Use Plans to Focus Yourself, Not Test Yourself
Planning out your week can help you navigate life gracefully — but overplanning your day-to-day tasks can make you neurotic and stressed. The best way to reap the benefits of …
Tighten Up Your Sales Pitch
When preparing a sales pitch, you may be inclined to continually add elements to entice the customer. This can result in a cluttered, unfocused pitch, and prospective buyers may feel …
What Does Free Really Cost?
An educational group unveiled a proposal to provide free preschool for every child in the United States. The cost of the program is $200 billion initially and then $20 billion …
Draw a Picture of Your Business Model
Growing companies face a predictable problem: Over time, the business becomes too complex for its own good. To untangle this complexity, forget over-engineered PowerPoint presentations or lengthy reports. Turn to …
Maintain Your Entrepreneurial Passion by Being Flexible
Most of us think of entrepreneurs as passionate professionals who have a “fire in their belly.” But it’s hard to maintain that level of dedication no matter how passionate you are, and …
Come Back From Vacation The Right Way
Many things await you on your first day back from vacation: a full inbox, a long list of to-dos, and people needing your time. If you dive right in, you’re …
Using Sprint Goals
It has long been accepted that to succeed you need a big, audacious goal (sometimes referred to as a big, hairy, audacious goal). Those massive goals take time and effort …
Mindset Is Not About Denial
Recently a member of a LinkedIn Group asked a question about how they could attract customers to their establishment on traditionally slow days. I found one answer to be very …
How You Should Negotiate New Assignments
Welcome to the gig economy. More and more people are working for themselves for multiple companies. The trend is accelerating to the point that most believe it will become the …
Watching For Unintended Consequences
Every action has consequences. There are the intended consequences, which are what you want to happen, and the unintended consequences, which may or may not be beneficial. For example, word …