There are two paths leaders can take. One is a mile wide and an inch deep or an inch wide and a mile deep. Doing a little bit of a lot of things can be exciting, offering a variety of opportunities, like sampling from the buffet table of what could be possible. This approach can… View Article
What do you need to know when adding to your team? It can be summed up with a few questions that may get to the core; the rest is art and science combined. Three questions to consider which can simplify how you think about adding to your team: This is a core value question, listening… View Article
When you are working on a team, it can bring the best and the worst of each other to the table. When mired in how things look, we get rigid, stuck and default to process instead of thinking. When things are working, it’s easy to hide the lack of thinking because the results mask automaticity… View Article
Relationships matter. At the heart of it, there is nothing else. When you run your business as if the busyness is the business, you lose. Relationships are the intangible and visceral heart of all that matters. When you lose sight of this reality focusing on the tasks and things to do, you’ll also lose something… View Article
Structure frees creativity and structure creates freedom. I’d like to say I’m smarter than my dog, but some days I wonder. When we moved five years ago, our bulldog, Spanky, was lost. He struggled for a few weeks with the new location, routine, and loss of what he formerly relied upon to navigate his days… View Article
Who gives you energy? What activities give you energy? Here’s a simple exercise to try: Write a list and don’t answer with the “right” answers. Tell the truth. Who and what fill you up? When you stop to think, is your list long? Does it flow easily and is it hard to limit all the… View Article
Follow through is tiring for me. What pushes me to finish is maintaining our reputation and keeping my word. It’s easier for me to keep my own promises than to work with others to ensure we’re communicating well enough to deliver what we agree to collectively. Working in teams requires us to coordinate actions, agreements… View Article
One of our core values is “doing work you love with people you love.” This is meaningful to our incredible team to measure behavioral accountability, AND we use it in assessing our clients as well. It causes us to reflect on our attention to their needs, special things that make their experience as good as… View Article
Family business isn’t for everyone. For those of us who appreciate it, one of the benefits of doing work you love is doing it with people you love. Whether by chance, by choice, or by circumstance, I hope you truly enjoy those you work with to the point of loving them. For us, one of… View Article
Ah, what an interesting time it is to be alive in history. I can relate to the opening line, “it was the best of times, and the worst of times.” Truly, I believe it’s all good, yet sometimes my mind has to catch up to authentically reframe what looks like a challenge.
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