An Introduction to Shiny Object Syndrome We will keep this post short. That is for two reasons. We respect yout time, and we know how valuable that time is to your business.If you are like most business owners, it might be easy to distract you fro—Ooh, what’s over there?! We cannot speak to the legitimate …
Who’s Your Boss Let’s be honest: many of us chose to start our own businesses — or rise to the top — due in no small part to our lack of desire to work for someone else. Put simply, we like being the boss. But it is easy to forget that you must be your …
Never Stop Learning A while back, Forbes published a list of traits of highly successful entrepreneurs. One of them caught our eye: curiosity. Curiosity is, indeed, a critical entrepreneurial trait. We are not talking about the kind of curiosity that creates shiny object syndrome (where you are constantly getting distracted by hypothetical product and service …
Encourage Candor Can your employees be completely honest with you? Most business owners assume the answer is a resounding yes. But are you sure? Unless you’ve actively cultivated an environment of full transparency and candor around your office, the real answer is likely to be something different. A closed-dialogue work environment can have serious ramifications. Encouraging Candor …
Gravity Time Isaac Newton couldn’t have seen it coming, but gravity time is an increasingly important concept in business. Gravity time is about creating super focused moments of teamwork and collaboration as opposed to requiring that everyone on your team work in close physical proximity on a regular basis. Working from home is more popular …
The Midwest Mindset For everyone who thinks the Midwest is simply a cluster of flyover states, take note: the Midwest mindset could be the secret to better business performance. What is the Midwest mindset? According to a recent feature in Entrepreneur, the Midwest mindset is all about hard work, sweat equity, efficiency, and—above all—smart, deliberate growth. The feature’s …
Ask Why Do you spend so much time finding out what is happening that you neglect to find out why? Ask Why To Stay On Top Of The Big Stuff As a business owner, it’s your job to stay on top of the big stuff. After all, business owners are often big-picture visionaries. And for practical purposes, you …
Trust, but Verify We’ve written before about how small businesses are disproportionately vulnerable to fraud. It’s hard for a lot of business owners to believe. After all, the very nature of a small business means that you’re surrounded with a limited number of people with whom you probably have relatively close connections and lots of …
Avoid One-Size-Fits-All Business Solutions No two businesses are exactly alike. Whether your points of differentiation center on brand personality, geography, pricing structure, size, or the fact that you bring fresh cookies to every meeting, you do something that sets you apart from the competition. If you’re not a carbon copy company, why do you rely on carbon …
Take Care of Yourself You met payroll for your staff. You made all the deadlines on your accounts payable. You have enough inventory (but not too much). You made much-needed upgrades to your computer system. That’s wonderful. Now what about you? Did you pay yourself? Did you pay yourself enough? We find that a lot …
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