by Jim Schleckser | Aug 31, 2021 | Business, Culture, Entrepreneur, Leadership
Servant Leadership Principles: Do You Have What it Takes? People claim to be servant leaders, but are they? Here are five traits servant leaders share. I have written before about what it means to be a so-called “transformational leader” and how that helps...
by Jim Schleckser | Aug 24, 2021 | Culture, Entrepreneur, Growth, Leadership
Unlike popular belief, the best entrepreneurs understand how to make risk work for them. When you ask most people to use a word or phrase to describe entrepreneurs, you’ll often hear “risk-taker.” The perception is that most entrepreneurs are...
by Jim Schleckser | Apr 7, 2020 | Business, Decision Making, Entrepreneur, Leadership, Strategy
There’s an Easy Way to Calculate How Much You Should Be Making. You might be destroying wealth in your business without realizing it, but here’s how to stop Let me start by asking you what at first might seem like a silly question: Are you destroying...
by Jim Schleckser | Apr 17, 2019 | Delegation, Entrepreneur, Leadership, Management
As entrepreneurs who run growing companies, it’s tempting to operate your organization as lean and mean as you can. That’s why when it comes to hiring people, you tend to think in mainly terms of two categories: executives and individual contributors. We know we need...
by Jim Schleckser | Mar 7, 2019 | Delegation, Entrepreneur, Leadership, Management
Over the past few years, we have become accustomed to an extreme level of transparency in our lives. If you want to go shop for a new TV, for example, there are endless comparison sites online where you can compare everything from feature sets to the ease of set up...
by Jim Schleckser | Jan 8, 2019 | Budget, Business, Customers, Entrepreneur, Leadership
I recently received a fancy fitness monitor as a gift. It tracks my heart rate as well as a bevy of other stats about my body, everything from how much I sleep, how well I sleep, to how my heart rate changes during exercise. The amount of data now at my fingertips is...
