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The Decision Accelerator Tool
The Decision Accelerator helps you articulate the problem by removing emotions, opinions, hyperbole, and expectations from your vocabulary.
5 Ways To Spark Productivity—Not Burnout
Whether it’s the loss of connection, the remodeled walls between home and work, decision fatigue, endless video calls or all of the above—chronic stress is changing the way our brains work. It should change the way WE work, too.
How To Keep Your Critical Employees From Quitting
The Great Resignation is a real thing, and your company is not immune. You’ll either fire someone for the wrong reasons or they’ll quit for the right ones—and there’s a good chance you’ll both be worse for it.
You aren't as good at delegating as you think
If you put yourself in the middle of everything all of the time, you’re not just preventing your team from doing their jobs, you are missing tons of opportunities for growth—for them and for you.
Returning to work? Not so fast.
Don’t just “return to work.” Rally your team around these clear planning, accountability, and culture-building tools.
5 Signs of Burnout (and What To Do About It)
I have yet to find a small business owner who says, “I started my own business so I could slowly but surely bury myself in work, overwhelm, and stress.” If you’re like most entrepreneurs, the work—even, and especially, if it’s work you love—can take over your life in short order. Here’s how to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Call to Arms: Will You Rise to the Occasion?
Your team’s actions in this moment of national discord will speak volumes about who you are as a leader and what you stand for as a company. This is a moment in which your strategy and bottom-line matter less than how you and your team treat each other, your community, and each and every customer.
Business Continuity Plan, Part 2: Taking The Lead
Our reactions, our adjustments, our behaviors, our attitudes—these are what will define us in the days, weeks, and months to come. Not COVID-19. Your goal this week is to remember that.
Our Badass Call to Arms
It’s easy to be a leader when we’re surrounded by butterflies, rainbows, and pots of gold. Real leaders step up when the shit hits the fan.
Business Continuity Plan, Part 1: Optimizing Virtual Teams
We're focusing on at-the-ready tips to galvanize your virtual workforce against the challenges they may face in light of school closings, emotional overwhelm, and the unknown. Keep reading to get real tips from my team on how they've turned their home offices into badass command centers.
The Critical Mistake We All Make when Describing Our Brand Voice
I challenge you to forget adjectives for a hot second and stoke your brand voice with action verbs instead.
The No BS Guide to New Year’s Resolutions
Hindsight in 2020: The key to making goals is to live like you’ve already crushed them.
Build an Extraordinary Life, Three Goals at a Time.
Extraordinary lives aren’t created out of the ether on New Year’s Eve.
Extraordinary lives are built on purpose. Starting with these three goals.
Learn from My $20,000,000 Mistake
Every successful company begins with the end in mind. Learn how you—and the company you leave behind—can move on without regrets.
A-Players: The 4 C’s of Diamond-Standard Employees
A-Player employees and diamonds have a lot in common. They cut even the densest work in half. They sparkle under pressure. They make anyone who keeps them stand out. Everyone wants the biggest, brightest one.
Effective Communication: What’s Love Got to Do with It?
Could your communication skills use a little love? The answer, unquestionably, is YES.
Why Going At It Alone Is Admirable. And Stupid.
Changing the world by yourself is not the honor badge of the rugged industrialist. It’s the weighted belt that slows you down.
Why I Love Working with Veteran-Owned Businesses
Veteran business owners have a soft spot for the harder, braver road. Taking it isn’t the challenge—the challenge is making sure it goes where you want it to.
Playmakers and Gamechangers: Why Teams (and Companies) Need Both To Win
Playmakers and Gamechangers need each other to win. If you don’t have enough of one, it’s time to build your team with direction and intention.