Goals & Vision

How to document your 3 year vision for your company.

Even though you think you can. I know it’s not a great idea to tell your audience that they’re wrong. But in my experience of working with hundreds of SMB owners it’s true. We aren’t really working on our companies…

A presentation I made to Sagan Passport about the best metrics for a company.

Why? Because they make a manager's job harder. These are not magic words that you can sprinkle over your company to get amazing results - despite what some consultants will try to tell sell you. These are words that if…

Crafting mission, vision, and values statements are very lucrative - especially for the consultants who run these sessions. But do you need them? Like most things in life, it depends. In this video you'll learn what each of those things…

"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…

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…

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…

It’s critical that a company have a mission. Having a mission STATEMENT? Not so much. A mission is the reason that a company exists. It doesn’t have to be worthy of a nobel prize. “We make the best damn pizza…

And why that's a good thing! Just like a bicycle built for one doesn't usually grow into a bicycle built for two, there is not a linear continuum from small company to big company like there is from little kid…