5 Things Small Businesses Should Do To Last More Than 5 Years
“We cannot predict the future. But we can create it.” – Jim Collins Every Fortune 500 firm today started in some shape or form as a small business – an idea in the mind of an entrepreneur. It’s no wonder that small businesses are the lifeblood of US commerce yet many do not survive, especially […]
Becoming a Good to Great Nonprofit
In the past five years, the need for nonprofit services has exploded. While for-profit businesses struggled with decreased revenues and downsizing during the Great Recession, the nonprofit sector continued to grow, and actually thrived during this period [...]
A New Year, A New Opportunity To Become a Great Company
We cannot predict the future. But we can create it. Jim Collins As we begin a new year, of course it's important to capitalize on external opportunities for enhancing bottomline results and profitability for our businesses in today's improving economy [...]
5 Tips To Becoming An Innovative Company in 2015
Today, many businesses suffer poor results because they do not have innovation strategies or will not seek out opportunities to become an innovative company. Great business leaders understand -- and history has proven -- that [...]
Leadership Training is the Hallmark of Excellent Leaders
Introduction Several factors set excellent leaders apart from the pack. One key contributor is they are more willing and able to learn or pursue a habit of life-long learning. Research has proven that these top [...]
Keys to Achieving a Successful Executive Coaching Program
With the globalization of business and today's workforce becoming more transparent and mobile, it should come as no surprise that 70 to 80 percent of major companies today are using executive coaches. No longer viewed [...]
A Vision Helps Companies Focus, Even in a Constantly Changing World
They say hindsight is “20-20”. Here are several key strategies if you are starting a business or have an established one that I have learned from experience in working with great organizations. Either way, you [...]
Maintain Focus on Your Business Strategy
Consistency Proves Successful Over Decades We are always prone to think that the economy or outside external forces are the major cause of a company’s success or demise. But history has proven otherwise. Success or [...]
Replace systems of coercion and control with self-motivated employees.
Many companies today still manage employees based on our primal instincts to control, coerce and dictate employee behavior at the workplace. After all, they are on company time and the company is paying them. If [...]
