A Proven Method to Stop the Business Bottlenecks in Your Company
You’ve put years of blood, sweat, and tears into your business. You continue to devote everything you have—time, freedom, and money—to ensure that things get done exactly the way that you want them done. Your blood, sweat, and tears might have been crucial to getting things started, and even now, you feel like you donate […]
The Five Phases of Scaling—in a Nutshell
As you scale your business, your ultimate goal is to shift from being “the boss” to becoming a leader. Your end game is to remove yourself from the equation and build a self-managed company. Your role as the founder is to let go of the day-to-day, to strategize and build relationships to supercharge growth, and to […]
Four Simple Steps to Executing Your Roadmap
These past few weeks, I have introduced several of my SCALEit Method™ concepts to help guide you along your scaling journey. We’ve covered Strategic Vision, Cash Flow, Alliance of the Team, and Leadership and now we are in the midst of tackling Executing Your Roadmap. By now you have divided your schedule among Prep Days, […]
Celebrate Both Work and Life with the 3 P’s of Planning
In my last blog installment, I presented you with the gift of a free month. Now I am going to share with you the secret of how to maximize the time of the eleven “working” months—and also reap the rewards of the free twelfth. The Three Ps of Planning—Prep Days, Pinnacle Days, and Play Days—help you […]
Getting Time on Your Side: The Gift of a Personal Bonus Month
What would you do if you had an extra month per year? How would you spend all of that extended free time? Live in your bathing suit on the beach, write your memoir, spend more time with your friends or loved ones, learn how to play the flute, or fly on the trapeze? I’m about to […]
The Surprising Reason Why Most Execution Fails: Entrepreneurial ADD
In business, a brilliant idea is just a fantasy if it stays only in your head. Execution, the final stage of the SCALEit Method™, is when you set your strategy in motion and make everything happen. It’s all about taking action. You are the idea magnet, the visionary, the leader. Implementation—well, that’s another story. Execution […]
How Do You Really Rate as a Leader?
Answer the following question as honestly as you can: Would your team rate your leadership as high as you would? How do you rate as a leader? While you’ve been putting heart, soul, sweat, and tears into your business for years, have you been mindful of the team that has stood by your side every step […]
Six Surefire Ways for Your Team to Feel Appreciated
In all likelihood, you think you are doing everything right when it comes to how you treat your team. After all, you give them a regular paycheck and do your best to offer a competitive benefits plan. You’ve doled out raises and promotions when you felt they were deserved and the business could sustain them. […]
The Secret to a Productive, Harmonious Team: Cocreation
Not too long ago I invited Robert Richman, the former cultural strategist at Zappos, to speak at one of my Pinnacle Global Network events. He used the phrase cocreating when referring to how a leader collaborates with his or her team to work through issues and come up with solutions together. IF YOU BARK, THEY […]
How to Create a Rad Culture in Your Organization
You, as the company leader, are the Visionary. It is up to you to attract and surround yourself with creative talent and how-to experts who can transform your Big Picture Vision into reality. That includes your taking the lead to build a culture that aligns your team with your Vision and feeds off your passion […]