business success
What Message Are Your Clothes Sending? – with Anne Marie Dubois
As a CEO, you choose your words with care… knowing that what you say and how you say it will impact your results with clients, employees, vendors and more. But do you select your clothes as carefully? For many business owners, the answer is “no.” Sure, you strive to look professional. But you probably aren’t…
Six Foolproof Ways to Keep Your Energy Bank Full
Do you sometimes feel like your business is draining you of energy and you have nothing left in the tank for family, friends, and having fun? The first step to reclaiming your true self in business and in life is to find out where the energy leaks reside so that you can begin to repair them.…
A Proven Method to Stop the Business Bottlenecks in Your Company
You’ve put years of blood, sweat, and tears into your business. You continue to devote everything you have—time, freedom, and money—to ensure that things get done exactly the way that you want them done. Your blood, sweat, and tears might have been crucial to getting things started, and even now, you feel like you donate…
Taking the Leap
What does flying on the trapeze have to do with scaling a business? The need to take a massive leap, of course! Far too many business owners play it small and safe, because they’re afraid to leap into the unknown. But they pay a massive price – the loss of millions (even billions) of dollars……
The Five Phases of Scaling—in a Nutshell
As you scale your business, your ultimate goal is to shift from being “the boss” to becoming a leader. Your end game is to remove yourself from the equation and build a self-managed company. Your role as the founder is to let go of the day-to-day, to strategize and build relationships to supercharge growth, and to…
Creating Your Big Picture Vision
Can you quickly and easily describe where you want your company to be 3 to 5 years from now? Chances are… no. For most entrepreneurs, defining their vision is something they’ll get to “later” – after all the fires have been put out and to-do lists are completed. (But we all know that never happens,…
Celebrate Both Work and Life with the 3 P’s of Planning
In my last blog installment, I presented you with the gift of a free month. Now I am going to share with you the secret of how to maximize the time of the eleven “working” months—and also reap the rewards of the free twelfth. The Three Ps of Planning—Prep Days, Pinnacle Days, and Play Days—help you…
Getting Time on Your Side: The Gift of a Personal Bonus Month
What would you do if you had an extra month per year? How would you spend all of that extended free time? Live in your bathing suit on the beach, write your memoir, spend more time with your friends or loved ones, learn how to play the flute, or fly on the trapeze? I’m about to…
The 5 Phases to Building a Team-Managed Company
“I want to get my business to the next level…but I feel STUCK.”Can you relate? What many CEOs don’t realize is that there are 5 phases of business evolution… and just as we humans must follow a steady, predictable progression from infants to adults, our businesses MUST go through all 5 phases. Feeling stuck means…