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January 30, 2020

How To Handle That Employee You Simply Cannot Fire

That employee is you. But forget about you for a minute. Think about a key employee who is integral to your firm, because this isn’t going to work if we […]

Management, Managing People

January 24, 2020

Quit Trying to Hire People as Smart and Fast As You Think You Were

Building your firm around extraordinary people looks like a good idea, on the surface, but it doesn’t work out well in the long term. Here’s why: Your very best employees […]

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

January 16, 2020

Pros and Cons of Agile…in the Real World

The “agile” word is kind of like the “UX” word—a lot more firms are slinging that term around than are actually doing it well. Those firms are all over the […]

Clients, Digital, Management, Managing Clients, Managing People, Processes, Roles

November 21, 2019

One Simple Way to Measure Your Firm’s Performance

The simpler the better, and that applies to this very useful method of calculating the extent to which you are achieving your firm’s potential. I have a benchmarking service that […]

Benchmarking, Developing Processes, Finance

October 29, 2019

Moving from a Scarcity to an Abundance Mindset in the Creative Field

I keep seeing evidence of a “scarcity mentality” in myself…and in you readers. I want to give you a few things to think about, but here’s the payoff: Your scarcity […]

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

October 10, 2019

Rethinking a Distributed Workforce for the Creative Field

I’ve been doing extensive research and saving up observations about how to implement a remote workforce (i.e., work-from-home) for several years, now, and I’m ready to dive in with some […]

Management, Managing People, Roles

September 27, 2019

Losing Effective Control of Your Firm

Regardless of the circumstances surrounding your firm’s birth, you were drawn to the promise of more control over your business life. You might have been tired of all the effort […]

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

August 20, 2019

What Kind Of Client Work Will You Turn Down?

My 2Bobs podcast partner, Blair Enns, will sometimes ask this question: “What does it take to get fired around here?” He’s wondering whether a particular culture will spit people out. […]

Clients, Expertise, Growing Your Business, Growth, Managing Clients, Marketing, Marketing Yourself, The Work

August 5, 2019

Is Offering Staff Augmentation In Your Future?

More and more creative firms are getting nudged into “staff augmentation” for their clients, and a dozen of my clients have embraced it–all of those are making buckets of money. […]

Clients, Growing Your Business, Growth, Managing Clients

July 25, 2019

Your Creative Firm Is A Single Building With Two Rooms

One of the most surprising things about writing a book–after it’s done–is to discover what concepts resonate with readers and which ones never register at all. One of the simplest […]

Clients, Expertise, Managing Clients, Marketing, Marketing Yourself, The Work

July 17, 2019

Death of Strategy in Marketing

Strategy is not dead, but telling clients that your work is strategic is definitely not a differentiator. Even so, you might be surprised at how many creative firms tell me […]

Expertise, Managing Clients, Marketing, Marketing Yourself, The Work

July 9, 2019

Success Is Not a Straight Line for Creative Entrepreneurs

I think some people read these weekly insight pieces primarily because they feel like someone understands them. We all want to belong to something, which usually requires that we also […]

Growing Your Business, Growth, Management, Managing People

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