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...