Want Breakthrough Growth? Do Less.

Huh? Most of us associate growth with big ideas, big schemes, and big transformations. That is not untrue. But the big transformations are more likely to be to the mindset of leadership than to the activities of the organization. It took me a while to figure it out, but scalable companies aren’t necessarily smarter or …

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What’s the Secret of Life?

This is dating me, but one of my favorite movie dialogues is from City Slickers: Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is? [points index finger skyward] This. Mitch: Your finger? Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that, and the rest don’t mean sh*t. Mitch: But, what is the “one …

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Do the Company’s Actions Match its Strategy?

Do the right- and left-hand work together? When was the last time you were a customer of your own business? Undercover Boss may not have really made it as a tv sensation and you may not even like the idea of “fooling” employees, but as leaders, don’t we have a responsibility to verify that what …

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Leadership from the Back

My friends and I just completed one of the most physically demanding horseback adventures we have ever done, which is saying a lot after participating in ten rides across the world in the last eight years. We were in the Parc Naturel Regional Morvan. It is like a national park in the Burgundy area of …

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What is the Difference?

Kids are going back to school, we are in the hot belly of late summer, and we are wrapping up summer vacations. On the business front, that means fall is around the corner. And with fall, the discussions about closing out this year strong and strengthening business performance next year begin. Like most things of …

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5 Leadership Lessons From Horseback

Every year since 2015 I have been blessed to take a trip with friends to ride horses somewhere around the world. I have completed ten rides on four continents. Since riding and leadership are both deep in my blood, It is always fascinating to me to extract the leadership lessons from each experience. And there …

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Mission Matters. Why does your organization exist?

As I drive through the city it strikes me how many businesses there are. There are buildings after buildings, each housing one or more businesses of every kind—health centers, nail shops, accounting firms, legal offices, and on and on. The landscape is full of buildings offering every kind of product and service. So much so, …

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Finding Quality Associates

One of the key challenges for many businesses today is finding help, especially quality associates. Everywhere you look there are help wanted signs and job fair posts. They are posted on doors to retail establishments, advertised in social media and splashed on billboards along with signing bonuses and starting pay. Many of the positions being …

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