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The High Cost of Losing Focus in Your Business

Written by Mike Paton on September 4, 2015

The Core Focus clearly defines your company’s sweet spot – work you love to do and are best at. Used properly, it helps you stay laser-focused on the stuff you do that most consistently delights your customers, makes you money, and allows you to have the most fun. To get it right, you’ve got to resist the temptation to try being all things to all people, and to ignore “shiny stuff.”

This sounds easy, but is often very hard, and surprisingly costly. One of my clients admitted this last week – and the story was so good I asked him to write a guest blog on the subject. Enjoy…

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Perfect is the Enemy of Done

Written by Mike Paton on July 20, 2015

Wayne Gretzky said, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." Having spent more than 1,000 days in the trenches with entrepreneurs and their leadership teams, I can safely say that quotation applies just as well to business as it does to sports. Because when it comes to making decisions, calling things “done”, and launching important work—leaders and teams fall into three camps.

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Success can be boring. Leadership Lessons from the Cockpit

Written by Randy Taussig on July 9, 2015

Lesson #6: Leadership Lessons from the Cockpit

Takeoffs and landings are truly the most exhilarating part of flight. They’re sexy—they get the blood running and often lead to bragging rights or ridicule (depending on the end results).

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Living Intentionally with Worthy Business Goals

Written by Jim Coyle on July 6, 2015

Living Intentionally… Not Easy for an Individual But it is Even Harder for a Business

What you need to do is easy; it is the “living it” that is the hard part. One of the main ways businesses are living intentionally is by knowing that their Core Values are a vital part of how the company operates. This means the values are not just something on their conference room wall, but they are lived every day. Values that are lived every day show up in how a company hires, who a company fires, who is rewarded or recognized, how expectations are set, and how the team interacts with each other and their customers and vendors.

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Why You Should Say NO to 10,000 Good Ideas

Written by Mike Kotsis on July 2, 2015

There are many different ways to grow your business. But some are better than others.

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