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We are in the process of buying another business and we aren’t ready. We own five businesses and are overwhelmed and overworked. Our finances aren’t perfect, our businesses…

It is a simple rule that I think we should all live by in our professions: Women and men should be in top leadership positions in proportion to what is reflective of their…

We accept that the risk is better than homelessness or institutionalization…and that is all we really need to know. When people think of someone with an intellectual or…

This funny thing happened when we became a “large company” — People started suing us. Maybe we looked differently, or spoke differently, or smelled differently……smelled like…

Endings are a process of emotional reconciliation. Resigning from a job is like breaking up with your partner. There are lots of spoken and unspoken feelings. It feels intense…

I know this blog post is going to get some electronic tomatoes thrown in my direction….. Meh… cue shoulder shrug . That said, here comes the first leadership truth: #1: You…

What I have learned about an effective entourage is that they are not “followers” — They are actually the leaders that manage the CEO. Entourages aren’t just for divas, though…

I hate being tackled. As the CEO, I am the default quarterback. I am scanning the field and planning my next step. I’m developing a strategy and then pivoting it at the last…

No, I’m not talking about color schemes and font styles. I’m talking about not tolerating bullshit. A “management brand” is the way you manage performance issues as a…

We don’t stop when we are tired. We stop when we are done. I recently binge-watched all four seasons of Vikings on the History channel over the course of a week. I stayed…

We don’t stop when we are tired. We stop when we are done. I recently binge-watched all four seasons of Vikings on the History channel over the course of a week. I stayed…

We don’t stop when we are tired. We stop when we are done. I recently binge-watched all four seasons of Vikings on the History channel over the course of a week. I stayed…

We don’t stop when we are tired. We stop when we are done. I recently binge-watched all four seasons of Vikings on the History channel over the course of a week. I stayed…

If you are an entrepreneur like me, you might struggle with vacations. I am the person that gets sad on Fridays because I won’t be able to experience maximum work capacity until…

Competition raises the bar of service delivery to customers…AND services to employees. It is kind of a nice world in a job seeker’s market, eh? If you are the employer, it…

When I started my first company I had no idea what unemployment insurance was. Nobody in my family had ever filed for unemployment as they had all owned their own businesses and…

Numbers don’t lie. Stop asking your team what problems they are experiencing and start instead focusing them on analyzing the numbers to TELL them what the problems are. To…

My mother was an intense business owner — I learned from the best. I remember a rude customer that walked through her store, belittling all of her staff and fellow customers in…

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I recently experienced the first time that an employee had been hired, worked in a position for a significant amount of time and then left the company before I had the chance to…