As an entrepreneur, you need to bring a balanced leader to the game every day. To successfully do that requires a constant system check of your mind, body, and soul, and when you spend your days solving the most important problems to your organization, it takes making time for activities...
News Flash: Everything runs in a cycle. Your life, your business, the Sun and Moon, and Mercury. In case you didn’t know, Mercury entered retrograde in early April, which is a window of time blamed for hard decisions, bad circumstances, misbehaving electronics and funky moods. Here’s a gentle reminder -...
I was recently online when a peer posted an intriguing question on Facebook. I could tell they were truly interested in what people would say, yet, I was extremely curious as to whether they could see beyond the responses into what it all meant. The question provided a choice that...
One day I was faced with an audience that didn’t know who I was and I was taught a harsh lesson - I had been running ineffective meetings for years. For years, I had observed my bosses and proudly followed the meeting practices that they delivered with each meeting. I...
I'm torn. My 3rd favorite airline plans to marry my 2nd favorite airline... they have very different cultures, aircraft fleets, strategies, and different passengers. Alaska will gain an SFO base, a smaller LAX base, a whole different fleet of planes (increasing maintenance costs), new routes, new employees, and will be...
Everyone loves the back seat driver. You know the one, they claim they don’t want to drive, yet, as soon as you get in the car, they just can’t help themselves. It’s like you forgot how to drive and it can make the journey downright painful. Driving an organization is...
Most common phrase I hear, "I have an idea and don't know where to start". First, you need to determine if you have an audience. Before you can entertain the idea of creating a business, you must do your research to find the size of your audience and calculate the...
Question: What exactly are you going to do with the money? When I was managing a firm in Milwaukee, as the Chief Operating Officer, I was approached by a small Venture Capital (VC) firm to attend a meeting to discuss their desire to fund another start-up. The VC wanted me...
In my twenties, I was ready to conquer the world and thought I knew everything that came my way. Growing up in the family business, I had watched and absorbed business operations and customer service for years. I had seen everything possible working with my Dad, or so my young...
For the past 2 years, in June, I spend 7-days riding my bicycle from San Francisco to Los Angeles. I know, why in the world would I do that? This is the point where most people get that crazy scrunched up face and a high-pitched voice says, “are you crazy?”. No,...
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