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Tuesday Happens (A Quick Hit)
Over the weekend you made a decision. Maybe it was a solution to a problem. Something you think will work. Or something you’re dead solid certain will work. Or maybe you spotted an opportunity you plan to exploit. You can see it working.
What Are You Chasing In Your Small Business? Part 3 #4065
In episode 4063, part 1 of this little series, we talked about pursuing confidence. Then in part 2, episode 4064, we talked about chasing delusions. Today, I want to wrap up this series with a conversation about chasing the things that will propel you ...
What Are You Chasing In Your Small Business? Part 2 #4064
Business owners can pursue whatever they’d like. Sometimes our businesses are the outgrowth of a pursuit. Maybe it’s fortune. Or fame. Or freedom. Or flexibility. Lots of F things to pursue. But it could be most anything.
What Are You Chasing In Your Small Business? Part 1 #4063
Let me give you some context. As small business owners we’re constantly chasing some things. What we chase may differ depending on where we are in our business at the time. What we chased last year may not be exactly what we chased last year.
Small Business, Big Impact #4062
According to the U.S. Small Business Administration small business is BIG. Here’s what their website says: The 28 million small businesses in America account for 54% of all U.S. sales. Small businesses provide 55% of all jobs and 66% of all net new job...
A Client Phone Conversation About Selling, Manipulation & The Importance Of A Customer Base #4061
It was a 90 minute conversation where I asked to record my side of the conversation for possible publication. The reason? We were discussing sales philosophy and how that might impact strategy, execution and building a business to reach higher levels o...
National Small Business Week: Why Small Business Matters #4060
We’re smack dab in the middle of it. National Small Business Week. Sure, it’s a PR move to draw attention to an important community that fuels a big chuck of the economy. This event started in 1963 when the business landscape looked very different.
Bula! Life Is Good (Why Optimism Is Your Best Choice) #4059
Over 30 years ago I ran across the term – Bula. I don’t remember where. I do remember instant fondness for the term because it carried the connotation that “life is good.” How can you not like that? I was so smitten with the term that I began to use it...
Effort & Speed: 2 Things You Can Control (A Grow Great Quick Hit)
I don’t care who the President of the U.S. is. I don’t care what the weather is like either. I don’t even care what the economy is doing. You shouldn’t care either because none of those things (and many more) have no impact on the two things you contro...
How To Establish Your Leadership Legacy By Influencing What Your People Say Most About You #4057
The fast path to the truth is your employees. It’s something that every business owner must understand. Leaders who don’t roam around their company are wasting their most valuable asset – people. Grow Great is all about higher human performance.