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....

Aug 26, 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, de...

Aug 19, 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 ene...

Aug 12, 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 maga...

Aug 5, 2010

Business Owner, Why it’s Profitable to be a Quitter

Let me guess, at times you feel overworked, overwhelmed and like a prisoner to your business. Any more, your frustrations often outweigh your fun. And lastly, you are wearing multiple hats and functi...

Jul 29, 2010

Business Owner, How’s Your Emotional Management?

To run a successful business, at a minimum, you need to be effective in multiple categories: self management (vision, goals, focus, priority management, personal responsibility, etc.), marketing/sales...

Jul 22, 2010

Business Owner, What Movies Are You Playing in Your Head?

My 11-year old son loves going to the movies. To be fair, he also loves the exorbitantly priced popcorn and blue slushies (ice drink). Anytime a new movie trailer comes out at the theater or on TV, h...

Jul 15, 2010

No Doubt You Need Business Coaching … But Do You Want It?

Over the past 18 years, as a business coach and owner of a business coaching franchise system, one of the recurring questions I have been asked (as well as my certified business coaches throughout Nor...

Jul 8, 2010

Role Call for Business Owners

During the last 90 days or so, I have been spending lots of quality time with my son playing baseball and tennis, to name a few activities. I have also faithfully taken my wife out on a date once a w...

Jul 5, 2010

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