Posts Tagged ‘career’
Are You as Financially Successful as You Should Be?
Entrepreneurs open businesses for many reasons, but if they want to stay open, their primary reason for opening the doors should be financial success. As a business owner, do you know if you are truly achieving this goal? Sure, you may be making money, but do you know if you are truly successful financially? Most…
Read MoreThe Six Most Important Areas Of Your LIFE
You have some areas of your life that you OWN– meaning you have them down. Then, there are other areas where you struggle. You may have great health, but your business life suffers. You may have work or business down, but you struggle with your relationship with your spouse. Maybe your relationship with your wife…
Read MoreThe Weakness of One
I’ve discovered that the number one is the worst number in business. You don’t want to only have one product line or one customer. You don’t want to have only one source of revenue or be on only one network. We get ourselves in the most trouble however, when we have one employee who is over…
Read MoreGood Dog, Bad Dog!
I married Debbie Babbington on the island of Maui in 1980. A few weeks after we returned from our honeymoon, Steve, an old friend from high school, stopped by our house. Steve was a blue-collar, regular type of fella with a big heart. He carried a cardboard box and inside the box there was a…
Read MoreHow to Create Raving Fan Team Members
To create raving fan customers, create raving fan team members. I received this email yesterday from one of our customers: Dr. Reynolds, Your staff is wonderful. I hurt my knee and went to see your people last night. EVERYONE was friendly, empathetic, and informative. The x-ray tech had to come in from home…
Read MoreDon’t Get Caught Up in the BullSh*t
The purpose of your business is to support you and your lifestyle. Go back to why you started the business to begin with. What do you want? Was it to serve the community, you, your team, or some combination? What did you want your business to provide for you and your family? Back then, were you thinking about financial…
Read MoreShow Me the Money!
I asked my attorney friend (I know, I’m embarrassed, I have one too) how an attorney makes more money. He replied, “Well, I guess you become a better attorney.” I found this interesting so I started asking my other professional friends the same question. My accountant said, “Become a better accountant” and my surgeon friend…
Read MorePlaying by the Ballpark Rules
Most of our life we live playing in someone else’s ballpark. Simply put, we live by rules we didn’t create. Think about it. You drive a certain speed someone else set as the speed limit. You pay taxes someone else decided were the right amount. You have to obey rules at work that you didn’t…
Read MoreUnderstanding Your Competitors to Beat Them
Almost everyday someone comes up to me and tells me about something the competition is doing. They think we should change our pricing or our service or what we do in some way because of the way the competition is doing it. That has caused me to do a lot of thinking over the years…
Read MorePass the Decision Making Hat
In The Decision Maker, Dennis Bakke argues that in most organizations the leaders make the decisions. After all, they are the people most equipped to make the decisions, right? Dennis challenges that thought, and I’m going to ask you to do the same. Who in your business has the power, authority, and responsibility to make decisions?…
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