The answer might tell you a lot about how to think about your role as its leader. Do you know what stage of organizational growth your business is in? As a CEO you want to identify your business’s stage of growth, so you can lead from the front. One area that...
Why You Can’t Raise $5 Million For Your Startup When I’m working with the CEOs of startups, our conversations focus on what the business needs to achieve success. Specifically, business funding, how much money they think they need to move from an idea or...
Think of Location as a Tool We have all been participants in a grand experiment over the past few years. Forced to work from home because of the pandemic, many people who may have been resistant in the past have opened their eyes to the potential of working remotely....
Negotiation Tips: Flinch, Reflect, and Go Silent A Simple Technique to Get a Concession There are plenty of standard methodologies and techniques people rely on when it comes to handling negotiations, in everything from haggling over a yard sale purchase all the way...
Appropriately Scaling Growth Comes From Hiring Ordinary People into a System. In the early days of any company, you need to solve problems by hiring the absolute best person you can who can tackle them. For example, if you’re trying to ramp up sales fast, you...
What Does Your View of a Work-Life Balance Look Like? When I have conversations about entrepreneurial companies with bankers, it’s pretty common to hear bankers look down on some businesses as “just a lifestyle business.” The bankers are saying that...
