Zoom In

What transactional details are going on every day in your business that ultimately add up to customer satisfaction, cost of doing business, overall efficiency and profitability.

Can you make adjustments to the “small” stuff on the front lines?

Zoom Out

Adjust the aperture of your mind and zoom out. Rise above yourself and look down. Do you see yourself there?

What are you doing? Why are you doing it? What direction is that taking you and your business?

Know yourself

When you get a feeling, an itching, a hankering, a desire, a distaste, satisfaction or an urge, notice and ask why that is.  

When you know your own personality style, talents, and values you understand how you are rubbing up against the world and causing your own reality.  You’ll understand more about why you do what you do, and how you can be a better leader.

Know yourself.

What are your priorities?

You can tell by what you are spending your time on.

What’s that?

You get the employees you deserve

People are your mirror.  You “BE” one kind of leader, and certain kinds of people find you.

Certain ones leave, and certain ones stay.

Good leaders attract good people and have good businesses.  A bad leader can’t do that.

What kind of team do you deserve?

Your Business Recipe

You’re in the kitchen and you mix ingredients and get a result.  You take out one ingredient and put another in, and you get a different version.  Then you take another ingredient out, and add two more, and get a different result.

Your business is not much different.  What result do you want?  What do you need to take out?  What do you need to add?

Asking the right questions

Leaders go to work on their businesses each day and focus on what they think they should.  But their work only answers questions they know to ask.  This is how we get stuck.

We need outside influences to ask new and different questions that we wouldn’t, to affect the direction of our focus.

Do you have that outside influence making you think in ways you wouldn’t have otherwise?

Deep, Focused Work

Some work is social – interacting with others. Some work is transactional. These are great, and need to be done.

But redesigning your business to solve its most important problems and releasing future success is not done this way.  It requires uninterrupted focused thought – studying to see it right, to learn, asking the right questions for clarity, and coming up with a strategy and a clear well structured plan.

Deep work – rare and more valuable.

Do you, can you, should you “go deep”?

Outside the comfort zone

That’s where all progress takes place.  

Are you in, or out?

Lifetime Results

Entrepreneurs can’t look at their tax return at the end of the year to tell how they are doing financially.  Results don’t come in tidy calendar year packages.  

An entrepreneur spends the beginning part of their career being desperately underpaid, so that in a wild gamble, IF they can make it work out, they can spend the last part of their career being wildly overpaid.

The hockey stick transcends annual boundaries, preferring to show itself, if it is caused to be shown, over decades.