This is part three in our ten part series on driving your business value. Today is about how to identify the players on your team that are holding your business valuation back. Who are the folks on your team that are diminishing your business valuation? Well, it’s not the A and B players on the […]
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Your Unique X Factor: Business Value Drivers 2/10
What we’re covering today is your “X Factor”. This is a unique quality that your business has that makes you stand out from your competition. It’s what brings your clients back again and again. It’s what keeps them loyal. It’s what makes them never even consider working with the competition. Your X Factor could be […]
What is Your Business Worth? How to Increase its Value
Did you know that most business owners think their business is worth more than it is? The reality is your business is only worth what someone will pay for it – not necessarily what you think they should pay. If you are making decisions about business succession or transition based on guessing – you could […]
When Your Business Has Outgrown Great People
If you have been in business for a while, you’ve most likely experienced a situation where a long time team member is no longer able to keep up – and their performance is having a negative effect on the business. It could be their role has become more complex, or requires a different skillset, or […]
How to Shrink your To-Do List and Achieve More
How is your To-Do list looking? Is it ever shrinking… or ever growing? If you are like many leaders of growth businesses, your To-Do list is likely growing. However, the most effective leaders have short To-Do lists, and instead focus their time on their To-Achieve list. In this week’s video, I share a simple 3 […]
Keeping Up with High Growth in Your Company
It’s not unusual for a high growth business to see drift in execution. The team just starts to slow down a little bit; things aren’t getting done as quickly or as effectively, as they are trying to keep up with all the growth and the demands thereof. So if you’re in a high growth business, […]
How to Set Your Business Priorities Straight
If you and your leadership team are finding yourselves super busy and it’s not on the strategic, it’s just putting out fires and dealing with issues as they’re coming up all day long, just reacting, it could be that you don’t have clear priorities for the organization. So you may say, ” Yeah, we have […]
How to Adapt to Changes in Your Business’s Environment
Adapting to changes in your business is a bit like flying a plane at night. While you’re still fundamentally doing the same thing as you would when flying during daylight, the fact that the environment and the variables have changed means you need to adapt or risk crashing! It’s the same in a business context […]
Is Your Business Stuck in the Waiting Place?
The Waiting Place The question for you I have this week is, are you stuck in “The Waiting Place?” What is this waiting place? As a kid, if you’ve ever read Dr. Seuss’s book, Oh, the Places You’ll Go! You know just what I’m talking about. That book is about the adventure of growing up […]
Interview with Firm of the Future owners Juliet Aurora and Steve Loates
Hear the story of entrepreneur Juliet Aurora who started her enterprise out of pure necessity in the spare bedroom of her house 20 years ago, and how she and her husband Steve Loates grew it into a national bookkeeping firm that has earned Intuit’s highest Accolade: Firm of the Future. Along the way, Juliet and […]