As I have said before, New Year’s Day is my favorite day of the year. Fresh start, clean slate, blank canvas… call it whatever you want! I want to share a practice that uses the energy of the “blank canvas” and turns it into action. It’s been called “Painted Picture”,...
I said in a previous email the single most important habit we had at Appletree, the call center company I built, to scale our business was the daily huddle. What I want to share today may be the second most important. In fact, it might even be 1a important. The Weekly...
Often times when I’m talking with entrepreneurs, they are in the throes of business success BUT are also using heroic efforts to achieve their results. They are motivated by the success but exhausted by the energy being expended to reach those results. How many of you...
How do you know someone is a pilot? …they’ll tell you. (insert laughter here) 😀 As I mentioned in my intro, aviation is a passion of mine. I’ve been a pilot for 24 years and have learned many lessons about life, myself and business through flying. One of these...
I wanted to share a conversation I recently had with myself… I am watching the NFL wild card weekend under the relaxing glow of the lights from my Christmas tree. I suddenly realize it’s Sunday, January 15th and immediately start a self-interrogation that goes...
Sometimes beginning the work of installing an operating system for your company can be overwhelming. I often get asked “where do I start?” or “what should I do first?” While it can be dangerous to be prescriptive about where to start without some diagnostics on where...
