“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey I had an invigorating conversation last week with a business owner who’s currently in the [...]
“If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.” – Unknown We’ve talked about priorities before in generalities, but today I’m thinking about something specific for any business. I recently was [...]
“Productivity is being able to do things you were never able to do before.” – Franz Kafka Advance apology – the title of this post is misleading. I don’t think there really is one key to [...]
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.” – Proverbs 29:18 At its most basic, the purpose of Growth & Profit Solutions (GPS) is to help business leaders – or people in [...]
“Don’t mistake activity with achievement.” – John Wooden This qualifies as the understatement of the year, but we live in a world that changes at an almost unbelievable rate. It’s at the point [...]
“The success combination in business is: Do what you do better… and do more of what you do…” – David Joseph Schwartz I watch a lot of football (the American kind). One of the things that annoys [...]
“Things may come to those who wait, but only things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln It’s certainly true that patience is a virtue. Rushing off and doing something stupid is a recipe [...]
“Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.” – Josh Billings One of the more interesting exercises we use when talking about growth [...]
“Be yourself – not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.” – Henry David Thoreau I like that quote. I wish I had a way of measuring how much time we spend in our [...]
“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.” – Ellen Glasgow During 2014 we’ve spent a lot of time working with people around the idea of growth. After several years without much [...]