Entrepreneurs Squeezed Out in the Middle

Entrepreneurs are passionate about their business, employees, and clients and about their family, friendships, and life. Yet they often squeeze themselves out in the middle. You are worth self-care. Do things 100% just for yourself to fill your personal gas tank and build your resiliency.

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Culture Resources

A powerful way to create a high performing business is to live a set of core values every day. There are two parts to living your core values:

  1. Discovering the ones that exist and documenting them.
  2. Having concrete actions that bring your core values alive every day.

A client recently asked me for resources on core values in business. Here are the ones I shared.

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My Process to Achieve High Performance and Growth-Building

You can learn a lot from my second podcast interview with Lois Sonstegard on her Building My Legacy Podcast. Find out:

  • How to create high growth, high performing businesses.
  • The benefits of using the Verne Harnish One Page Strategic Plan.
  • How planning 3-5 years ahead and working backwards is extremely effective.
  • Strategic planning is a process that requires an entrepreneur and their team to get off site every quarter.
  • When doing strategic planning, focus on the wins (what’s working) and then the challenges.
  • High performing businesses have clear who, what, and when lists for the senior executive team.
  • Key Performance Indicators give you real-time feedback about how your business is doing.
  • Every employee needs to know week by week how their work is contributing to the corporate goals for the quarter. (more…)

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Video: Are you accountable as an entrepreneur?

Many of us own a business so that we can maximize our flexibility. While a business can offer that, more often we need to be accountable in order to get to the ultimate goals we have for our business and ourselves. In this video I talk about three ways I think entrepreneurs need to be accountable in their business, so that they can get what they want.

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