Month: June 2025
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A Guide for Good Meetings
Executing Quality Meetings Now that we’ve tackled the organizational chart for your business, we can move on to managing the org chart. The best tool for managing people in any company? Meetings. “A meeting is nothing less than the medium through which managerial work is performed. That means we should not be fighting their very existence, but…
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Right People, Right Seats (Part 2: Org Chart)
Systems and processes are a beautiful thing when executed properly. Today, we’re covering an ops playbook for managing your team. I’ll credit Jim Collins in Good to Great for the “right people, right seats” concept and Gino Wickman in Traction for the accountability chart tool. A quick overview of each: 1) Why does this matter? Your organizational chart is the single…
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Right People, Right Seats (Part 1: Management)
Most companies have 3 “senior leadership” seats with different roles to play. These are usually known as your management team: Notice how I said every business has these 3 seats, but not necessarily 3 (different) people sitting in them. Most business owners wear all 3 of these hats until the business reaches a certain size…
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Connect, Collaborate, & Conquer: Expand Your Network, Grow Your Profits
Over the weekend, I went to a trade show and met a number of very interesting people working on very interesting projects. One conversation went down the rabbit hole of the benefits (tangible and intangible) of networking. We agreed it best to approach networking from the standpoint of curiosity and learning (what’s your story? what…
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Founder Mode vs. Manager Mode
When it comes to managing a business, there are typically 2 schools of thought with staunch defenders on each side: (The latter is sometimes referred to as micromanagement.) In his recent article Founder Mode, Paul Graham (founder of startup incubator, Y Combinator) compares the hands-on management approach (Founder Mode) with the traditional delegation approach (Manager Mode).…
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Getting Started on the Financial Journey
Let’s say you’re running a business and have a pretty good handle on: But when you open up the bank account or QuickBooks? Stopped dead in your tracks. I was there too at one point. Below, I’ll share a 7-point list of where you should start on your financial journey (whether 1st inning or 8th…