The fall of each year we look at the various holidays coming up. Thanksgiving is one where we take a look at our lives and express our thanks. This year I want to express it in a different way. This year I want to talk about our thanks for a…

This last couple of years have challenged almost everyone I know. Doesn’t matter if they are a business owner, manager, worker, social service provider, sport fanatic, performer. It could be that the challenge is how to keep up. More likely it is how to keep from reaching bottom. …

Good decision making has some of all three elements, gut feeling, analytics and experience. Recently on Quora, someone posted a really great question to think about. It is real life, topical, timely and can have profound consequences to you and your business. The question was “To make a decision final, business decision, do you use your gut feeling, analytic skills or experience?” Gut feeling…

You can spend so much time getting more knowledgable, technically, but it can take you away from your business which is what actually brings in the profits. You might be saying to yourself, “This guy is always talking about learning more. Where is he going now? This doesn’t make sense.” …

Everything changed when I realized street smarts and luck only go so far. My career and business have either stalled or gone ​sideways when I stopped learning or taken what I have learned for granted. And learning doesn’t necessarily mean going to college. Education and learning have two different meanings…

Start up businesses tend to be characterized by “go-go”. Get your business going, starting shipping, work out the bugs later, make improvements, get it out there again, come up with a complimenting product, get that going, hire, expand, and on and on. This can also happen when a younger family…

There is a Dark Side of Success that you don’t hear about much. You hear the rags to riches stories of people like Elon Musk or Mark Cuban. They will tell you that there was hard work all along the way. …

When we concentrate on our business, we can forget about what is happening outside and around us. We can raise our own self defense mechanisms to blot out potential danger that could be lurking outside of our door. …

When you are growing your business, whether it’s from 2 to 5 people or to 10 or more than 20, and even going from 250 to 500 people, there is an ugly truth that you need to deal with to successfully scale your business. Issue — When your company grows…