A Quick Framework to Assess (and Upgrade) Your Team One of the top responsibilities of any growth-focused CEO is ensuring you have the right people in the right seats — a principle popularized by Jim Collins, and one that remains critical at every stage of scaling. So, here’s a simple,...

The answer is both. Often, A-players develop within an organization over time rather than being hired as such. It takes time for peak performance to kick in. Is it possible to identify and recruit high-performing talent from the start, or is the real value in cultivating a strong workforce through...

Artificial intelligence, once seen as a future-facing innovation is now a strategic imperative. This shift is no longer optional. The operational reality is that most businesses are just now getting ready to board the AI bus. Spoiler alert, “Big Business” is 12-18 months ahead of you on this. If you’re...

Feeling Stuck in the Grind? How Smart Productivity Tools, and a Bit of AI, Helped Me Reclaim My Time Have you ever ended your day feeling like you were running full speed… but going nowhere? That was me. Staring at an overflowing to-do list, wondering where the hours went. I...

For years, AI was a buzzword.Today, it’s a business imperative! Why now? The pace of change in business is no longer linear — it’s exponential. Markets are shifting faster. Customer expectations are higher and more demanding than ever. Forgetting that we are planning and playing in uncertain times, the external...

Watching the news can change your thinking in an instant.But should it? Times are always uncertain. That’s part of what makes business exciting—constant challenges, opportunities, and complexities. It’s easy to relax during the good times—spending less time on scenario and contingency planning, ignoring signs of failure, skipping regular SWOT analysis...

As you bring on more people in your organization, more human relationships will naturally form. By adding just one more person, the level of complexity grows geometrically, not arithmetically. It is not a 1:1 relationship. A company with just 12 people has 66 potential lines of communication.

A wise man learns from his experience - a super wise man learns from the experience of others. In 1727, a twenty-one-year-old Benjamin Franklin formed a peer advisory group he called “The Junto” that looks very much like an EO, YPO, or Vistage Forum.

Would you like to get more done each day feeling productive, knowing that the right work was accomplished? It’s possible, it just takes discipline and being intentional.