by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Business Management, Change Management, Entrepreneur, Execution, Leadership, Non-Profit, Small Business, Start-up, Strategy
Enthusiasm. Confidence. Passion. Belief. All of these are important to the success of any new venture. They can also be the biggest pitfalls for the new venture. The momentum and the drive to do everything at once can lead an entrepreneurial team to expand before the...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Business Management, Change Management, Commercialization, Competitiveness, Entrepreneur, Execution, Leadership, Non-Profit, Small Business, Start-up, Strategy
One of the biggest mistakes businesses—or any organization today—make is a failure to allow time for working on the business itself. Current business practices have created a mindset that has every worker (theoretically at least) working every moment in the business...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Business Management, Change Management, Leadership, Non-Profit, Small Business, Start-up, Strategy
“We don’t have time to do it that way.” How many times have you heard that said or said it yourself? How about the alternative “If you don’t have time to do it right, when are you going to find the time to redo it right?” What is it going to cost you if you have to do...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Business Management, Change Management, Competitiveness, Entrepreneur, Leadership, Non-Profit, Small Business, Start-up, Strategy
In these days of sound bites and quick fixes, one-size-fits-most solutions seem to be as prevalent as the common cold and as hard to treat and cure. Most people probably have had the experience of someone from their organization reading a book or attending a...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Business Management, Change Management, Leadership, Non-Profit, Small Business, Start-up, Strategy
Have you ever driven home or to work only to arrive and not remember how you got there? You recall getting in your vehicle and starting the engine, but after that—nothing. You did what you’ve always done to get from point A to point B, but you did it on automatic...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 30, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Business Management, Change Management, Customer Relationships, Entrepreneur, Human Resources, Leadership, Small Business, Start-up
Two women are sitting in a restaurant. Each is sitting alone at a table, working on a laptop. The restaurant is full of people ebbing and flowing from the tables. Both are busy doing work and not interacting or even looking up from the computers to notice what is...
