Are you the founder of a business and you are now looking at investing in bigger changes to your company? Maybe you are thinking, "I want to grow my client base", or "I need to hire someone", or "I'm going to open up a new product line", or maybe you ... ► Read More
Getting Back To Normal
On March 13, 2020, I was standing at the front of a large class of college students, trying to find ways to calm their anxiety over the possibility of being off school for a few weeks and maybe losing their semester. The path the Corona virus was ... ► Read More
Distributed Leadership
When leadership is distributed throughout a company, adaptive change can be more easily managed. Innovation and creativity comes from all places, not just from the top. People are inspired to control their own future by actively participating in the ... ► Read More
Like Turning A Ship?
Most of us have heard or used the expression, "like turning a ship" with reference to change in an organization or bureaucracy. This analogy works with respect to the time it takes to have a ship, that is heading in one direction, turn to another ... ► Read More
What Strategy Looks Like: It’s not simple
Creating a strategy for your business has many forms depending on what part of your business or goal you are looking to grow. I love strategy for this very reason; it touches all aspects of the business, helps define the purpose, and creates a path ... ► Read More
No Change is Change
The only way to "something new" is through change. Whether it is a good change or a bad one, an expected change or a surprise, something we chose or something forced upon us, there is no way to our next experience without first going through ... ► Read More
Working From Home? Have a Routine!
Our brains are required to manage thousands of pieces of information. Having a routine allows your brain to go on autopilot for some of the thought processes around what has to get done next. In a business of our own, or when working at home for our ... ► Read More
Infatuation
Jack Timbrell was a special man to me. He was fun and funny, intelligent and intellectual with business smarts to spare. Jack had a first-year university education (almost unheard of in his day) and he was an entrepreneur. He was my ... ► Read More
The Tenacity Required to Endure Business Hardships
The penguin, moose, and polar bear are icons of winter representing the tenacity required to endure the wilderness during times when food is scarce and the environment is uncomfortable. This is true of the entrepreneurship as well. Business is ... ► Read More
How To Get Guidance and Accountability to Reach Our Goals
I know, just like everyone else, that reaching my goals requires a plan that I can follow and a commitment to do the work in that plan. The challenge is... The challenge for me, and for most of the highly successful businesswomen I work with ... ► Read More
