Your vision is your ‘big-picture why’ of what you are doing. The bigger your vision, the more compelling and exciting it is. Compelling and exciting attracts more people. People want to work on a project that is bigger than they are, that helps more people, that is exciting. They will engage in what you are […]
Gary Morton and Frances Schagen talk about values in this, our first podcast. Big Thank you to my son, Joe Schagen for doing the heavy lifting, all I had to do was talk.
Tony Hsieh of Zappos on values and why your values are important in your business.
Most of us have the values we all prize; and we have the values that are particular to us. Here is an exercise that will help you discover which values are important to you. This exercise will make you think and choose. You may get to a place where you don’t think you can make […]
There are values that are held as a society, as a community, within our religions, our industries, our interest groups. We adhere to these values, usually without even thinking about them. If we don’t we risk ostracism. We also have personal values. Our values underpin all we do. When we find ourselves ‘stuck’ it’s often […]
Making something bigger than you requires 2 elements: time and team. It takes time to build a big project. The decisions you make and the methods you use will be guided by the time frame you set. The way you go about it will be different if you are thinking in months or if you […]
I get my best ideas and solutions when I get plenty of sleep. Here we go on an epic journey together to making the best business and the best life we can. The business owners success club brings business owners together to help each other. Pass this along to other business owners you know and […]
This is wild… Gero Mesenboeck and his team have identified the neurons in the brain that are the inner voice. They have manipulated them to change the behaviour of flies. How does that change the way you think about self-talk? Here we go on an epic journey together to making the best business and the […]
This week, think about companies you admire. What do they look like? What do you admire about them? What industry are they in? How are they run? Think about the size they are. What size compared to yours? Think about the staff to revenue ratio. Is it similar to yours? Do you think you need […]
The Peter Principle of Projects: a project will grow to the level of incompetence of the leader(s). That means 2 things: If you want your project to grow you have to grow to stay ahead of it. If you want your project to grow even bigger, you have to get out of the way and […]
