We all use various filters as a way to process what goes on in our worlds.  These filters are based on core beliefs and usually they are applied subconsciously, without us evening noticing.  And although it sounds like a really subtle, small thing – it turns out those beliefs and filters can have a huge […]

You never know what you might discern during a good father-daughter project.  Here’s something that came to me in a recent project of my own. In life and business we all can be impacted by foggy lenses.     In the early 1990’s the auto industry started switching from glass lens headlights to plastic lens covers.  […]

The world has changed immensely in the last 20 years.  Think about it this way – in September of 1998, 20 years ago, 2 guys with laptops founded Google.  They reached a $1 Billion market capitalization in about 8 years and Google is currently worth over $700 Billion…! To put that in perspective – historically […]

Do you have a great team?  How do know? In his recent book The Culture Code, author Daniel Coyle suggests a pretty simple test to tell whether or not you’ve got a healthy culture that’s supporting a high performance team.  The suggestion actually comes from one of the many great teams that he studied as […]

Just this past week, we kicked off our new strategic advisory group that we call the Growth Council.  In a nutshell it’s a group of 12 business owners, across different industries, with different size businesses who are all interested in learning how to successfully scale their business.  As a group, we’ll be doing a few […]

Sometimes an idea comes along that changes how you think about things… Brothers Chip Heath and Dan Heath are research driven academics who have written some remarkable books over the last 10 years and their latest book is no exception.  The authors of Made to Stick, Decisive and Switch have turned their attention to a […]