Strategy

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…

Why war is a bad metaphor for business. Business has often been described as war, but I think that's a poor metaphor. For one thing the point is not to win, as I said in a recent twitter post. Photo…

Your vision is tied to outputs. Here's how. Your vision is literally what you see. Your vision for your company is what you see that's possible. What your company can do or become that it hasn't yet. How your company…

Output Thinking to transform your business. My book is now available on amazon. I’m posting some video interviews my friend Jon Matzner did with me about the book. Besides being a great guy, Jon thinks about business systems as much…

Just answer three questions. Strategy answers "Where are we going?" A Plan answers "How are we going to get there?" As the saying goes - if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there. But the…

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…