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November 6, 2022
What Your Team Wants You to Know
We started doing something interesting in our Total Business Reset offering, recently, and the results have been enlightening. We have two carefully crafted surveys—one for principals and one for each […]
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: What Your Team Wants You to Know
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October 17, 2022
Disappointment And Hope Are Both Critical Components of Leadership
I’m so excited to see nearly 200 of you in Atlanta in a week for the reprise of our Mind Your Own Business Conference. It’s been sold out for weeks, […]
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: Disappointment And Hope Are Both Critical Components of Leadership
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Managing People
September 4, 2022
Seeing The Big Picture vs. Too High and Too Low
My revenue dropped 28% from one year to the next. And instead of rebounding the next year, it dropped another 29%. So two years on, my revenue dropped by about […]
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: Seeing The Big Picture vs. Too High and Too Low
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Managing People
August 17, 2022
Why Most Firms In This Space Are “Owner-Operators” And What That Means
Why are there virtually no outside investors in this space? You know, people who want to invest in a firm without actually running it? And what are the implications of […]
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: Why Most Firms In This Space Are “Owner-Operators” And What That Means
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Succession and M&A
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June 12, 2022
Why You Should Be Hopeful About The Future
My professional life is consists mainly of fixing things: noticing what works elsewhere, listening closely to a given situation, and then applying those principles uniquely to foster improvement. That means […]
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: Why You Should Be Hopeful About The Future
Management
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Managing People
May 9, 2022
You Are Not Alone: Many Management Struggles Are Similar
As part of every Total Business Reset we do, we survey all of a firm’s employees on a number of different factors… from onboarding experience to internal processes to people […]
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: You Are Not Alone: Many Management Struggles Are Similar
Management
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Managing People
May 1, 2022
My Thesis…And How Much “Purpose” Your Business Needs
I have a lot of goals in my personal life, but I like to keep those separate from my business life. The more overlap there is between your personal and […]
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: My Thesis…And How Much “Purpose” Your Business Needs
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The Work
April 19, 2022
Confidence, Opportunity, Capacity
What leads to business success? If you’ve ever gone back to your high school reunion, you’ve probably seen some surprise success stories and scratched your head while asking the same […]
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: Confidence, Opportunity, Capacity
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Finance
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Growing Your Business
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Managing People
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Marketing
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Marketing Yourself
April 17, 2022
Lobbing Facts Over The Wall…Or Having Real Conversations
Today, I’ve got nothing about how to make better business decisions while running your independent marketing, digital, or creative firm. Instead, I’m just going to share something that’s been on […]
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: Lobbing Facts Over The Wall…Or Having Real Conversations
Management
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Managing People
March 12, 2022
Your Core Values Need To Actually Start Meaning Something
You read the title, and you already know that this article isn’t relevant for you. Sure, those other guys slap their core values on their website and don’t give two […]
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: Your Core Values Need To Actually Start Meaning Something
Management
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Managing People
March 7, 2022
Planning On Capacity And Growth In An Uncertain World
In an interconnected world, the possibility of local disruption is magnified when events halfway around the world pop up. Supply chain disruptions, foreign wars, and disease that travels by plane […]
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: Planning On Capacity And Growth In An Uncertain World
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Management
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Managing Clients
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Managing People
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Roles
February 26, 2022
The Problem With How Our Industry Understands Project Management
When I do a Total Business Reset of a firm, there are six modules we work through, and one of those is around roles and people and how to structure […]
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: The Problem With How Our Industry Understands Project Management
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