What’s the biggest hard trend impacting your organizations today? One hard trend seems to have snuck up on many of my clients and partners’ teams. It’s what I call 10,000 strong! I think it may be vanity. Or maybe most great leaders are optimists. Or maybe it’s both/and.
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How to Recruit Millennials for Your Growing Business!
How do you recruit the best people for your teams? How can you attract, recruit, and onboard millennials for your organization? Last week, we talked about attracting great people to your team. Today, I share the how-tos of recruiting your next generation of leaders across the organization. In many cases,…
Continue Reading....How a Great Story Can Help You Sell Your Business for More.
When I work with clients to get their businesses ready for sale, the first thing I look for is a great story. The seller must be able to tell the potential purchaser a great story about the business they are considering buying. I know a good story could take you to…
Continue Reading....6 Things to Do Before Your Nonprofit Leader Retires
You live in a small town, and the community newspaper runs a frightening headline: “Mysterious Disease Strikes Town: One of Three Residents Will Disappear by 2017.” You read the article, and the news is even worse than you thought. By 2020, scientists predict, two out of three residents will be…
Continue Reading....What Can We Learn From Tim Cook’s CEO Succession Plan?
Earlier this week we talked about why Apple’s succession strategy worked. We shared that one of the traits of a successful successor is the leader must know where they are going and what key capabilities are required to help get them there. How Tim Cook began building his succession strategy.…
Continue Reading....What Can CEOs Learn from Apple’s Succession Strategy?
How would you like to follow the world’s most successful technology entrepreneur? What would you do to keep your organization growing against the odds? How do you create a successful succession strategy when your CEO is terminally ill? These were just some of the challenges facing Tim Cook, CEO of…
Continue Reading....What Can Entrepreneurs Learn from George Washington Today?
George Washington led our country well over 220 years ago. How would he deal with the many challenges facing serving leaders today? What can we serving entrepreneurs learn from this revolutionary leader? Could his revolutionary leadership strategies still help entrepreneurs today?
Continue Reading....How Can Entrepreneurs Create a Culture of Excellence?
How does an entrepreneur create a leadership culture? How do you build an organization that continues to grow and build, maturing beyond the capabilities of its founder and original leadership team? To be a successful leader today, you must be able to expand beyond your own leadership capabilities to create a culture…
Continue Reading....Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Hiring Vets!
I’d like to honor our vets on Veteran’s Day! To all of the vets who read this blog on a regular basis, thank you for your service to our country. How can entrepreneurs gain from the coming wave of military retirement? In the next 12 months, between 250,000-400,000 service members…
Continue Reading....Who Cares About Your Company?
The Harvard Business Review says that Market Basket is a profitable family-owned regional chain of 71 supermarkets in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, with around 25,000 employees. According to Forbes, it’s the 127th-largest private company in the United States, with $4.6 billion in revenue. But today, as I write, the…
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