All world-class athletes have an experienced coach to pull the very best performance from them – game in, game out. Their coach gives them an edge to prepare better, plan smarter, and execute more powerfully. What’s not as well known is that top business owners often also have a coach, in their case a “business…
Cheryl, a business coaching client, ran a $1.5 million per year glass company. She worked hard, typically 70 hours a week, and she was scared to death to empower her team to “own” functions and responsibilities within the business. “David,” she said, “I’ve tried that before. I delegated to my team and asked them to…
Controls are the intelligent processes, procedures, and safeguards that protect your company from uninformed or inappropriate decisions or actions by any team member. When you build a business versus a job, you want your team to have the authority to get tasks done without running everything past you. You need them to exercise their judgment…
Finally a simple, no-nonsense, concrete template to build the culture you want and reduce your company’s reliance on you.
How do you consistently get your company to invest its time, talent, attention, and money on the right things in the face of so many demands and urgencies crying out for its resources? You lean heavily on the strategic structure you’ve built for your company. At its most basic form, your strategic structure is how…
What if there was a magic concept that you could employ that would powerfully align your goals, priorities, actions, and company culture? In other words, your company would invest its best resources in alignment with its top goals. And each of your team members would act daily in accordance with these priorities, letting them guide…
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