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Del Mar Vacations Boosts Revenue 600% with Crews & co.

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Discover how Del Mar Vacation Rentals partnered with Crews & co. to implement the consultancy’s Growth Method and develop strategies for success.

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1.19.2024
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Auvik Adopts OKRs, Creates Company Alignment with Crews & co. and Hits Financial Targets

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Learn how Auvik partnered with Crews & co., where the Growth Method and Growth for All forged a new framework for achieving success—OKRs included.

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1.19.2024
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McMillan Education’s CEO Reclaims 10 Hours a Week with Crews & co. HR Services

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Learn how Crews & co. became the reliable resource to support McMillan Education with big-picture HR challenges and smaller administrative tasks.

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1.19.2024
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Board Feedback: How to Respond to Your Advisors

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Last week, I wrote about the challenges of receiving feedback from your team. Today, I want to talk about a different kind of feedback: the kind that comes from your trusted advisors. The clients who inspired this post are the ones who have boards. But the advice applies to any company with any kind of advisors.

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1.18.2024
Eric Crews

How to Get Better at Receiving Feedback

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Leading a business takes courage. It also requires you to balance being vulnerable and having a thick skin. Every quarter, we solicit feedback from our consulting team. And every quarter, we go through the somewhat painful exercise of reviewing that feedback. This review forces our leadership team to hear things that do not feel great to hear. But it’s one of the most important things we can do to keep evolving the company.

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1.11.2024
Eric Crews

What Can You Accomplish in the Next 10 Years?

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I’m in the middle of a 10-year plan, and the older I get, the more clarity I have on what I need to accomplish in that time frame. There’s no way to do everything. What do I need or want to do most?

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1.4.2024
Eric Crews

Letting Go of Mental Baggage: Be a Goldfish

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Being a goldfish means living without baggage. You might get upset. But then you get over it. You focus on moving forward and what’s ahead. Every day—or maybe 100 times a day—you reset. It sounds naive. But it’s a surprising prescription for happiness.

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12.28.2023
Eric Crews

10 Year Goals Are the New Annual Planning

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Maybe it’s the long, gray days. Maybe it’s the holiday season. But I’ve found myself reflecting on the past recently. Every day, there’s more past to look back on. I’ve accomplished a lot in my five-ish decades so far. I’m proud of what I’ve done. Even the mistakes have turned into valuable life lessons.

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12.14.2023
Eric Crews

How to Score OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)

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Learn why scoring OKRs is such a critical part of this high-impact methodology.

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12.11.2023
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