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Twelve No-Compromise Resolutions for 2015

As we wrap up 2014, it's the perfect time for business leaders to reflect on the year's accomplishments, ponder the lessons from challenges... Read More

80% of your 100% is still 80%

What does "giving it your all" really mean? When you ask your team to give 110% effort, do you really get that 110% ... or do you get 100%,... Read More

Delivering Excellence in your Salon/Spa is More Than Just a Choice

Excellence is a beautiful thing to behold, but what is it? It is that rare state when all things converge flawlessly into a product, service or... Read More

Anatomy of a cash crisis

For entrepreneurs, there is nothing more dreaded and stressful then going through a cash crisis. Much like the "battle stations" siren on a... Read More

2014: Home-stretch thoughts

Today is the first day of the last month of 2014. So far, you have eleven months of business in the history book this year. You've eaten your... Read More

My BIG No-Compromise Project

This Monday Morning Wake Up is a little departure from my usual rants on leadership and more about sharing a very special project that I've spent... Read More

When your Financials speak

If you were your company's financial reports, would you feel ignored and disrespected? Or even worse, would you feel irrelevant? This may sound... Read More

If there were nothing but green lights

There are specific milestones in our lives when vision, determination, ambition, self-confidence and opportunity collide in ways that explode all the... Read More

Salon & Spa Leaders: It Will Always be a Work in Progress

Over twenty-one years ago, I founded Strategies to coach and train business owners in the disciplines of leadership, performance and growth. I am... Read More

Founders Fatigue Epilogue: To become reinvigorated

My Founders Fatigue MMWU of a few weeks ago not only hit its mark, it pushed some owners to recognize that they have Founder's Fatigue and... Read More

The Conversation

As a business coach, much of my work centers on guiding leaders through the wonderful, wacky world of human thinking and behavior, both of those they... Read More