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Making Partnerships Work
One of the most difficult entrepreneurial feats is getting partnerships to work. Everyone wants to start a business with a partner, but no one wants to stay in the partnership.
read moreThe Problem With Partnerships
Why are partnerships so challenging? How should a business owner or organizational leader make the decision as to whether they team up, or go it alone?
read moreLeading When Your Business Is On Cash Flow Fumes
Every business owner has faced a period of time when the bills are coming in faster than the checks. Worse are those times when the cash is rapidly running out.
read moreWhen Should Leaders Just Do It?
Each day entrepreneurs face a plethora of decisions to make. There are plenty of marketing campaigns encouraging these business owners to “Just Do It”. But, when should we?
read moreLeading Across The Generation Gap
Struggling with the Millennials in your business? Or maybe you're a Millennial who is challenged with leading a Gen X'er or a Baby Boomer. Although no one wants to be labeled, there are broad patterns of behavioral variations across generations. As a leader, it's...
read moreHow To Ride The Leadership Roller Coaster Without Screaming
Anyone who has ever tried their hand at being a leader or entrepreneur knows the journey can aptly be described as being on a roller coaster. There are unbelievable highs. There are frightening lows. And there is often both fear and exhilaration. The reality is,...
read moreOne Word That Will Set Leaders Free
There is a mindset that is holding leaders back more than just about anything else. Not only will this constrain your effectiveness in leading your team, but it will send you down a daily road to disappointment and depression. Could there be one word that will free...
read moreHow Leaders Can Keep From Burning Out
Burn out. Depression. All too often, these are the real experiences of business owners as they face a sense of being trapping in a cage of their own making. If an entrepreneur loses their sense of vision, their feeling of hope, they will find themselves rapidly on a...
read moreHow Leaders Can Treat Their Team Like Family
It's been a business objective for companies to have their employees feel like they are part of their corporate family. Yet, so many organizations fall short in this area because their efforts are often perceived as forced and contrived by their staff. Too few...
read moreHow Leaders Can Tame The Hounds Of Bill Collection
If you've been in business for any length of time, you probably have had to face the hounds of bill collection at some point in your career. It's one of the lowlights in the entrepreneur's film reel, but it's also one of the moments that will define them as a leader....
read moreTeaching Your Team The Perspective Of The Client
As leaders and entrepreneurs, we get it. If we don't clearly understand the needs and wants of our clients, we won't be in business for very long. Yet, this isn't always as obvious to our employees who many times are only able to see things from their own perspective....
read moreLeading Your Team Through An Impossible Task
Leaders and entrepreneurs are uniquely adept at doing the impossible. It's how we're designed. Yet, the real challenge is leading our team through an impossible task. How do we accomplish critical, and extremely difficult assignments, without burning out our entire...
read moreHow Leaders Survive Losing Their Best Person
Many times, it's the worst thing that can happen to a leader. First, there is a knock on the door, followed by, "Boss, you've got a minute?" Having your best person letting you know they are leaving the company can ruin any business owner's day, and in many cases can...
read moreWelcoming Input From Your Team Without Being Wishy Washy
Maybe you hear this too often from your team: "You never listen to what we have to say." No. You don't want to be that type of leader. Because, you'll only chase away the sharpest, most creative minds. At the same time, you can't take in everyone's ideas, all of the...
read moreLeading With Knots In Your Stomach
If you're going to be a leader. If you're going to be an entrepreneur. Then you're going to end up with knots in your stomach. By nature, leaders are always pushing things to the limit, and demanding the most out of themselves and their teams. Yet, this doesn't mean...
read moreThe Leadership Art Of Finishing Well
Anyone can start. Be a finisher. This is a powerful statement for leaders and entrepreneurs. But it's one many struggle with in a mighty way. Coming up with an idea on a cocktail napkin is the fun part of starting a business or new venture. Yet, it's the ability to...
read moreLeadership Techniques For Herding Butterflies
Entrepreneurs and leaders are among the most innovative people in the world. Yet, this same extraordinary creative skill can prove to be a great weakness as well, as chasing butterflies can be a distraction to achieving their most business critical goals. Join Michael...
read moreThe Single Most Powerful Way To Motivate Your Team
In this challenging environment, providing competitive salary and benefits is essential to building a great team. But, did you know there is a motivator that your employees crave above all others? Study after study shows this critical role in your leadership...
read moreLeading When You’re Overwhelmed
Every leader gets overwhelmed. In fact, the ability to deal competently in the face of overlapping priorities is one of the most critical success factors of a leader. Yet, it's also one of the most unpleasant tasks and the cause of tremendous stress, and oftentimes...
read moreLeading When Nobody Likes You
No one wants to work for an intolerable grump. And the truth is, few will. Yet, even the kindest, most beloved of leaders find themselves in a position at times when they must make difficult and unpopular directional shifts. In fact, if you aren't being disliked on...
read moreThe Productivity Boosting Secret Of Clutch TIme
Could your company benefit from a dramatic boost in productivity? Would you like to increase your own ability to make the most of each and every day? If so, listen in as Michael and Jim share the productivity boosting concept of "Clutch Time", which is a lesson...
read moreHow To Love Your Business Again
Every business launches with great expectations. Yet, oftentimes it doesn't take long for the daily grind, extraordinary pressures and recurring disappointments of leading a venture to take its toll on even the hardiest of entrepreneurs. Are you finding yourself a...
read moreHow To Start A Life-Changing Leadership Peer Group
When you lead alone, you greatly reduce your odds of being successful as a leader. Even leaders are safer and stronger travelling in packs. This is especially true if they share their unique journey with other like minded, high responsibility bearing professionals....
read moreAm I The Only One Here Who Cares?
As a leader, how many times have you asked yourself this question: "Am I the only one here who cares?" If you're like most business leaders or entrepreneurs, this is a question posed often. But, is it healthy for us to be in this mindset? Will it destroy our team and...
read moreWhen To Let Them Go
Recruiting and developing strong people is the most critical and challenging job for most leaders. Equally difficult is the task of knowing when to let those employees go who don't seem to be fully embracing the opportunity you're providing for them. It's not that...
read moreWhat Every Leader Should Know About Integrity
Nearly all leaders use the word integrity when describing themselves or their principles of business on resumes and websites all throughout the world. But how many of them truly understand what the word means and if they or their organization are really measuring up?...
read moreHow Leaders Gain Victory Over Debt
Debt is something every leader will face somewhere along their journey. Most entrepreneurs need capital to get their ideas off of the ground. But, this initial desire to finance a new idea, expanded service or company growth can often snowball rapidly into an...
read moreThe Most Important Reality Check For Leaders
This may surprise you, but the top challenges a leader faces are frequently ones they don't even know exist. Too often, the Emperor Has No Clothes; yet, there is no one with the guts to let him or her know. If you are brave enough to listen to what is revealed here,...
read moreLeadership And The Forgotten Family
It's a good business practice to seek feedback from your customers and employees. Yet, as leaders, are we brave enough to survey our family with the open ended question of "How am I doing?" as a husband, wife, father or mother? For most of us pouring our time and...
read moreHow Leaders Can Free Themselves From Worry
As a leader, have you ever found yourself staring up at the ceiling with your heart pounding at 2:30 in the morning? You're desperate to get some sleep, but all you can do is worry. And then you worry about worrying. Worry can be a crippling disease for leaders, and...
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