Grow Your Small Business Without Losing Passion or Purpose 06/08/15 Posted by Cindy Bates, Vice President, Microsoft U.S. SMB group
Your success is directly proportional to your ability to solve issues. Solving issues, once and for all, is one of the weakest aspects in many businesses. Ever been in a meeting and said, didn’t we just have this problem 3 weeks ago??? IDS In the EOS model™, we teach a discipline called IDS to make companies stronger …
Many of you have heard me talk about the concepts of passive sabotage or artificially healthy. Here’s an article from Lencioni you should read – he talks about being a ‘jerk’ and the recipe for mediocrity. Remember, you need to be Smart AND Healthy…
Clipless Pedals As an avid mountain bike rider, when I first made the switch to ‘clipless’ pedals I was a bit apprehensive. Ok, to be honest I was downright fearful. Contrary to the term, clip-less pedals actually means your shoe is physically clipped to the pedal and requires a, non-intuitive, lateral movement of your heel …
Pixar films are not good at first, and our job is to make them so–to go, as I say, “from suck to not-suck.” Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation & Disney Animation: $8.6 Billion(!) in Revenue Pixar is the company that has created 14 movies that have ALL been # 1 box office hits – and that’s …
In a recent radio interview, John Lowe of Be Compelling Now asked me: “What makes a good leader?” The 5 things you must do to be a great leader! Do you recognize your opportunities to lead? And if so, what have you focused on to enable your success? Let me know …
Have you ever been told, You’ve got rocks in your head…? Well maybe that’s not such a bad thing. At least that is, if you’re running your business on EOS®. In EOS, ROCKs are the few, most important things you need to get done in the next 90 days (the term comes from Stephen Covey). …
Post compliments of Gino Wickman, Visionary at EOS® Worldwide – I recently had an epiphany (if this can be called that) after teaching Scorecard for the last 13 years to over 125 companies, running my last two businesses on one, and teaching it to our 58 EOS Implementers and thousands of companies indirectly. This epiphany hit during …
I was asked recently to be a guest blogger for Angel Oak Creative. As I sat down to decide what to write, I found myself reflecting on a debate I had recently suggesting you may need to get rid of your core values… if they didn’t meet two points put forward by Patrick Lencioni: Core …
Over the last several months I’ve migrated from branding under EOS Carolinas to TrueNorth. If you’re interested in some of my previous blog posts, you can find them HERE.