Business

If you know me well at all you know that I am crazy about understanding personality styles and the people they control. (Insert smiley face icon.) As I always say, if you’ve ever given someone direction on something and they just stand there looking at you with the deer in the headlights look, then you

There are many times in a leaders life that they ask themselves the question, “what the heck was I thinking when I hired that guy?!!” After the 17th person on your team tells you how difficult the new person is to work with, you start to realize there is something way more important than hiring

I have been speaking a lot lately about visions. Whether it’s talking with EntreLeadership Alumni in coaching sessions, or teaching Momentum around the country, or speaking to a bunch of pastors at the Catalyst conference. It is a topic where the lack of vision seems to be the reason for so many of the problems

Here’s another EntreLeadership Podcast question from one of our listeners: How do expand your business when you have saturated your original market? A market being saturated implies that the product can only be served by a presence in that market, and it can’t be done virtually. With that in mind, here are a few ways

Here’s an EntreLeadership Podcast question from Neal McGuire: How do you expand a small business, where the owners do most of the management and work, to a larger one, where not all the decisions are made by the owner and employees have less direct owner supervision? Expanding a business requires two things: Net Profit –

Here are my Top 10 September 2011 posts according to your clicks and forwards. Each of the top 10 commenters will receive a free copy of EntreLeadership by Dave Ramsey. Two of the top 10 posts are guest posts. Read this to guest post as well. Special thanks to Michael Hyatt for his continued support,

Here’s another question from an EntreLeadership Podcast listener: One business question that I’d love to hear discussed is at what size of business do you start to worry about your business’s environmental impact? And how much money do you spend to reduce your environmental footprint? Is a certain amount of money spent on showing how

If someone consistently generates revenue for your company, that role should be commissioned—plain and simple. It defies common sense not to. But what about all the other roles that don’t directly bring in revenue? That’s where profit-sharing comes in. In my posts How To Do Profit-Sharing and How To Do Profit-sharing Pt 2 , I

I happened to stop at a sandwich shop the other day. It’s a great chain with delicious sandwiches. As I walked in, I quickly realized I was the only customer. But it was after lunch, so I bet it was hoppin’ a bit earlier. Three young folks were working: two guys making sandwiches and one

Here is an inspiring guest post by Chadrick Black, author of The Greatest Harvest. You can follow him on Facebook. You can guest post, as well! Read how to here. “We often talk to and treat others the way we talk to and treat ourselves.” The above statement enters my mind each time I observe