The Power of Empowering Others

The Power of Empowering Others

One of the biggest struggles I help business owners get over is the ability to effectively empower employees to do the job autonomously.  The idea is almost cliche at this point because the belief that it’s the right thing to do is widely held, but the practice of...
Cultivate Your Employees

Cultivate Your Employees

Creating significance in your business is accomplished through influencing, cultivating, and empowering others.  The concept of cultivating others, specifically your employees, is often and easily over looked as it becomes easy to feel you are moving too fast to stop...
Keep Your Head Up

Keep Your Head Up

One of the many things I do for fun is coach middle school track in the spring, and cross country in the fall.  I imagine one of the reasons I enjoy it so much is I get to help these kids become more disciplined, and learn to push themselves beyond what they thought...
Concentrations Kill Companies

Concentrations Kill Companies

By Laddie and Judy Blaskowski Have you ever noticed how many small businesses simply drop off the face of the earth? One day they’re open and successful, and the next day they’re gone. Every year a silent killer takes out thousands of businesses. This killer is called...
The Venn of Growth

The Venn of Growth

A Venn diagram is an diagram represents two or more separate sets of characteristics in the form of a circle, or other shape.  Where the shapes intersect it indicates that there is a shared set of characteristics.     The Venn of Growth is a Venn diagram that...