I used to read business books voraciously. Peter Drucker, Jim Collins, David Maister, Patrick Lencioni, I loved reading and learning from these business giants. They taught me so much! But, after a while, my desperation to voraciously consume business books started to wane. As I look back on it, I was so voracious because I…
In the recent ESPN documentary of Michael Jordan’s last year as a Bull, there’s an incredible quote that I’ve watched almost every day since I’ve seen it. Michael was asked, “Has it [your success] come at the expense of you being perceived as a nice guy?” You should watch the video all the way to…
With cities starting to re-open after the COVID pause business owners are asking the question, should I re-open my office? If you are thinking about re-opening your office, you’d better have a good reason! Your company has spent the last two months working at home, and there’s a number of them who are liking it….
It’s 3 AM; you’re wide awake, unable to go back to sleep. What’s on your mind? When I’m awake at 3 AM unable to go back to sleep, my fears are running away with me. I’ve done something terribly wrong, I’ve miscalculated my expenses, my clients are never going to pay me again, I’m defaulting…
I’ll be honest with you; for about a year, I told myself that I was going to do video. I think we’re at the point where we all realize video is something that you need to have as part of your marketing mix. It’s not optional anymore. It’s not that I wasn’t committed to it….
“When are you going to stop treating your body like a rental car?” When my coach said that to me a few years ago, it stopped me dead in my tracks. “What do you mean, treat my body like a rental car?” “You only have one body, Brad. You can’t just turn it in at…
I was onboarding a new client, she was telling me about some challenges she faced running her branding firm when she said, “I don’t do numbers.” “Excuse me? What was that?” I asked. “I don’t do numbers. I’m more of an art person; math, and numbers aren’t my thing.” “I see. You don’t do any…
I’m starting an occasional series where I talk about some of the lies I hear from the business owners that I speak to. They don’t always know that they are lying to me, but over time, I’ve come to hear these phrases as lies. Today we start with this one, “Sure, I’m a workaholic. I…
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with others. When your business was young, and you just had a small team, you needed to “move fast and break things.” Your ability to get things done, your energy, and hard work was what enabled your success. But your…
One of the questions I ask clients when we’re talking about making plans for important initiatives in their business is: If this initiative fails, who gets yelled at? Who loses their job if you don’t make progress on this? It might be a negative way to think about it. But I’ve found that if there…