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The Owner’s Guide to Business Value
My goal with this guide is not to turn you into a valuation expert. It is to give you a practical understanding…
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The Price of Growth: When Your Business Outgrows Your People
The Price of Growth: When Your Business Outgrows Your People “What got you here won’t necessarily get you there.” — Marshall Goldsmith…
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Business GPA – How Healthy is Your Business?
Grade the seven things every business must do. Get a Balance GPA, a report card, and a ranked top-three action plan.
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The Wisdom to Stop: Knowing When to Pull the Plug on a Business Initiative
The Wisdom to Stop: Knowing When to Pull the Plug on a Business Initiative Not long ago, I was facilitating an issue-processing…
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What Are You Not Seeing? Strategic Blind Spots Every CEO Should Address
What Are You Not Seeing? Strategic Blind Spots Every CEO Should Address Every once in a while, I like to interrupt the…
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The Business Growth Trap: Why Bigger Might Be Breaking Your Business
The Growth Trap There is a dangerous assumption many business owners make when things start moving in the right direction. They see…
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Theme: Winning at Business
There is no repeatable formula for business success. The idea that high performance can be reverse-engineered from successful companies is misleading. What…
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For Leaders, Spring Is a Choice: Planting the Seeds for What Comes Next
For Leaders, Spring Is a Choice: Planting the Seeds for What Comes Next I’ve always loved the changing of the seasons. There’s…
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Growth Regardless of Obstacles
Growth Regardless of Obstacles: How Small Business Leaders Build Sustainable Growth in Any Economy Growing a business is rarely a smooth, predictable…
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Goal Achievement for CEOs and Business Owners: A Best Practices Guide
Goals are set with the best of intentions. Strategy sessions feel productive. Offsites generate alignment — at least for a moment. But…
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Capacity Building Lessons from the World’s Most Enduring Business Thinkers
My Journey with Capacity Building: A Look Back Before Looking Forward Recently, I was going back through my notes—old books, highlighted passages,…
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Good To Great
The transition from good to great is not easy, but it is possible with the right mindset, leadership, and culture. By embracing…
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Jasper
Turning Marketing Ideas Into Execution at Scale Most business owners don’t struggle with ideas. They struggle with execution. There’s no shortage of…
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Growth Institute
At its core, Growth Institute is an online executive education platform designed specifically for business owners, CEOs, and leadership teams who are…
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Merger Integration by Pritchett LLP
Merger Integration Best Practices by Pritchett LLP The Deal Is the Beginning—Not the Win Most business owners and leaders spend an enormous…
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BE (Beyond Entrepreneurship) 2.0
If you want your company to outlast your own leadership, start with BE 2.0 by Jim Collins. Use it to realign your…
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The City of Frederick Office of Economic Development
A City Economic Development and Business Growth Organization BusinessInFrederick.com is the official economic development platform for the City of Frederick Department of…
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Edward Lowe Foundation
An Entrepreneurship and Second-Stage Business Development Foundation Edward Lowe Foundation is a nonprofit organization focused on entrepreneurship, second-stage business growth, leadership development,…
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BoazPower.com
A Leadership, Sales, and Business Performance Coaching Platform Boaz Power is a leadership development, motivational speaking, and business performance coaching platform led…
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Retention Point
The Retention Point – Robert Skrob Why this book matters Most businesses think growth is the game. More leads. More sales. More…
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Whale Hunting
Tom Searcy’s central argument is simple: instead of chasing dozens of small, transactional deals, you identify and pursue a handful of “whales”—large,…
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Soar With Your Strengths
Most people spend years trying to become adequate in areas where they will never be great. That’s a poor investment. You already…
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion You don’t read Influence the same way twice. The first time, it feels like a set of…
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A More Beautiful Question – The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough ideas
We rush to answers because answers feel productive. Questions feel like delay...But the best thinkers—Einstein, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk—sat with the problem…