The next disruption: Cost Control A perfect storm of macroeconomic impacts from the pandemic could challenge the ambition and agility of businesses in the ‘next normal’. Rising inflation, interest, and taxes combined with shortages in supply chains and labor markets is creating a potential tsunami of cost control issues not seen since the late 1970’s. Deferred or … [Read more...] about A Perfect Storm?
Entrepreneurship
A Full Life
How can we live a full life without defining what full means to us? full - definition : 1. containing or holding as much or as many as possible; having no empty space. 2. not lacking or omitting anything; complete. What does it mean to live a full life? For thousands of years mankind has contemplated the definition of a full and … [Read more...] about A Full Life
The Useful and the Useless
All around us there are things that are useful and useless. In our normal course of being we seek out uses for the useful things to enrich our life and discard the useless things that cannot help us achieve the limited goals we set. But the truest power and wisdom comes from the examination of those things the world sees as useless. To find use for the … [Read more...] about The Useful and the Useless
The F-Bomb: The first of many F-Words to come
F-words to master when designing a beautifully balanced life. My entrepreneurial journey started about 20 years ago, when I set in motion a plan for my future. It went something like this: quit my job, start my own consulting firm, make tons of money, sell the business and live a fabulous life. A simple five phase plan, but it had one major flaw. I had … [Read more...] about The F-Bomb: The first of many F-Words to come
Measures that Matter in Life
Yesterday I officially became 'over the hill', celebrating my 51st birthday. Birthday's are always those melancholy moments to reflect on the past and reimagine the future. This morning I asked myself what kind of halftime adjustments I should make to finish the second half of life. I began to contemplate the 'performance measures' of a life well-lived. For me those are … [Read more...] about Measures that Matter in Life
Using FEAR to Propel Your Business Forward
The scariest roller coaster in the world cannot compare with the fears associated with managing your own business. Owning a business is filled with many things to be afraid of, at every stage of your business, whether the business is struggling or wildly successful. Entrepreneurs carry the full weight and burden of their company, family, employees, customers, stakeholders, … [Read more...] about Using FEAR to Propel Your Business Forward
Where is the FREEDOM Expected from Entrepreneurship
Nobody starts their business with the thought of: “ I am going to spend the best years of my life, managing employees, creating business plans, attending meetings, making phone calls, managing finances, stressing about growth, and raising capital. I am going to do all this work to make customers happy at the expense of my own happiness, just to make some … [Read more...] about Where is the FREEDOM Expected from Entrepreneurship
F.A.I.L with discipline and frequency
The one F-word that no entrepreneur wants to hear, say, or talk about is failure. We avoid it, hide it, refuse to speak about it. But some of the best ideas, from the most spectacular entrepreneurs, are born from failure. Google it...I dare you not to be inspired by reading the results of that search. Failure is the only quantitative measure of true entrepreneurship, it is … [Read more...] about F.A.I.L with discipline and frequency
Psychological Price of Entrepreurship
This is a great article telling the cold hard truth about entrepreneurship and the toll it takes on people. The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship … [Read more...] about Psychological Price of Entrepreurship
What Entrepreneurs lack most: FOCUS
Owning a business has never been a 9 to 5 job, for most it is a 24/7 continuous occupation of your mind. There is a never ending supply of tasks, projects, meetings, and distractions that every entrepreneur has to deal with on a daily basis. The most common phrases I hear from those struggling to build their business are "there aren't enough hours in the day" or "I need more … [Read more...] about What Entrepreneurs lack most: FOCUS