The 2nd bottleneck I want to talk about is a team member bottleneck. Many of us are all too familiar with this one.What does a team-member bottleneck look like in your business?Here’s 3 common ways that it appears: 1. You have a team member who is just not reliable. They blow-due-dates with enough regularity that you […]
Back in March I spoke at Todd Herman’s 90 Day Year Live event in La Jolla, CA on Breaking the 4 Bottlenecks That’ll Keep You From Scaling Your Business. This blog series is drawn from that talk. Business owners usually call me pretty much when they reach a crunch point in their scaling. That’s the […]
Remember how it used to feel to land customers? (A little like this?)Those were heady days. But these days…it’s a little different:“This sounds crazy to say, but if we take in even more more premium client, I think my team will implode.”“From the client side, it might look like we have our act together, but let […]
“It might look like we have our act together, but let me tell you, back here, everything’s a fire drill.” I hear some version of this with nearly every client I worth with. It’s usually why they make the choice to start working with me to improve their ops. Not only is it the top pain […]
I love this interview so much – despite the fact that it was about 90 degrees in the house that day. These ladies were terrific interviewers and I enjoyed telling my story, covering everything from Afghanistan to Evernote. Please have a listen! (Bonus: during it, you’ll learn how terrorism relates to curriculum – because, in […]
It was Friday, and the #WDS2013 conference hadn’t even yet begun, and I sat mesmerized as the gal next to me talked candidly, and in thrilling detail, about her body’s change of life. We had known each other for about 20 minutes, and I had learned already about the divorce (they’re still friends), the controlling […]
