Leaders, and their companies, go through stages of development. In order to become a company that consistently outperforms the...

Who likes firing people? Pretty much no one. Firing a person is confrontational, traumatic, scary, sad and plain hard. In the movie...

Running a business is tough. Having worked with hundreds of businesses over the past several decades, I know there is no end to the...

How is culture created in a new company? One of the tools that we can use to create a long-term attitude, particularly in a startup, is...

Bob had a profitable company that he had built up over 25 years. He knew how to run it on instinct. Are we going to be tight on cash?...

EOS or the Entrepreneurial Operating System is a system for helping companies run more effectively that is widely marketed in the United...

We all have times in our business where we need to come-up with a creative solution to a challenge. Sometimes the challenge is about...

The task of management is to change behaviors. If one of your employees has been missing a production goal, then you may want to change...

Most managers would like to be more effective in persuading people to take action. However, the longer the delay between the person...

When we think of the armed forces, many times we think about a drill sergeant yelling at the new recruits. While this approach is...

Recently I was working with a company that was automating an industrial process. The founding group had come together over about six...

Startups face many risks. Too many to count. But, that's the nature of a startup! While the risks vary greatly among the many startups,...

Pat had a distribution business that was struggling. The business was started almost 10 years earlier. At first the business had grown...

One startup I was working with had an amazing technology and a really sharp entrepreneur, Barry (not their real name). As they moved from...

Two partners came to me with a company that had flat revenue for three consecutive years with little profits. They were frustrated and...

Compaq Computer set records for the fastest company to $1 Billion in sales and was an amazing enterprise. The videos below are an...

After a company has determined their basic business model, most businesses (like a classic lemonade stand) focus on three key things:...

Traditionally, friends and family provided the initial funding for an idea. If things went well, perhaps angel investors and perhaps a...

One day I had lunch with Mack, a manager at a light manufacturing company. He told me he was frustrated with the supervisors in his...

One time I received a call from a very small services company that said they needed some help. As I talked to the owner / CEO (let's call...