Master the Art of Hiring A-Players for Success – Part 1

Jul 2, 2024 | Ascendance Blog, Leadership

Optimize, elevate, and secure top talent. Hello from Atlanta, Georgia! This week is the first instalment of my guide on mastering the art of hiring A-players for your business!  (Also if you’re in Montreal, Canada next week, I’m going to be speaking at a free...

How To Use The Cascading Goals Sheet By Ascendance.Coach

Apr 9, 2023 | Leadership

Cascading goals are a core aspect of the Ascendance method of managing a business. They help organizations break down their annual goals into manageable quarterly goals, which are further divided into departmental goals for each quarter. This article will guide you...

Documentation ≠ DNA

Mar 22, 2023 | Leadership

Rethinking procedures to add speed to your business The cult of SOPs is enticing, but is misleading entrepreneurs. Or maybe more accurately, entrepreneurs are misleading themselves. Standard Operating Procedures are by definition systemized activities that are done...

Autonomy

Mar 21, 2023 | Leadership

Want a great business? One that will thrive for generations? Allow autonomy. Jason Cohen, founder of WPEngine, said at a recent talk he gave (quoting someone else), “Approval doesn’t add value.” Most entrepreneurs don’t allow autonomy in their business. They institute...

Ideas Must Be Nurtured

Mar 20, 2023 | Leadership

Have you ever had a big idea, set out to figure out how to do it, and then realized it seemed impossible and just killed the idea?  I know I have. Still do it a dozen times a year. Your team does this, too. What happened was you and/or your team jumped into the...

Hire For Exponential Leverage

Mar 17, 2023 | Leadership

1+1 Should Never Equal 2 If it does, you’ve hired the wrong people. Hiring is about leverage. If you do it badly, you get negative leverage. 1 + 1 = 1.9 (I’ve seen a lot of entrepreneurs do this to themselves by hiring a part time VA as their first hire)...