photo by Dave F Do you know what you’re subconsciously telling people about your business?  Are you sending messages that don’t match up with the impression that you’d like to send (assuming that you know what that is)? The thing is that you and your employees are constantly sending out messages whether you mean […]

   photo by Michael Filion I’ve got too much to do!  There’s never enough time to get everything done! I am feeling overwhelmed! I’m hear that kind of thing a lot from business owners (and everyone else) – I was going to do a new post on time management, but I thought a better approach […]

What’s your engine like – you know, the engine on your business? When you have an engine on your business – a big engine, one that can really crank up the RPMs, you are going to make some noise…and you’re going to create a wake! With your engine really cranked up, there’s no telling how […]

Photo by azrainman It’s not necessary to change.  Survival is not mandatory!   – W. Edwards Deming If you’re not actively marketing your business, you’re at a dead end!  Even if you’re doing a bit of marketing here and there, if you don’t have an online presence…if people can’t find you online – you’re at a […]

   Photo by dpstyles A new client of mine strongly recommended Patrick Lencioni’s “The Five Temptations of a CEO”, so I moved it to the top of my list and finished it this past weekend.  If you’re not familiar with Patrick Lencioni – he’s the founder of a leadership consulting company called the Table Group […]

So I had the ‘opportunity’ to go to the dentist this week.  It’s not my favorite thing to do, although luckily there were no issues! On this trip I distracted myself from the scraping and polishing by observing how they ran their operation.  Maybe  a lot of dentists are this way these days (I’ve been […]