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January 25, 2019

Are You A Real Entrepreneur…Or A Franchisee?

This question could be a little offensive, but hear me out. As I’ve tried to picture in the graphic, a franchise entrepreneur operates on a prescribed track. Everything is fairly […]

Expertise, Growing Your Business, Growth, Management, Managing Clients, Managing People

January 22, 2019

Top Ten Qualities of the Best Project Managers

One of the first things I noticed when I began advising this field in 1994 was the bad rap that project managers had. There was a common refrain that Tony […]

Managing People, Processes, Roles

January 10, 2019

The One Thing That’s Going To Hold You Back

There’s one thing that will consistently hold you back from doing your best work and running a high performing firm, but it won’t come until later. In the early steps […]

Benchmarking, Clients, Developing Processes, Expertise, Growing Your Business, Growth, Management, Managing Clients, Managing People, Marketing, Marketing Yourself

December 19, 2018

If You Were Less Courageous

It’s been years since I’ve republished anything in this blog. I like to write from scratch. But every once in awhile, something bears repeating. I wrote this while sitting on […]

Developing Processes, Expertise, Finance, Growing Your Business, Growth, Management, Managing Clients, Managing People, Marketing, Marketing Yourself

December 6, 2018

There Are Three Kinds of Days In Your Week

I want to write something really concise for you today, because you have a lot to do and because I think I can improve your life if you’ll give me […]

Management, Managing People, Processes, Roles

September 29, 2018

Three Account Manager Power Grab Reversals

While project management (what I call Resourcing) is the most important role at your firm, client managers have the most difficult job. They have one foot firmly planted on both […]

Clients, Managing Clients, Managing People, Roles

September 5, 2018

Embrace Employee Turnover

I’m hearing so much whining these days about how hard it is to find good people, and then how they move on to another job so quickly. I feel like […]

Management, Managing People, Processes, Roles

August 23, 2018

Create a “Not To Do List” As Well

One (of quite a few!) early consulting mistakes I made was dumping a list of changes for principals to make in their laps. It wasn’t prioritized well, of course, but […]

Management, Managing People, Roles

August 10, 2018

Are You in Charge…or Just Feeding the Machine?

Businesses like yours grow, and then they take on a life of their own. You invent and create the robot (your business) and then the robot learns new tricks, settles […]

Clients, Expertise, Growing Your Business, Growth, Management, Managing Clients, Managing People, Marketing, Marketing Yourself

July 15, 2018

Using Prospective Client Orientation as a Marketing Tool

We’re going to explore the creation of your own client orientation tool. Before you decide that this might not be interesting enough to read, consider passing it along to a […]

Clients, Management, Managing Clients, Managing People, Marketing, Marketing Yourself, Processes

June 12, 2018

What Would You Do If You Knew A Downturn Was Coming?

I’m not saying one is, but I think we all get a tad nervous when things are this good for this long. It’s like the good gods have held the […]

Benchmarking, Developing Processes, Management, Managing People

May 13, 2018

Your Greatest Strength Might Very Well Be Your Greatest Weakness

On a recent podcast episode about personality profiles, I was explaining how your greatest strength (maybe your patience), if overused, can become your great weakness (you wait too long to […]

Growing Your Business, Growth, Management, Managing People, Roles

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