Every December, we sit down with our spreadsheets and fresh notebooks, feeling a mix of exhaustion and hope. “Next year will be different,” we tell ourselves. Next year we’ll be aligned. No more weekends. The team will step up. We map out revenue targets and key initiatives. It feels good. It feels like control. But here…
Sometimes a client will come to a call with an excited, nervous energy, tinged with fear and dread. They’ll say something like, “I have this idea, but it feels a little crazy,” or “Is it too much to think about this right now?” They’re sitting on a big dream—something that seems too good to be…
On Tuesday, we talked about making work more fun by eliminating work that you don’t enjoy. On Thursday, we talked about how my happiest clients are the ones who have systematically moved routine work and client work off of their plates to free up time to think, plan, and move their businesses forward. Does this…
Every Friday, I step back and look at all of my active clients and ask myself the question, “How’s it going with this client? How can I serve them this week?” As I was doing this last week, I noticed a trend, and it surprised me! The clients that are the happiest with their work,…
Summer is typically a time when business slows down a bit. Sure, June is usually solid, but July may feel a little slow before things just come to a standstill in August as all the decision-makers are on vacation! Will 2021 be any different? There are a lot of reasons to think that 2021 will…
“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…
I’m great at starting things. I love going through a strategic planning exercise and seeing the possibilities in the future. Identifying new things that offer great promise. It took me years to recognize that I’m bad at stopping things, at giving up and killing things off. So year after year I’d start new things, while…
We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~ Japanese Proverb Spring has sprung in the Northern Hemisphere! Flowers are blooming, and businesses are starting to think about a “post-COVID” era. Are you feeling the need to make some changes in your business to accommodate this new season? Have your…
“A man must shape himself to a new mark directly [once] the old one goes into the ground.” ~Ernest Shackleton I love the story of Ernest Shackleton. An Antarctic explorer who never made it to the South Pole. He returned from a failed quest only to see someone else make it to the pole 3…
So, we’ve been through some things the last year or so, right? I had a boss once who told us, “Never let a good crisis go to waste!” He knew that there are always opportunities in a crisis. We’ve been navigating a priceless crisis the last year or so! Do we have some room to…