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...
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...
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...
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)...
Mar 16, 2023 | Leadership
Productivity is for employees. Effectiveness is for executives. Success Equals Busy? The thinking goes, successful people are more productive than less successful people, so therefore I should focus on getting lots of stuff done. This is true, but its correlation and...
