Case Study #16: Doubling Down on the Value of You

Apr 18, 2018 | Case Studies

In 2011 Dan Bradbury was building a company called Business Growth Systems that taught marketing to small business owners. They would hold seminars explaining how to build infrastructure to create and track demand for products and services.  Often those seminars...

Considerations When Forming a Business with Multiple Partners

Apr 12, 2018 | General

In a previous article we discussed things to ponder when considering a business partnership. In this article, we’re going to deepen and broaden the conversation by considering the question from the aspect of bringing on multiple partners.   Partnerships continue...

Delegation Isn’t Sufficient: You Have to Trust, As Well

Apr 3, 2018 | General

Delegation. It’s one of the surest and most necessary components of the growth of any business, yet it’s sometimes looked at too simplistically.   “You get to do this now,” only works if your colleague or employee knows he/she has your trust. Without that trust, what...

Book Club #15: Extreme Ownership: How US Navy Seals Lead and Win, by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

Mar 27, 2018 | Book Club

Many business books have the same formula: Identify a problem Show your unique way of solving the problem Do so within 300 pages or fewer This means that there’s a predictable comfort with such books. But it also means only a very few go on to become truly...

Equity or Profit Sharing? What’s the Right Way to Reward Employees?

Mar 19, 2018 | General

In today’s competitive marketplace, it’s important to consider key differentiators for your company when it comes to attracting (and more importantly, retaining) key members of your team.   Both equity and profit sharing send the signal that “You’re a direct part of...