New Year New Vision and New Goals Business Consultant Gary Furr provides some advice on having a clear vision and goals to achieve a significant improvement in our businesses in 2015, and provides a FREE Business Plan Listen to an interview with Gary discussing the importance of a clear vision and focus in order to reach… Read More »
Make 2015 Your Best Year Ever
MAKE 2015 YOUR BEST YEAR EVER! As we start a New Year, it is a good time to reflect on 2014, and ask ourselves some serious questions. Our goal is to make 2015 a much better year then 2014. But we can’t keep doing the same things over and over and expect different results. We… Read More »
Six Tips for a Successful 2015
Six Tips for a Successful 2015 With Christmas and the New Year fast approaching, it’s time to think about what we can do to have a great 2015. Without a clear direction for our business, it is unlikely we will achieve the results we desire. The… Read More »
Do you have enough Grit?
Do You Have Enough Grit To Make It As An Entrepreneur? Forbes; Entrepreneurs December 1, 2014; David K. Williams Certain words invoke powerful images in the mind—and “grit” is one of those words. When we associate grit with someone, it goes far beyond just being tough. It’s that something extra in the face of adversity. Through… Read More »
A Comprehensive Approach to Innovation
A Comprehensive Approach to Innovation Conceiving of, developing, and launching new offerings is an inherently risky undertaking. By combining the risk-reduction ideas that innovation thinkers and practitioners have developed over the years, we can map out an end-to-end process that can greatly increase the odds of successfully launching innovative offerings in uncertain markets. This… Read More »
Rescue the Problem Project
Rescue the Problem Project I recently read and would like to highly recommend Todd Williams book, “Rescue the Problem Project” Todd gives great guidance and sound advice in accurately assessing and dealing with troubled projects. He is an experienced practitioner who has been involved with turning around hundreds of failing projects. Practical Advice Todd gives… Read More »
Adopt a Mindset of Optimization
Adopt the Mindset of Optimization As CEO’s and owners of our companies, we need to elevate our mindset and obsess about getting more from our current resources and efforts. We must ask others and ourselves better questions. We must start to ask ourselves, “How can our businesses get greater results from every action we take,… Read More »
Don’t be Scared of Your Business this Halloween
DON’T BE SCARED OF YOUR BUSINESS THIS HALLOWEEN: 5 TRICKS FOR ELIMINATING FEAR Have you noticed that when Halloween arrives, we tend to look for scarier moments the older we get? When we’re little Halloween means putting on that princess or ghost costume, going door-to-door and getting candy. When we’re a teenager, it’s about pulling… Read More »
Adopt a Big-Picture Perspective
“The best plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why and how much.”-Paula Nelson Be an Effective Leader To be an effective CEO and leader, we must adopt a big-picture perspective. As a leader it’s important that we don’t over complicate our businesses. Keep it simple and straightforward. Simplicity allows for… Read More »
Leadership, the link in the chain
Effective Leadership helps to strengthen the links in the organizational chain Leadership and People Management Recently I conducted a workshop on people management. In preparing for the workshop I came across a diagram of how our employees affect our business results. Basically it described how employee beliefs will affect employee attitudes and actions. Those employee… Read More »