Resources to run a better business.

Hiring is hard—especially in this market, when employees have their pick of desirable jobs. You’re competing with bigger companies that can offer more money and better benefits. How is a small business supposed to win?

Persistence is not a strategy. Persistence should be a tactic that gets you results. If you persist without acknowledging the impact (or lack thereof) of your efforts, you’re prioritizing hard work over tangible results.

The communication styles of your team members have everything to do with the value they’re able to provide—and their experience of being part of your organization.

That problem-solving skill—your willingness to dive in, and your drive to find solutions—probably got you where you are today. Entrepreneurs have to be scrappy if they want to survive.

The hiring market is tough. Millions have left the workforce. You’re competing with bigger companies for top talent—and you can’t compete with their comp plans and benefits packages.

Take any business operating system that’s run by a consultant (or a coach, implementer, facilitator, etc.): EOS®, Scaling Up, and even our system, GROWTH℠. All of these systems start by transforming your company at the executive level. But what about the rest of the business?

Our consultants focus on helping companies grow. But the reason we do it, our mission, is to help entrepreneurs and their teams live their ideal lives. If you don’t truly care about your people, you probably should not be an entrepreneur. So what does inspiring people look like?

How can you reclaim your time and still keep the most important items moving forward? Here’s a simple framework put together by one of our business consultants, Andrew Krebs-Smith. It’s called the Weekly Review, and the objective is to help you do more of the right stuff (and happily decide to leave some other things behind).

There's a big difference between a business that runs well and a business that can scale. Ultimately, a business that is going to last in the marketplace needs to do both.