Business Owner Only Hires People Smarter than Him
When Travis Greenwood was nineteen, he learned a meaningful leadership lesson he still applies today as a small business owner. Travis was a sophomore in college, [...]
This Is How You Can Make Everyone’s Job Better
Team members at Solid Blend Technologies had a unified vision, but gaps in the company’s operations were starting to show. Solid Blend Technologies is a Dayton-bas [...]
2 Key Ways to Let the Customer Lead You to New Ideas
Several years ago, a customer came to Promotional Spring asking for point of purchase signage. (Promotional Spring is a company that creates experiences and soluti [...]
Are You ‘Customer-Obsessed’?
It’s been said that in the knowledge economy, it’s now every individual's responsibility to innovate with the customer in mind. When developing a new product or se [...]
How To Build A Work Culture That Appeals To All Generations
People picked on my generation. People picked on my fathers’ generation. People are picking on this generation, and I think it’s wrong,” says Scott McGohan, CEO at [...]
What is Professional Management?
In the video below a number of small business owners explain—in their own words—how professional management has helped their businesses. Professional management is [...]
Check the Pulse of Your Company Culture With These Questions
In SnackNation’s early years, CEO Sean Kelly was afraid of hearing raw and honest feedback from his team. “Even though I cared massively about what people were fee [...]
What’s the Painful Problem Your Business Is Helping to Solve?
Throughout my career, I’ve developed many products and services that were good, sometimes even great. But more times than I would like to admit, they never got not [...]
This Is The Power of Saying ‘No’
Those that have attended my competitive strategy workshops have heard me say that the key to a great strategy is choosing what not to do: what products/services do [...]
Agree or Disagree? Happiness Is Your Employees’ Responsibility
Sitting on one of the office couches with the garage door open—the light and breeze freely flowing in—Adam Landrum, President & CEO at Up&Up took a moment [...]
Jumpstart Your Next, Big Strategic Move
Is your profit margin average for your industry? Is your revenue per customer in the middle of the pack for companies like yours? How about your growth rate as com [...]
Are You Building the Only Sustainable Competitive Advantage?
Not all company growth comes from selling more. Wes Gipe, Founder of Agil IT, agrees, saying he experienced this within his own company: “I had been so externally [...]