Small Business Owners: How to Get Your Life Back
The first post of this series, Big Challenges for Small Business Owners, examined the three biggest challenges owners face: people, finances, and time. In the The Small Business People Puzzle: Part 1 and Part 2, we looked deeper into the challenge of finding, selecting, attracting, orienting, training, motivating, and retaining the right people to ensure …
Small Business Challenge: Finances
The first post in this series regarding small businesses was titled Big Challenges for Small Business Owners and in it we examined the three biggest challenges owners face: people, finances, and time. In the The Small Business People Puzzle: Part 1 and Part 2, we looked deeper into the challenge of finding, selecting, attracting, orienting, …
When Your Personal Brand is Too Good? Too Bad!
Talk about the power of a personal brand! Angela Ahrendts reputation is worth more than nearly any NBA star, the president of any country, and even Tim Cook – the CEO of Apple, where she now works.
“Apple’s newly-recruited head of retail was paid more than $70 million in her first year with the company …
How to Successfully Work with and Manage Millenials
Is the younger, tech-crazed generation giving you a run for your money in the workplace?
An interesting benefit of my work as a professional speaker is interacting with sometimes thousands of people every week, across generations. Few topics illustrate generational differences in the workplace as technology, my particular topic. In fact, it’s impossible to discuss …
Championship Results In Small Business Easy To Achieve
April is time when there is a lot of focus on championships in the athletic world in the United States.
When the Major League Baseball season began a couple of weeks ago every team was in first place with equal visions of winning the World Series Championship.
That same week the NCAA Men’s and Women’s …
Big Challenges for Small Business Owners
Small business owners wear many hats and make many decisions each day. Most of these decisions are small and they have minor impacts. Some, however, are common to most small businesses and can have major impacts. That’s what this post is all about.
The first big challenge facing most small business owners is finances. As …
David Grutman: Bartending in Aventura to the King of South Beach Nightlife
Last week I got the opportunity to chat with David Grutman, one of the founding partners of Miami Marketing Group; the company behind the top Miami nightclubs LIV, STORY, and LIV Sun Life Stadium. Over the course of this interview we will get insight into moving up the ranks of South Beach nightlife, relationship management, …
3 Attributes of a Championship Employee
To build championship performance in any environment, whether it be on the athletic field or in business, organizational leaders need to evaluate team members (athletes or employees) for three key attributes:
Ability Attitude AptitudeNow, if you read the article two weeks ago Creating Championship Performance in Small Business Workplaces that offered 5 C.H.A.M.P. traits …
Why Do You Do What You Do?
Simon Sinek proposed in his 2009 TED Talk titled How Great Leaders Inspire Action that Martin Luther King, Steve Jobs, and other inspirational leaders communicate starting with “Why?” His talk is posted on YouTube and has garnered over 15 million views to date. It also led to a best selling book titled Start with Why.…
Creating Championship Performance in Small Business Workplaces
The spring is a great time to be a sports fan in the United States as:
March Madness crowns the annual collegiate basketball champion. Professional basketball and hockey leagues start the most interesting segments of their seasons with their extensive 16 team playoff tournaments in the NBA and NHL. All Major League Baseball teams are…