Leadership Effectiveness and Efficiency

Exit Strategies for Businesses

Dead Mice, My Garage, and Your Business: Things that Should be Cleaned up 

I recently cleaned and organized a corner of my garage. The level of pride and satisfaction that this generates is…

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Executive Succession

The Truth Will Set You Free. But Before it Will, You Have to do This

The truth will set you free. But you have to accept it first. The best leaders look reality straight in…

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Advance Planning

How to Get an Extra 20% in Performance with No New Staff, Customers, or Tools

Have you ever pulled a garden hose around your house to find it doesn’t reach as far as you thought?…

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Why DEI and ESG aren’t Worth the Attention Paid to Them

In elementary school, I learned to be nice to others. Name-calling and bullying weren’t allowed. We were expected to include…

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Why I Care About Leadership

Leadership Motivation When I was young, I had ideas about changing the world. So, I set out to do that….

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Why a Vacation is One of the Most Responsible Actions a Leader Can Take

“Take a vacation.” This is my favorite advice to give to the owners or executives who are my clients. They…

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Planned Succession Outline

How to Plan for Executive Succession In the United States, approximately 60% of all organizations are headed up by Baby…

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Two Leadership Maxims that Should Change Your Leadership Forever

Two leadership maxims that will transform how you lead and manage: You will only manage others as well as you…

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A Leadership Self-Assessment: A Simple Tool that Reveals All

“Am I good leader?”  How to evaluate yourself and answer the question. Here are two maxims that – if you…

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Four BEST Recovery Tips from Pro-Athletes and High-Performing Leaders

Want better results? Put in more effort. Well, is that how things actually work? Consider athletes. Your average athlete would…

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