Have you ever seen that wooden wall that Marines must climb as they race through the obstacle course in basic training? It’s 30-feet high, straight up. In business, we like to construct walls just like that and plant them right between ourselves and our goals. We do it unconsciously…even as a protection…and often we don’t … Read more

Sure, finding new customers is important. But by leveraging your relationship with existing customers and giving them new products and services they want, you can actually increase revenue without spending more on marketing. How do you do it? Listen to them, get in their heads, and understand them at a deep level, says my guest, … Read more

Business seems to breed complexity. In fact, if you feel overwhelm or stress it’s likely due to the fact that your business has reached a level of complexity that you can no longer manage it with your current thinking, systems, and resources. Recently, I sat down with Dan Kuschell. If you don’t know Dan, he’s … Read more

The days of needing a physical office, full of employees, to build a highly successful (and profitable business are behind us. In this Unstoppable CEO interview, I talk with Mitch Russo–author of The Invisible Organization. Mitch is an expert in building “virtual” organizations. Organizations with distributed workforces, where the team doesn’t meet at the office … Read more

Are you running your business consciously? Strange question, but a serious one. Too often I see entrepreneurs running crazy, yet all of the frenetic activity lacks consciousness and intentionality. The result is usually a business that fails to serve the owner, the employees, and the customers as well as it could. To the extent you … Read more