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September 15, 2024

How Your Hiring Strategies Change

What got you here—in terms of your approach to staffing—won’t get you there. There are some staffing strategies that are absolutely the right choice in the early days, but they […]

Management, Managing People, Roles

May 19, 2024

Developing a Compensation Framework

Decisions that involve emotion and have long-term implications are tricky, and what you pay any individual at your firm qualifies on both counts: tricky and long-term. My suggestion is to […]

Benchmarking, Management, Managing People

May 5, 2024

Be Gracious When Employees Leave

I’d have to say that most leaders are pretty good at this, but even so they fight down some feelings that might get away from them if they aren’t careful. […]

Management, Managing People

March 31, 2024

Good Leaders/Managers Are Balanced

You have to move the sliders into a unique combination for each challenge. The four elements in thisillustration were just chosen at random—I’m not saying that these are the four that […]

Growth, Managing People

March 17, 2024

We’re Terrified When You’re Bored

Like the headline states, your people are terrified when you’re bored. Why? Because you’re liable to do something crazy to spice things up. But that’s not really the terrifying part. […]

Management, Managing People

February 11, 2024

Your Scarcity Mindset Creates Chaos

There’s this weird mental condition that all of us slide into from time to time, and then there are some folks who wallow in it regularly. It’s called a “scarcity […]

Expertise, Management, Managing People, Marketing

January 21, 2024

Adding Contractors Into the Mix

While I don’t have specific data to quantity this, I’ve never seen this many firms moving away from traditional staffing models to use a mix of contractors, instead. This is […]

Management, Managing People, Roles

January 2, 2024

Stopping Is As Important As Starting

It’s a lot easier to start things than to stop them. Starting feels like growth and adventure, and things feel alive. Stopping can feel like loss and failure, but it […]

Clients, Finance, Growing Your Business, Growth, Managing Clients, Managing People

December 18, 2023

How to show appreciation to employees without any profits

If your coffers aren’t quite as full as you’d like at the end of this year, you’re not alone. It has been a tough year for many in our industry, […]

Managing People

October 23, 2023

The Pros/Cons of Remote Work

I wrote about this a few years ago, and I probably won’t write about it again for four years or so. I’m convinced that we should be unconvinced about the […]

Developing Processes, Managing People

September 30, 2023

Should You Be Dismissing Staff More Quickly?

I was talking to an agency owner about a standing New Years resolution he had. Before the beginning of each new year, he and his business partner had a pact […]

Managing People

September 26, 2023

One Step At A Time, People

This is good. You made some courageous decisions this year. Some around current clients, some around which accounts you didn’t pursue, some around how many people you can afford to […]

Growing Your Business, Managing People

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