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“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.”
W. Edwards Deming

Herein lies the foundational problem when it comes to running a business. Most business owners, leaders, key executives can’t definitively describe the process for building a business.

Granted they have great ideas, work [...]

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I've concluded that the single most important thing a business can do to improve itself is to become a systems driven organization. This simply means that the key to successful execution of every activity, and subsequent result, is a system, process or procedure.   It doesn't matter what a business is [...]

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Business owners have trust issues. It's true! If you feel trapped in someway by your business or don't believe your business can work without you – you have trust issues.   What exactly do we need to trust in order to establish freedom? What do we need to trust so we can [...]

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My 14 year old daughter Maddison has been dancing since she was 4 or 5. She is quite good, I think. At very least I enjoy watching her. I enjoy watching her mature in her technique and abilities.   Last weekend she participated in a dance competition with her team. It's [...]

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The Best Exit Strategy

On January 20, 2011 By

I had a great conversation at lunch yesterday with a couple clients in the process of implementing the Level 7 System in their businesses. Joe Cerino of HAR Adhesive Technologies and Hank Newman of Recon Logistics and I were talking about "exit strategies."   We agreed that "exit strategies" can [...]

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Many business owners are like the dog 'Dug' from the movie UP. They, like Dug, are going along, doing business, on task, focused on their goals and critical business tasks and all of a sudden…

 

Something draws their attention away.

SQUIRREL!

They lose focus, perhaps for a moment. Perhaps [...]

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The average person, I have read, gives up on their New Year's Resolution by the 18th of January.   Watch what happens in the gym around that time. The place, which is now packed with people committed to getting back in shape, will look like ghost town in about 3 weeks. That's just one example. [...]

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I had a great meeting with a client this morning. We were discussing the nature of leadership and the results and impact really, really good leadership can have on a business.

One of the partners, Phil, who is a natural coach, having been involved in competitive sports most his life and now [...]

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Getting Out of Your Rut

On October 13, 2010 By

Remember the movie Groundhog Day with Bill Murray? If you didn't see the movie, Phil, the character Murray played, lived the same day over and over. He would wake up at 6 am everyday and the course of events that took place around him was identical to the day before. The only difference was him. [...]

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You Betta Think…

On September 22, 2010 By

You better think (think) think about what you're trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think), let your mind go, let yourself be free…

…Oh freedom (freedom), freedom (freedom), freedom, yeah freedom [...]

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