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Unforeseen support issues when shifting to growth mode
You are excited. You were smart enough to recognize the need to ramp up your business development efforts and you’ve allocated funds. You may even have brought in talent to help you fill the pipeline....
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Are you in or out?
“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” -Michael Corleone, The Godfather Part III Are you working on your business or in your business…is a question that I recently asked as a way of...
View Article5 Essential Questions for Senior Management
Read a great article from McKinsey on Organizational Health, where I stole (borrowed) this: Performance and health can be viewed through five frames. Aspire: Where do we want to go? Performance:...
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Good to Great…to Lousy…back to Pretty Good.
Finally read Good to Great, by Jim Collins (yes, I know that I’m a bit behind in my reading, but just never seemed to get around to this one). I thought it was good (not great) in that it didn’t really...
View ArticleThe Answer
Every day I am introduced to a new model for business improvement, whether its a business book written by the latest guru, a whitepaper that has hit my inbox, or a presentation shared online. In each...
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Good Times, Bad Times
But we can’t do that now… I’ve heard this comment quite a bit in recent times. It usually is preceded by things like “we used to do that” or “we’ve talked about that” or “that’s on our wish list.” The...
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WWSJD
What Would Steve Jobs Do? Is everybody sick of hearing about Steve Jobs? Today an article in American Banker written by Vernon Hill (Commerce Bank, Metro Bank)… He told biographer Walter Isaacson,...
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A time for “Why”
The end of the year is often a time for both reflection and contemplation…reviewing our successes and failures….and thinking about what the new year holds for us. But it can also be a time for...
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Everything I Needed to Know about Business (or Life) I Learned on Facebook.
Whether its Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, we’ve all seen (maybe been bombarded by) the pop-philosophy quotes in our content streams. Most of the time, they are so simplistically true that they get...
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