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Why you need to become a prisoner to achieve business freedom
Want freedom? First, you must become a prisoner to your business, which is why most business owners never achieve freedom. Almost every founder, CEO and business owner I know is a hostage to their business.
Are you a resourceful human — or a human resource?
There are a number of ways we refer to people at work that are deconstructive. All of them should be as off-limits as any racial slur, not because they are on the same level, but because both are dehumanizing. Here are some of the worst.
Where are you in the seven stages of business ownership?
Okay, so you're building the business of your dreams. But do you have any reference point for how your business actually affects you personally? If you don't, you just might be building a trap for yourself.
The biggest thing wrong with hiring is the people doing it
A growing number of great companies are dumping hiring managers altogether and putting hiring in the hands of peer teams. It turns out eight to 10 brains are better than one.
It's time for business control freaks to admit the truth
Could you build a business around teams of people who have no manager and who report to no one up a "food chain"? If you want your business to thrive going forward, you just might want to.
Here are three key questions that really free you to lead
When you solve and decide, all that is left is to delegate the task. But when you train others to solve and decide, you are delegating responsibility
Here's a CEO success secret that you can steal
I would never advocate putting a boat in the water without a rudder. But most people are sitting around building hand-carved, silver inlaid, 100-foot rudders to stick on the back of their 12-foot dinghies, and wondering why their idea sinks before it's launched.
Here's why you should know these two strange business words
For years, we have shared that anyone can be successful with just a few things: 1) Speed of execution 2) Be the bulldog--never give up. In shorthand, get moving and stay moving. There are two words that go along with these.
Why we're returning to the age of the business owner
Here's the historical perspective on why no one wants to be an executive and why 65 percent want to own their own business. We are going back where we came from ― business ownership.
Why time is the new money
Companies are realizing that when you give people back their time, they will make you more money. It seems counter-intuitive, but it's really quite logical.
Down with managers — up with success!
I'm aware of 100 or so companies that don't have managers (and there are easily a few thousand that I'm not aware of), and I've never heard them say they can't find good people.
Can you really have it all? The answer is …
Too many business owners go into business looking for an immediate Ozzie and Harriet "lifestyle business", assuming that they can step right in working four or five days a week. Success almost never comes that way. It was the willingness to go all in and be completely imbalanced on the front end that allows me to be imbalanced now in the direction of free time.
