New Work Revolution

When your business starts to really take traction and grow, it’s a great feeling.  As that business continues to grow, it becomes harded to fight for things that came easy to you in the past. Working on the business, training employees and creating space for growth, thought and development.  Eventually you realize that you have to fight […]

If your business was a broadway play that had to be performed every day, how would that change the way you ran your business.  If you think about your business is a show. When your customers come in they are expecting great things to happen. That means you have to be on point, your systems […]

When I first started leading people I thought the best strategy for getting our team to perform at a high level was to turn everyone into me.  Inspired by the genius of Dr Evil, I wanted to create a bunch of mini-mes in my office.  The result?  Total failure. It turns out either I am […]

A lot of business owners spend time training their teams and make investments in their teams by sending their teams to seminars and events.  Sending your team to a training is the first and easiest step.  The next step is using that training to create transformation in your team’s work life.  How do you take […]

Great leaders build authority.  Great leaders don’t just work and work smart, they do things that other people aren’t willing to do.   This week’s podcast was inspired by a memo that I read not too long ago from Roy Williams.  It’s what separates great business owners from mediocre ones. New Work Revolution is about creating […]

As a leader, what you say needs to be wrapped in a pretty package to allow people to effectively receive what you are giving them.  To be influential, you have to speak in a way that inspires. My recent article for TDS about the concept of framing your words, inspired this week’s New Work Revolution […]

Micro-managing has become so negative that the word has become an organizational swear word. Could there potentially be times where micro-managing is OK?  I have talked in the past about times where it isn’t OK. Today’s New Work Revolution is about when it may be appropriate to micro-manage people on your team and how to […]

I have said it once and I will say it again.  Business owners are some of the most courageous, interesting, inspiring people I have ever met.  On the other end of the business owner spectrum, business owners are also self-destructive, inefficient people as well.  This is what makes entrepreneurship so challenging. If you own a […]

Leadership is about influence.  Being a dictator is about control.  When I ask a group of business owner if they want to be a true leader or a dictator, they always choose the true leader.  What these business owners don’t know is that there leadership style is closer to the dictatorship side. This happen because […]

Belief.  This is not a term to be used lightly.  People die every day over this word.  When it comes to business, your death may be more of a metaphorical one rather than literal but die you may if you lack belief. Passion is the first thing that someone needs to be successful.  Are you […]

You ever wished for a comfortable or easy life?  I have and I am sure you have to.  Be careful what you ask for.  Sometimes are pursuit of comfort leads us to a life of pain later. I see this a lot with business owners.  The highly successful business owner choose the pain now so […]

Live life for long enough as an adult that has to live with consequences and scarcity will come knocking at your door. Scarcity starts as a whisper and slowly turns into a roar and says things like: “You’re not good enough.”, “Smart Enough.”, “Qualified.” “You’re presentation is shit.” “You’re shit.” These lies are sneaky and believable if […]

At some point in your business, you are going to be faced with the dilemma of maintaining where you are at or expanding your business.  This is probably going to require the use of additional people and/or property to create that additional leverage for your business expansion. In this week’s New Work Revolution podcast, I […]

In today’s world accountability is an overused term.  Use the word in some companies and watch the eyes roll as the team listens to another set of hollow promises and directives from their leaders. As a leader how do keep yourself from being the parent that always threatens discipline but never does anything? When you […]

It sounds clichéd to say that communication is vital to great leadership.  When it come to creating leverage in a business and growing, any bad communication habits will get exposed as your employees fail to execute the game plan. Do employees fail because they are stupid or bade people?  No.  For every employee that fails […]

It’s hard to restrain yourself when you are the smartest person in the room.  All the ideas.  All the suggestions from your team.  None of them as smart or as good as the ideas that you would have come up with.  Being the smartest person in the room has its disadvantages when it comes to […]

Who is your business for?  Is it primarily for you or is it primarily for your clients/customers?  Upon first glance of this question, the answer seems obvious.  Most of you would say your business exists to create value for the public. If we look a little more closely at this question, you might find that […]

Contrary to the popular statement, there are stupid questions. Spend a few minutes on Quora and you will realize that.  There are times when you need to ask an obvious question.  A question that initially may sound like a stupid question. This week’s New Work Revolution podcast dives into when you should ask questions about […]

Spend any amount of time in an industry and you will hear all of the bullshit that the majority of the business owners in that industry will start telling you.  How do you keep yourself thinking bigger than your industry? In case you were wondering what bullshit I was referring to.  Here are some examples: […]

It’s easy to become a victim over procrastination.  I’ve done it.  You’ve done it.  So you got behind on a project or let too many thing pile up on your desk.  What are you going to do now? There are two schools of thought. 1.  Shut it down.  Ignore it. Hope it goes away.  It […]