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Build Your Company Like a Jigsaw Puzzle

Build Your Company Like a Jigsaw Puzzle Consider doing this for your next quarterly or annual strategic planning meeting. Leave the session with ONLY 10 core projects to focus on for the quarter (smaller ones) or year (larger ones). Either way – limit them to...

Do you KAMP? Your Revenue Growth Depends On It

In the early days building 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, we had a franchisee that was struggling. They just weren’t getting enough work to cover their costs. We knew that it was more about aligning their entire team and making a focused effort than it was about their...

Here is Why You Need a Vivid Vision

Vision statements and mission statements are useless. They don’t work. They have never worked. They will never work. Why? Because this is how they are made… You get a bunch of smart people in the room. You put a bunch of your favorite words up on...

How to Save CEOs From Themselves

Help save CEOs from themselves! Most entrepreneurs suffer from what I call A.D.O.S., and it stands for: Attention Deficit, Oh Squirrel! The reality is, entrepreneurs and CEOs are often “Quick Starters” (a term from the KOLBE A profile I have all the CEOs I...

Fire Some of Your Customers

Why would you fire your customers? Eighty percent of your results come from twenty percent of your clients or customers – as a business coach, I always advise CEO’s to at least fire the bottom twenty percent because they’re sucking up eighty percent...