By Daniel M. Murphy on 5/27/2010

To be an effective business owner, you must adopt a CEO (Chief Executive Officer) mindset and big-picture perspective.  As a leader, however, don’t fall prey to complexity or sophistication.  Don't over-complicate the business for your customers or employees.  Fight to keep your business simple and straightforward...it's much easier to manage and for your employees to "get it".  

At all costs, keep complexity, confusion and chaos to a minimum.  After all, simplicity allows for clarity of focus,...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 5/20/2010

As a business owner, executive or professional, do you have a performance and satisfaction gap between where you ARE today and where you want to BE?  Sure you do.  We all do. The gap is the difference between where your business is now (current reality) and where you want it to be (an ideal future). 

How big is that difference, your gap?  The more you are dissatisfied with your current reality, the larger the gap.  And the larger the gap between your current realities and desires, the more...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 5/13/2010

This Growth Coach blog is intended to assist and educate business owners, executives and professionals thinking about getting some business coaching help.  You will find several links below to four website pages with short, informational videos in the upper right corner.  These videos should provide you with additional insight about The Growth Coach, our business coaching quarterly workshop process (Strategic Mindset), the benefits of business coaching, and an brief overview of our guaranteed coaching...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 5/6/2010

This Growth Coach business coaching blog will be quite simple.  It will consist of a series of fifteen tough business coaching questions every small business owner should answer for himself/herself.  Be brutally honest and face your current reality...not what you wish it were.  If you can't answer "YES" to a vast majority of these questions, you should seek some coaching help so you can learn how to work less, earn more and enjoy a richer life. 

After these fifteen questions, you will meet...

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