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Being the CEO or owner of a business isn’t easy. Many are thrust into the role unprepared and usually they have no experience being the CEO of a business. In my consulting practice I work almost exclusively with CEO/business owners. While it can be lonely at the top, the CFO is usually a person the […]

Many of you know I’m an auto racer and also teach high performance driving. I also taught driver’s ed to teenagers at one point in my career. In all forms of driving, the challenge was to get the driver to look further ahead. Humans evolved to look down at the ground and a few feet […]

I believe that listening is one of the most important things we can do. Note I said “can” do because most people don’t do it or don’t do it well. I’m talking here about active, engaged listening. Not listening while distracted, multi-tasking, hungry or preoccupied. And not listening, just waiting for a pause, so that […]

I’ve written previously about the difficult transition from doer to manager; the toughest transition in business in my mind. And rarely do we become a pure manager in small to medium-sized businesses. Instead, we usually retain some “doing” while most of our time is spent “managing.” Still, we can all learn to be better managers […]

I believe the hardest transition in business is the one from Doer to Manager. When a person starts a business, let’s face it, they need to do everything or almost everything. As the business grows, the entrepreneur needs to shed some of his or her duties. They need to delegate. And that is a difficult […]