Three Realities That You Have The Wrong Vision
Michael Beaumont was doing a masterful job yesterday of teaching about the priority and necessity of vision. I was in my happy place. There were friends who I could here in our small church meeting space snickering and chuckling as Michael talked about vision, as if...
Systems Are Essential For Business Owner Survival…And Everything Else In Life
In his book Work The System Sam Carpenter writes, “systems are the invisible threads that hold the fabric of our lives together.” Carpenter goes on in his book to describe how his spiritual atheistic worldview was even changed not because to typical religious...
Why You Must INTENTIONALLY Slow Down Your Hiring Process
An article from Gettysburg College tells us we will spend roughly 90,000 hours of our life at work. That is one-third of every day of our life...working. Owners have a responsibility for creating businesses that produce value for customers, profit for the business,...
“I Didn’t Write It Down And It Almost Cost Me My Entire Company”
I will keep the names in this story anonymous, but trust me, the story is very real and happened just a few weeks ago from the time of this writing. Hank’s entire field operations team “stormed the gates” with their demands on Monday morning saying, “pay us more or...
How An Owners Office Should Be Setup (This Picture Is Worth 1,000 Coaching Sessions)
My very first job in High School was working for my neighbors who owned Country Boy’s Home & Garden Center in Greenville, SC. My office space was an outdoor nursery filled with plants, herbs, shrubs, pine needles and produce. Allen and Lucy were generous to...
4 Best Practices For Training Team Members
As I write this, college athletics Power Five Conference Presidents and Chancellors are meeting to discuss the viability of playing college sports, and in particular college football for the fall of 2020 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Wow. These must be grueling...
The Value Of Stress And Why You Need To Apply Small Amounts To Your Business :382
The latest headline declares “Business closures surge by 200% as coronavirus hammers US economy, study finds.” We have all experienced a force majeure (a cool word I heard a lawyer use the other day and thought I’d give it a shot with you here:) of sorts in the last...
LISTEN! “Normal” Ain’t Comin’ Back, It’s Time To Search For Something Brand New
Cliches are fast to harden during a pandemic. “In these uncertain times.” “When things go back to normal.” “When the economy re-opens.” The root word for “normal” gives reference to a carpenter’s square. A tool used so the angles will be standardized and without...
Why This Season Of Solitude Is So Important
A couple of nights ago my boys and I and a couple of their friends went to a small island in a nearby river and camped for the night. River Rat Island (self-named by a group of local friends) is a surreal place probably the size of a football field or two, packed with...
Building The 1,000 Piece Puzzle Of Your Business
It’s been well over a month since the “normal” schedule of school and sports were put on pause indefinitely forcing families to either acquiesce to either the binge consumption of Netflix and online gaming, or the creation of new things that did not exist prior. Just...
Do Not Expect Your Business To Return To “Normal”: “Better Start Swimmin’ Or You’ll Sink Like A Stone” – 377
The international narrative is harmonizing around the idea of “reopening” the economy and with it the assumption that once reopened, everything will return back to “normal”. “Normal” is not possible. As with any trauma the mind and body we begin responding...
Edison Did NOT Invent The Lightbulb…But He Did Build Something Better
Since I can remember Thomas Edison was the inventor of the light bulb. Until I read Richard Friday’s insightful book The Great Reset and found out Edison in fact did not invent the lightbulb. In the early 1800’s Sir Humphrey Davy began inventing a variety of safety...
Every Owner Needs An Implementer: Here Is What They Look Like
Starting out in the survival stage of your business means you spend most days dreaming, doing, and making sure that everything is being held together. Growth slowly (sometimes not so slowly) begins to creep in and before you know it you are maxed out not knowing how...
How We Turned My Coaching Into A System…So OTHERS Could Benefit
The first time I stepped foot onto Nigerian soil it was clear, “...this was way different than home.” We have been traveling in and out of Nigeria since 2006 and have developed some dear friends and partners during that time allowing us to work on important projects....
4 Things You Can (Err…Should) Do When You Feel Chaos…Starting Tonight
Over the weekend I devoured John Eldredge’s new book, Get Your Life Back: Everyday Practices For A World Gone Mad. A line in his introduction had me hooked as he was laying out the purpose of the book, “I found myself flinching when a friend texted and asked for some...