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Leading a Growing Business
Leading a growing business is an incredible opportunity! For the small business owner, it means you did it! It’s also challenging as what got you to this level may not work at the next level. That’s why so many small businesses fail at this juncture. Marshall...
Five Tips for Building a Leadership Team
Building a leadership team isn’t even a concern until your business succeeds and grows. Early on, your business may just be you and a great idea. And as you grow, you begin to surround yourself with helpers—the people who allow you to get more things done. But there...
Building an Accountability Mindset
Building an accountability mindset is foundational for the business owner. Sure, you can go out and be your boss. That’s easy. However, getting the right things done to grow your business requires accountability. And it’s one thing to hold your people accountable....
Three Responsibilities of Leadership
The responsibilities of leadership aren’t always the first thing we think about as we grow our business. For the small business owner, it can even sneak up on them. They start small, then surround themselves with helpers with whom he interacts daily. With success...
What Does it Take to Be a Leader?
“What does it take to be a leader?” That is how the conversation begins. There is an idea that we have “born leaders” floating around out there. What’s worse, we identify people as born leaders for the worst reasons: strong independent contributors, pedigree,...
Three Tips for Making Tough Decisions
Tough decisions are part of leadership. And as a leader, you will make more of them than you could ever imagine from the outside looking in. And what defines a tough decision varies from leader to leader. I had a nasty tendency to let them weigh on me. Sometimes I...
The Grind Quit Working, Now What?
The Grind is one of the more romantic business notions. And there is a belief out there that it never ends. And that’s simply not true. For owners of growing businesses, there is a time to grind and a time to lead. And knowing when to make that shift is crucial for...
Ten Rules for Better Meetings
The phrase “Death by Meeting” didn’t come out of nowhere. Better meetings start with better meeting rules. Today’s post will cover ten meeting rules that will make yoru leadership team meetings more focused and valuable with better outcomes to move your business...
How to Delegate Effectively
When leaders do not know how to delegate effectively they will struggle to move their organization forward. Why? Leadership is about vision, responsibility, and accountability, not productivity. It’s a difficult transition when highly productive individual...
What it Takes to Be a Leader
Do you have what it takes to be a leader? That question haunted me as I grew into leadership roles. And if you ask that question too, you are not alone. It’s the nagging question you hear in the middle of the night when you start second-guessing yourself. This post...