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Will This Be the Year You Seriously Drive Up the Value of Your Company?
If you have resolved to make your company more valuable in 2022, you may want to think hard about how your customers pay.
2 Key Ways to Build Resilience, Survive a Downturn, and Thrive (Even in a Recession)
Does your leadership team function in a culture that works – in good times and bad? Does it possess the kind of agile and effective leadership skills necessary to survive an economic downturn, such as a recession?
3 Ways Your Crew Can Lead the Way to Customer Loyalty and Profitability
Step into the new home office of Crew Carwash in Fishers, Indiana and you’ll see images of leaders Joe and Ed Dahm on the glass wall accompanied by these words: “We are in the people business… we just happen to wash cars.”
Strengthening Learning Through Collaborative Learning
Collaborative learning occurs when members of a group come together to discuss ideas and solve problems with the intention of learning. This model of learning is particularly useful when it occurs in cohorts.
How a Cash Acceleration Strategy Can Help Your Business Soar!
Scaling up your business is all about systematically reaching new heights – employing effective business growth strategies to enjoy more money with more free time and more fun (with less stress). As a Scaling Up success coach helping create cultures that work, it occurs to me that operating a business – and taking that business to higher altitudes of success – is like learning to fly an airplane. This was always a dream of mine, and everything was going well until…
Are You Leveraging Conflict, or is Conflict Leveraging You?
When I first met an executive leadership team of a decade’s old successful family business, my first question was this: “What do you cherish about your work?” Out of the 11 leaders, almost everyone said, “our people, our culture.”
3 Reasons You Need a Strategic Vision of Greatness – and a Plan to Get There
In growth firms, there’s a push to get remarkable results! However, it can be challenging to stay focused on a longer-term vision – or navigate a powerful strategy to reach those goals year after year.
Scaling Up Your Business? Liberate Yourself from Day-to-Day Shackles First
Business success requires strategic implementation of “4 Decisions”: 1) People, 2) Strategy, 3) Execution, and 4) Cash.
Transformational Enablers to the Rescue — Part 2
In part 1 of my thoughts on transformational enablers, I discussed the first three enablers: CLARITY, ALIGNMENT and FOCUS.
How Do You Define Success?
Recently, serving in my role as a Scaling Up Business Coach, I met Paul Saunders, his wife Emily and brother Andrew who launched a successful start up over 10 years ago, a manufacturing company called eLuxury.
Transformational Enablers to the Rescue — Part 1
A recent article in the Harvard Business Review provided the results of research on the success of corporate (business) transformations.
The ONE WORD for Strategy
As you do your annual planning efforts you may be asking yourself this question: How can we scale up with the staffing pressures that we feel?
How to Bust a Recession!
Create a climate of high-performance to prevail and succeed in challenging times.
Stop and Smell the Blue Iris
Looking at the iris as if for the first time, I noticed light blue petals opened in groups of three. with soft, white, furry stamens in the middle.
Brent Tilson: What Could Put Your Company Out of Business?
During the fourth lap of the 2020 Indianapolis 500 race, I was on the edge of my seat watching as the right front wheel of car #51 driven by Australian James Davison burst into flames!
How Emotionally Intelligent Leaders Improve Conflict Resolution
In this interview, Joanne Farrell Quinn, PhD, offers important insights for honing the skill of conflict resolution, a critical competency of Emotional Intelligence.
Conflict Resolution: The Power of a Shared Vision in a Crisis
Facing a global pandemic that resulted in an economic crisis that disrupted normal work at the office was the challenge Tom Ward and his Indianapolis-based team were facing.
CREW Carwash Leaders Know This — Moods Are Contagious!
What CREW Carwash, an Indianapolis-based company knows, is this; the climate and weather impact the number of cars washed.
7 Leadership Commitments That Forge Elite Teams
What does it take for your team to commit to serve at an elite level?
The Value of Productive Conflict When Scaling Up by Dr. Craig Overmyer
A fresh concept about the friction that naturally occurs in any work situation comes from Richard Barrett, founder of the Barrett Values Centre, an organization of experts in assessing “cultural entropy.”
Mindful Leadership at Every Level When Scaling Up
Like many successful entrepreneurs, Bob Whitacre grew his company—Cornerstone Companies, a 30-year-old healthcare real estate firm—from plans on the back of napkins and a handful of people to a team that could handle the challenges of managing thousands of square feet of real estate.
The Link between Engagement and Performance
At CREW Carwash, the climate and weather impact the number of cars washed. Rain or snow followed by sunshine bodes for an increase in the numbers of washed cars.
Unfrazzling: Cutting Stress in Half!
The negative emotions of frazzle are contagious and sweep like the flu, hampering team performance. What can employees do—through their own self-leadership—to accept the other half of the responsibility for their work climate and reduce frazzle?