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More than any other business role, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) or senior operations role, is most difficult to describe or create success criteria. The reason? It is dependent on a complimentary fit with the CEO, and as we’ll realize upon reading the this long but relevant and informative HBR article, there are many variations … Read more What COO Role Would Best Benefit You & Your Company
I will be presenting “Sharpening Your Marketing Focus: 2 Steps to Effective Lead & Customer Segmentation” at the Business Fundamentals Bootcamp, November 18, 2016, at the Andover Country Club in Andover, MA! This event’s theme is “How will the election results impact the small business community?.” These events have been held for many years and … Read more Presenting at Upcoming Supporting Strategies Business Fundamentals Bootcamp
Top 5 Value Drivers and Value Killers of a Business A few years ago I went to a professional group meeting. The topic was “value drivers” and “value killers” of small companies. There was a very qualified panel of experts (I don’t remember who they were at this point – sorry about that panel members), … Read more Top 5 Value Drivers & Value Killers of a Business
I am inspired by others, as I most often am, to address a common issue that plagues many business owners and their teams. My inspiration was initiated by one, “The Knowing-Doing Gap,” a book written by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton, two then Stanford University educators and published by Harvard Business School ©2000, about why leaders … Read more It’s Not What We Know, It’s What We Do! A Practical Process for Taking Meaningful Action
“The right things” probably don’t change much as your business evolves and grows. But “the right way to do them” often does. More often than not, we don’t lack “knowing” but we do suffer from “not doing.” So how can we lead and manage (two discrete functions) and sustain success and continuous improvement. Here is … Read more How Do I Keep Doing “The Right Things” As My Business Grows
I will be presenting at the Business Fundamentals Bootcamp, Friday, April 29, 2016, at Bentley College in Waltham, MA! This event’s theme is “Taking your Business to the Next Level.” I plan to work with business owners and leaders to discover the dramatic positive impact effective delegation can have on their individual and their team’s productivity and … Read more I Will Be Presenting at the Business Fundamentals Bootcamp 4/29/16 at Bentley College in Waltham, MA!