by Jim Schleckser | Jun 29, 2021 | Business, Strategy
Knowing how ‘breakeven’ is defined can keep you in business. When I ask business leaders how their business is doing, I’ll often get a response that goes something like, “Well, we’re breaking even.” Most of us have an intuitive...
by Jim Schleckser | Apr 20, 2021 | Growth, Leadership, Strategy
Everyone Wants to Develop Revenue Streams Developing new revenue streams is always a business challenge. Developing a long-term growth strategy requires imagination, creativity, and a significant amount of focus. Knowing how to manage your growth while ensuring your...
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 | Aug 29, 2017 | Business, Culture, Strategy
If your behavior doesn’t match your strategy, you send mixed messages to the rest of the organization. Helping choose your company’s strategy is one of the key roles any business leader plays. But if our behaviors don’t match up with that strategy,...
by Jim Schleckser | Oct 6, 2015 | Business, Decision Making, Entrepreneur, Growth, Strategy
Great strategy isn’t what separates the great companies from all the rest. It’s executing a simple strategy in a highly repeatable way that returns quality to customers and value to investors that makes them truly stand apart. Everyone loves strategy....
by Jim Schleckser | Mar 10, 2015 | Business, Decision Making, Delegation, Entrepreneur, Leadership, Strategy
One of the most important jobs any leader does is decide what issues to tackle inside the organization at any given time. But how do you choose which ones are the most critical? Risk is a major component in deciding what comes first. Consider the analogy of a naval...
