“How can I love my medium long enough to create a masterpiece?” ~ Tom Chi If what you are doing is a slog, it’s unlikely you will get very good at it. The process of getting good at something, anything, involves a lot of practice. Much of that practice feels monotonous, even pointless. But then,…
I have a love-hate relationship with my calendar. When my calendar works well, it tells me where I should be and what I should be doing. Unfortunately, I’m terrible at filling in calendar appointments correctly. I’m always setting them up for AM when they should be PM or putting them on the wrong day or…
Your creative agency is stuck. Sales aren’t growing. It’s tough in an unpredictable world. Which is why you need to employ these growth strategies for professional services firms.
You need a strategy to grow your business. You’re considering hiring a manager. Wrong! Choose to delegate and elevate instead.
Business owner burnout. Are you suffering from it? Learn about the causes, symptoms, and how to relieve the burnout that will damage you and your business.
As a creative agency owner, you get busy, right? I mean, it goes with the territory, doesn’t it? But if you don’t learn how to get out of your own way, your business will never grow, and you’ll always be too busy.
So tomorrow is Mother’s Day in the US. (If you haven’t gotten anything, there’s still time!) If you are a mom, have a great day tomorrow. Owning a business while caring for little humans is…a lot. God bless you! I have a coach friend who would draw a lot of the advice she’d offer her…
“In most organizations, the bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.” ~ Peter Drucker What would happen if your business volume doubled? What if you had twice as many clients?Twice as many projects?Twice as many invoices?Twice as many employees? Does this sound like a dream come true, or a nightmare? I had a coach who…
When I was 13, my best friend and I were nuts about Star Wars. We were determined to be at the very first screening of the sequel Empire Strikes Back at the big 70mm Dolby Equipped theater in nearby Cupertino. We arrived at the theater 4 hours before the first show to get in line…
Celebrating our 20th anniversary has caused me to look back on the journey of getting here. One thing that happens in that process is that I see all the places where I stumbled, things I had wrong, and choices I wish I’d made differently. Hoping that this experience can at least provide an example that…