Leadership Archives - Business By Design

20Jun

Artists can be bad for business

Today we might be referring to you as an “Artist”, not in the sense that you are someone who creates paintings, drawings or works in the entertainment industry, but […]

13Jun

How to manage under performance & get results . . .

As a valued member of our tribe we wanted to share the learning from our Managing Under Performance workshop last week We started big picture and discussed how complexity in the world […]

08May

Why it’s harder to be excellent

How do you maintain the work performance of yourself & your team members? How do you help your team to be great at what they do? And why is […]

05Apr

Avoid the sheep dip at all costs

Are you sheep dipping your business leaders . . . Have you ever seen sheep dipping? The video below is quick visual of what I am talking about . . […]

20Mar

You’re not a super hero

So many of the business owners I run into are stuck doing everything themselves, and I mean everything. Selling, accounting, admin tasks — it all falls on their shoulders, both […]

07Mar

Don’t leave change in your business to chance

Who wants things to change? Who wants all these things? Yep, absolutely we all want change. Okay. Now, who wants to change? A few less hands. Here are some […]

20Feb

Mind the performance gap

Building a high performing business is about bridging the gap between leadership capability & success. Yet there is one component that most business leaders forget, and I will share that […]

29Jan

Anti – Goals . . . design your future away from what you don’t want

Goal setting can really suck . . . especially if you are not good at it. There is a stack of information on how to do it . . . […]

23Jan

Why business ownership is killing you

I’ve got some bad news. Real bad news. You know that heavenly perfect life you dreamt of when you decided to become a business owner? Well, the reality might not […]

08Jan

Teams beyond hungry, humble, and smart

Ideal Team Players In 2016 Patrick Lencioni brought out the follow-up book to his The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, “The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the […]

Leadership