Tag: Business Growth

Lessons From a Crocodile Sighting

Having grown up near the Canadian border in Upstate New York I had never seen an alligator or a crocodile before. Those creatures were literally over 1,000 miles away. On my travels through southern Florida

Listening Intently To Our Customers Gives Us Clues to Improve Our Marketing

I was out for my early morning walk in the RV park I am temporarily staying at. There seemed to be a car following me at a distance. After a five minutes of this, I

Vince Lombardi Was Right

I am not a huge football fan. Never have been. At the risk of sounding shallow, I have gravitated to the home town teams, wherever I have called home. I am, however, a huge playoff

Time And Money

Last week I wrote about where to cut in tough times, and I talked about an attitude of thinking small: think paperclips. If you missed it you can catch it here. However, there is one thing

Think Paperclips

Foot surgery recovery continues to go well. In fact I am way ahead of last year’s timeline. The tough part is the mental struggle of not being able to workout. But, this too shall pass,

Hiring Winners, Part 6

Recovery room. The foot surgery went well. However, I would much prefer to be up and active rather than have all this downtime. But this will be a good time to catch up on some

Hiring Winners, Part 5

The negative effects of long-distance running on pavement have caught up to me, and today’s adventure was foot surgery. Ouch! I’ll be confined for a while, but as soon as the drugs wear off 🙂

Back To The Beginning

I’m off to visit a client’s gym in a few minutes. These meetings are so much fun, along with being very productive. I can’t wait! I’ve had some questions on the series I am doing

Hiring Winners, Part 3

There is a strategy to hiring winners and when I understood AND implemented the strategy, it was only a matter of weeks and everything turned around for the better. The most important strategy for picking