5 Mistakes I Made as an Entrepreneur (and what I learned from them) This is a guest post by Nicholas Rubright – Nicholas shares his experiences of starting up a company and some lessons learned. Worth your time to check it out. You can see more information on Nicholas at the end of the post. Thanks Nicholas – Shawn Kinkade Kansas City Business Coach As an entrepreneur, I […]
Are you measuring what’s really important?
  photo by aussiegall There’s a popular business saying that “What gets measured gets done” – it’s attributed to Peter Drucker, Tom Peters and other business management experts. On the surface, it’s a common sense kind of statement – obviously if you aren’t measuring specific results, you can’t manage the outcome…picture playing a fast-paced basketball […]
The Power of Positive Thinking?
So I saw in interesting article in the Men’s Journal (May 2007 – I’m not doing a good job of keeping up with the backlog…). Anyway, the article was titled “Think Yourself Stronger (how sports hypnosis boosts performance)”.  The essence of the article was that the author was trying sports hypnosis as a way to […]
Strategic Planning – How Far Can You See?
Business success is driven by identifying where you want to go and figuring out how to get there step by step. How far can you see with your business? When was the last time you took out a few hours and really looked at where your business was headed…versus where you wanted it to go? […]
Now I can’t imagine not having a coach. Prior to hiring Chris,  I had heard of the concept of a business coach, but I didn’t know I needed one. Now I can’t imagine not having a coach. No matter how large our company grows, I expect to have a coach.