https://youtu.be/bvxSk4TK0jI This is what a playbook sounds like. Your playbook should be one page front and back, super simple. Like playing football and the guys look at a playbook and cover it up. This is how I run my business - one page, front and back. Get it...
https://youtu.be/tvpVGzvdGws “Mark Whitmore here, head coach at Lodestone True North. I want to talk to you for a minute about how to stimulate growth in your business. First of all, let’s go over a couple things by what we mean...
For me, Spring is the best time to set new resolutions, not the new year. This is when everything starts to come alive. The daylight is longer, and brighter. Spring is infectious. January is, well, depressing. This is the time to look at your organization and tune it...
I've been working on my family budget. Tax time is a great opportunity to revisit your strategies and make sure you're on track. On track with what? With your plan. Your strategy. You know, the one you wrote down clearly and carefully. The one that has all the good...
Let me try bring some clarification to the term 'Accountability.' There are several ways to use this word. One way refers to being held responsible for certain actions or outcomes. Like your tax bill. You are being held accountable by the IRS. If you don't hold up...
Many of us escaped the 'Boss' and the 'J.O.B.' because of the pressure coming from up the chain. Or because of the ridiculous management style, or company culture, or downright stupidity emanating from 'The Man.' We hoped to escape some form of toxic accountability,...
Residing inside an organization, like a family or a business, can be much like inhabiting the inside of a pipe. Hard to know what is going on outside of it. Pipes have two parts, the inside and the outside. You can’t be in both places at the same time. How often have...
Intentionality. This is a big idea. We make decisions, and take action. We decide things. We do things. We pursue, and risk, and reach out from our current place on which we stand. We try to do things that are undone, and try to undo things that are done incorrectly....
Ideas, seminal thoughts, and the unique handmade truths of original thinking are a small flickering candle flame in the window of the mind. When you open it to the world, the winds of popularity quickly blow it out. These small flames are lit in the quiet rooms behind...
Navigation. The ability to discern the twists and turns, pitfalls and vistas that we come across on the journey to a particular destination, and make necessary course corrections to keep us on target. Often this is something we try to do by ourselves, for ourselves,...
Because they are all entrepreneurs, they understand the pain of running a business. They are trained to lead sessions so you can learn how to get back on track, and rediscover why you want to succeed.