Posts in category Develop Strong Teams

Epic Projects and Buying Groceries

Epic Projects and Buying Groceries

I have a confession to make. I’m one of those people who can’t work on only one project at a time. My comfortable number seems to be 3. I’ve been that way for years. I’m also an innovator. You know, someone who craves seeking out new ideas and trying them. I learn lots. I get […]

Strength in Teams

Strength in Teams

Strengths-based leadership is about building a team where everyone works from their strengths and everything gets done well. It’s so easy it feels like cheating. When it’s our turn, we breeze through the work we have to do while, of course, doing our best work because the pressure is on. Then we watch while others […]

The Midas Touch

The Midas Touch

Midas Touch: why some entrepreneurs get rich and why most don’t by Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki I read a lot of business books and most are full of great information. In this book, the authors have presented information from the trenches in a way that is practical and useable. They talked about business concepts […]

How I did with the 100 Day Project

How I did with the 100 Day Project

I started my 100 day project on September 14 so it would end on December 20. Here’s the original post. My objective was to focus on my businesses; to figure out where they can go and to set it up so they will. I outlined 3 business ideas: Crystal Clear Bookkeeping Ltd, this Business Owners […]

What Does it Take to Make an Effortle...

What Does it Take to Make an Effortless Business?

It comes down to 4 things: KNOWN You know where you are and where you are going.  You know how to do what you want to do.  You know when to ask for help and from whom. You know your why.  Your Business Model is clear.  You have policies and procedures in place that everyone […]

Doing What We Love

Doing What We Love

My strengths (according to Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath) are everything about looking at a situation, gathering necessary information, looking to the future, figuring out the highest and best use of available resources and plotting the next steps to get there. Futuristic Learner (I don’t just like learning, I crave it.  It’s why I […]

Favourite Customers

Favourite Customers

Our favourite business Owners are the ones that engage in their financials as a way to understand their business better.  They use them to make decisions about what’s working what isn’t and where improvements can be made.  Our favourite Business Owners stop and chat with us about how they are doing, about what their plans […]

Founder’s Role Discussion

Founder’s Role Discussion

This post evolved as I wrote it over the past week or so and I learned, as I wrote it.  It starts in one place and ends up in another.  I should fix it so it tells one story, but I’m going to leave it as is.  Consider it like we are having a conversation […]

Instigating a Business

Instigating a Business

I have, what I think is a very cool idea for a new business I’m calling Repair-Share.  I’ve put it out there and I’m talking about it to people.   People are responding enthusiastically to the concept, but that is just the start.  As I work on it and begin to develop the idea, I’m making […]

My social media mix

My social media mix

BLOG I started the Business Owners Success Club blog in 2006 to support the offline group I had.  We met during the first week of the month to work through a workbook I prepared.  By the end of the session, we would have several tasks we had each chosen to help us implement the topic […]