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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