in growth. While we will not know when we will turn the...
