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Ep. 97 – Assess, Align, Actuate
When you work towards your business goals, what is guaranteed is that either you’ll meet them or you won’t. That much is obvious. When the target is met or the time is up, what then? What’s the reset step to keep moving forward?
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Ep. 96 – A Framework to Work Toward Your Goals
Big goals require small steps. You don’t want the lack of a “how” to keep the “if” from turning into a “when.” The principle is there, and you can go about it whatever way suits you. But here’s a little framework that might be of help.
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Ep. 95 – Big Goals Demand Small Steps
Most people have more aspirations than actions. There are, of course, different reasons why somebody doesn’t act on what they aspire towards. Here’s an approach to consider when trying to connect actions with aspirations.
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Ep. 94 – Don’t Make Them Wait
Waste Number 4. The Waste of Waiting refers to a customer waiting for anything. Here’s some of the why and what and how as pertains to making customers wait, and why the biggest loser in the game of waiting is you, the business owner.
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Ep. 93 – Don’t Be Pushy
There is something consultants like to call “the Pull System,” originally known as Kanban. The word Kanban has been hijacked by online productivity personalities, and utilized for a way to organize your tasks to flow. It sort of revolves around the idea, except with one huge difference that’s crucial to the entire idea of how…
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Ep. 92 – You Know What To Do
What is a business owner to do when he feels like he’s stuck? The context is, of course, very relevant. And, like in all our problems, there isn’t one answer. But, also, like in most of our problems, there is one answer that is usually relevant. What are you not doing that you know you…
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Ep. 91 – Interpret Financials to Hear Your Customers (Part 2)
In the last episode, I covered a few basic things to be looking for when interpreting your Income Statement. The Income Statement tells you how much value you’re providing to your customers. This time, I’m going to do a similar thing with the Balance Sheet. The Balance Sheet tells you how good you are at…
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Ep. 90 – Interpret Financials to Hear Your Customers (Part 1)
Financial analysts will tell you that your Income Statement communicates your Competitive Advantage. That’s true. But Competitive Advantage is too inward focused of a term for me. I like to keep the focus on the customer. So, what others call Competitive Advantage, I call Value to Customers. How do you know how much value you’re…
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Ep. 89 – Quit Moving Around
There are seven categories of everything that gets in the way of providing value to your customer; things your customer is unwilling to pay you for; things that burden both your customer and your business. I’ve gotten through the first two – Overproduction and Over-Processing. Now it’s time for the 3rd one: Motion.
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Ep. 88 – On Making Progress When Leading People (Part 3)
This is part 3 in this mini-series about leading a group of people. When trying to maintain traction and forward progress, it’s helpful to identify 3 groups that compose the entire collective. Each group requires a bit of a different mindset and approach in order to keep the ball moving forward. The first group was…
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