A Business On Purpose Is Profitable AND Generous
When we hear the word “economics” we tend to retreat quickly to lighter topics instead of anchoring ourselves for a thoughtful discussion. A Business On Purpose is a business that is eager to learn about and contribute to...
The One Word We Are Focused On In 2020
We are wrapping our fifth calendar year as a business and in pursuit of our mission to liberate business owners from the chaos of working IN their business so they can build a business on purpose and leverage their business AS their mission in life. Why We Are Doing...
Four Powerful Books For You To Read In 2020
Over the holiday break I had a chance to restructure my bookshelves and do one of my favorite things...meander through my books! Books are NOT just for nerds like me. Books are a wise conversation with an old soul. Hemingway said, “no friend is as loyal as a...
How To Position Your Business As A Platform To Help Employees Eliminate $68k In Debt
Too many owners see their businesses either as an irritation to endure or as a machine merely for profit-generation. A business is so much more. Business and commerce are incredible tools in the hands of thoughtful owners that can be leveraged as a powerful force for...
How WRITING Out Your Values Can Help You Quit Smoking Or Build A Powerful Business?
Coaching business owners has allowed us some pretty exciting highs. Coaching also requires the thickening of a coach's skin. There are plenty of days where I show up to “practice” ready to coach and the response is a subtle eye roll from an owner, “Really? We’re...
Building a Recession Proof (or Reinforced) Business In Preparation For A Market Storm
The headline landed this past week that so many thought might be coming… Since 2008 virtually every business owner has thought, “when will the next recession come and how bad will it be?” Yours truly has wrestled with the same question during moments of emotional and...
Slow Is The New Fast And Wisdom Is The Game-Changing Tool
“Wig”, as most call him, sat in front of me over the simplicity of a Subway sandwich shop table and motioned his arm with a fist up and down saying thoughtfully and slowly, “it’s about wisdom.” Wisdom. Last week I was with a group of Cross Country athletes from our...
I Hate Hiring! Is There An Easier Way?
I was exhausted and standing in front of a Customs Official in the Lagos airport. “Where is your yellow immunization card?” My face turned yellow I’m sure as my eyes darted through my passport. I was no stranger to the Nigerian customs process and was usually well...
Want To Sell Your Business? Here Is How.
We stopped about 38 minutes through our coaching time and one of the Owners asked, “could you help us just sell our business?” He was frustrated with his construction company because construction is hard. With all of the lead hunting, bidding, questioning, job...
3 Things Every Business Owner Should Monitor
“I see the new building, and the delivery trucks and all of the promotions she is running around town, she must be killing it with her business!” You and I have both said it at some point. We declare, “they are making money hand over fist!” when we see that...
The Myth Of “I Don’t Need To Market My Business”
He bragged, “I don’t have to market my business, it markets itself.” It was one of those statements where publicly I responded with a polite and affirming chuckle but privately my mind was on the spectrum between confused and shamed. “Is that true?” I thought. If a...
You Need A Common Language In Your Business
My friend Abubakar speaks five languages. Five. English, French, Fulfulde, Hausa, and Yoruba. I speak one...and then know about ten words in four other languages. Abubakar has a background that I don’t fully understand and yet has provided him opportunities that were...
The Biggest Lie in Business: “It’s Just Business”
“It’s just business” is a scapegoat for not having to express emotion when we need to make a hard decision related to work. If you snub a client or employee on a project, the short-term fix is to simply hang it on the rack of “It’s just business.” We have all heard...