Business Owner Resources

Daniel M. Murphy
The Growth Coach
Co-Founder & President

The Growth Coach is committed to re-educating and re-focusing business owners to lead more, work less, and enjoy greater freedom, financial success and happiness. Here are some unique and powerful resources offered through our website to help you better learn about yourself, what you truly desire from life and your business, and how to go about getting what you want.

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Thu, 02 Sep 2010

Business Owner, Quit Developing Strong Weaknesses

To run a successful business, there are dozens and dozens of skillsets that are necessary. Sadly, many business owners mistakenly believe they need to be the sole person to possess all the requisite skillsets. That they must be fully competent in … read more -->

Thu, 26 Aug 2010

Don’t Kid Yourself, Micro-Management is a Macro-Problem

Today’s Growth Coach Blog is dedicated to the dreadful disease of micro-management … that all too common condition where a business owner mistakenly thinks he/she needs to do everything in a business. Where they incorrectly assume they need to be … read more -->

Thu, 19 Aug 2010

How to Combat Growing Business Complexity

Small business owners and entrepreneurs continually have to battle against the economy, competition, government interference, employee issues, cash flow, changing technologies, surprises, busyness, denial, distractions, and a host of other challenges. Such COMPLEXITY is simply the “price of a
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Thu, 12 Aug 2010

Your Most Vital and Profitable Appointment Each Week

As a business coach for over eighteen years, I can declare with the utmost confidence that one of the greatest enemies of small business owners is BUSYNESS. As such, owners can be their own worst enemy. They are so busy … read more -->

Thu, 05 Aug 2010

Lack of Leverage … A Flaw in Many Business Models

Because I am both a business owner and business coach (I know, a strange combination), I was asked to submit a sample overview of a “Key Lesson Learned as a Business Owner” to a national business magazine. I’m pretty sure … read more -->

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The Growth Coach Blog Has Moved to a New Location

By Daniel M. Murphy on 6/3/2010

Dear loyal blog readers, The Growth Coach Blog has moved to a new location. Our business coaching blog can now be found at a new domain, www.GrowthCoachBlog.com. This new location is powered by Word Press, giving us greater capabilities, better search engine optimization, and a more robust blog platform. We will keep this existing blog location as an Archive Blog, where you can access two-year’s worth of Growth Coach blog entries. Be sure to use the search feature on the left side to locate the business coaching content you desire. Here’s to you achieving More Success and More Life.

Daniel M. Murphy
President, Founder & Business Coach
The Growth Coach
Business Coaching Franchise System
Certified Business Coaches throughout North America

Managing The Two Vital Worlds in Your Business: Front-Line & Back-Office

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,...

Closing the Performance and Satisfaction Gap

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...

For a Better Business & Better Life...Become a Better Owner

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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