Culture & Team
Leading From a Distance: The Benefits and Challenges of Remote Work
Hate it or love it, it’s clear that remote work is here to stay. As of this year, 12.7% of full-time employees work from home, while 28.2% work a hybrid model. And you can expect flexible work models to become the new normal: A study by freelancing platform Upwork estimates that 32.6 million Americans will…
Read More5 Strategies For Successfully Navigating Change
In business, change can appear in the form of new competition, disruptive market forces, and economic shifts. Our adaptability has always ensured the survival of our companies. These days, though, with the acceleration of technology, the speed of change has increased exponentially. If businesses aren’t ready to adapt — and adapt quickly — they can…
Read MoreWhy You Should Toss “What’s Worked Before”
Let’s do a quick visualization exercise: imagine you’re an infant. Brand new to life and dependent on adults for your survival, you haven’t yet learned to talk. But no matter—you’re an expert at getting what you want. Through experience, you’ve learned that the best way to get what you need in life, whether it’s food,…
Read MoreOf Turtles on Posts, and the Leaders Who Put Them There
“If you see a turtle on a post… don’t blame the turtle.” When deregulation lifted in the 90s, the media industry experienced a lot of consolidation. I was with Clear Channel radio at the time, and as the largest major market operator, we took the opportunity to buy up surrounding smaller markets. One of our…
Read MoreTwo Team Builders, Two Very Different Outcomes
After having been directed by her boss, “Now that you are a manager, you need to establish your own team”, Shannon began building her team, the software department at a large banking organization. When she first started in the department, she found it odd that the team did not have individual offices. Instead, they sat…
Read MoreThere Will be People Waiting for You
I was strapped to a gurney with my head and neck embolized. As the EMTs gently pulled me out of the helicopter and rolled me across the roof of the Mayo St. Mary’s Hospital, one of them leaned over and quietly said “There will be people waiting for you in the ER.” Earlier that day…
Read MoreThis One Thing Can Change Your Company’s Future
Not unlike every other business owner, on my desk is a black three-ring binder. This binder contains leadership team meeting minutes dating back to 2006, the year my wife and my moving company was started. In fifteen years doing business, I can only find a record of fourteen meetings. Our moving company is not large,…
Read MoreBeing the Face Without Becoming a Prisoner
Think about when you started your business. Maybe it was just you or a few partners at the beginning. Since then, you’ve added to your team (a good thing) and have learned to delegate a lot of the customer-facing work to others (a great thing). Over time, you’ve retreated to the background. You no longer…
Read MoreHow is Improving Your Business Like Having Surgery?
In my last blog, Taking My Own Medicine, I wrote about implementing the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) into one of my wife’s and my businesses. When a business owner takes on the challenge of tearing down and re-building an entire business operating system, they do so with optimism. They foresee the changes will have an…
Read MoreThe Great Resignation or the Great Re-Balancing Act?
Employers and employees alike are talking about this thing called “The Great Resignation”. What is this movement? Well, it was coined by university professor, Anthony Klotz, and since, has spread through social media, taking on a slightly different angle. Klotz’s premise is basically this: when there is uncertainty, people tend to hunker down and remain…
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