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"I will show people anything you want to do, do it. Don't listen to anyone. Chase your dreams.". That's advice from a guy who tried to run on water in the contraption pictured above from Florida to New York. But…

Hiring can be the most problematic part of running your business - but when done well the rewards of a good team are critical to success. Most job descriptions describe a person's position in the org chart (who they report…

I'm on a bit of a rant. But this is important. And I put it in the category of "Management" because as a manager, it's your job to devise and enforce communication standards in your company. Do this and it…

First let's define management. . MANAGEMENT is getting work done through other people. There are two parts to that - the work and the people. A great manager melds those two together to produce an amazing outcome. The work is…

Here is the lens through which I view companies. A company is an organization of people that performs a number of different functions designed to create and satisfy customers in a profitable way. Let's take that apart. A company is…

Here's a short post to let you know about this video I did called How to Think Like a CEO. . It's a webinar hosted by a couple of my clients - Jo Ann Koontz & Marina Parkin who run…

What Can You Control? On the road of business (and in life) there are things you can control and things you can't. I recently found out about Steve Jobs' approach to this dichotomy. When he promoted someone to VP, he…

Put a Careers link on your website. . This is one way you can get the word out when you're hiring. Putting ads out is nice but most jobs get filled by people who know people. The good ones aren't…

I have a client who needs a new CPA. . Part of the reason is technical. They are in a narrow niche of the construction industry but have a general purpose CPA. They need someone with the experience to answer…

Time Blocking is a useful technique when you find the urgent is overwhelming the important. It’s based on the concept that you give every hour of your work day a specific task. Here’s how to do it. Make a list…

The paradox is named after James Stockdale who was a POW in Vietnam for over seven years – much of it in solitary. What he found was that his fellow prisoners who broke mentally and ultimately died in prison were…

Uncertain future? That’s us. . We can’t extrapolate from other pandemics because with current medical technology and global transportation, this one is so different. We can’t look to other recessions because this one is caused by a health crisis not…

As bad as they are, we’ve dealt with recessions before. This is different. This is three kinds of crises that build on each other. A health crisis. There’s a war on and the virus is trying to kill us all.…

Here are some things to consider about our situation on a less tactical level. Getting up out of the weeds might be a relief to some. Scott Galloway ponders how we want to be remembered, years after the crisis, shares…

I have no idea how many parts this will have but I wanted to get this out quickly so I didn't take time to think up a better title. Part 1 is here. . Read this before 11 am EDT…

I wrote this a post about this yesterday and deleted it last night. It seemed too normal. Nothing about these times is normal. . Just like you, I’ve never been in this situation before. But here are some thoughts. Change…

One of the major tradeoffs in life is between the short term and the long term. Another way to think about it is the tradeoff between the urgent (usually short term) and the important (usually longer term). If we devote…

A manager gets work done through other people. This is impossible without delegating. But delegating is a skill that must be learned. There are three things to communicate in order to delegate well. I said communicate, not broadcast. That means…

What? These are one-on-one meetings that you have with each of your direct reports on a regular basis. . Why? These are not status updates - not about the work. They are more important (and less urgent) than that. The…

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