Business Fundamentals40 Videos
Becoming Jordan Peterson
Don’t be a business owner trying to take accountability and ownership of other people’s stuff … their problems; causes; tirades. Put your own room in order first. Don’t go out into the world and assume ownership of other people’s stuff. When you martyr yourself on these causes you clearly can’t make a difference on, you […]
Do What You Love and Delegate the Rest
How much money are you wasting by not paying someone a salary? Are you throwing away time doing tasks that don’t return much per hour, financially speaking, when you could delegate them to someone else? Are you sapping your energy doing things you don’t want to do because no one else has been given that […]
Don’t Get Caught in the Time Trap
“If you require motivation to do what you say is important, it isn’t important.” I’m very fortunate to be able to learn from a man as smart as Dr. John Demartini, and this quote really sums up what I’m sure a lot of you have heard from me before: there is no better indicator to […]
Organizing Roles
Clearly understanding and managing according to accountability and responsibility is critical for the success of your organization. Your organizational chart should represent the roles that are functionally necessary and individuals may be assigned many roles. Those roles represent nothing more than a process inventory that an individual employee is accountable and/or responsible for.
The Death of the Specialist
Have you ever noticed how easy it is to find horror stories by freelancers about working with nightmare clients… but it’s much harder to find business owner horror stories about freelancers? It’s not as though they don’t exist. I’ve heard my share of them. In fact, one of the reasons that Measurable Genius exists is […]
How to Grow Your Business Like It’s a Piece of Software • An Interview with Paul and Philly Fuggle
One of the great things about being a visionary is that you’re always seeing ways to make things better. Of course, that also comes with a downside. If left to their own devices, most visionaries will have problems completing things because they’ll constantly be seeing ways to make what they’re doing better… which means they […]
Middle Management
Middle management is one of the most challenging roles to play in any organization. It’s easy to be a business owner. You just need to be accountable. It’s also easy to be an employee. You just need to be responsible. It’s hard to be both. That’s what makes middle management special. They have a gift […]
The Myth of More Work
There’s a finite limit to the amount of work you can get done in a day. But it never quite seems to be enough, right? No matter how much you accomplish, there’s this nagging voice in the back of your mind that’s never satisfied. “You’re never going to grow this business if you don’t work […]
Beware the Pipeline
Entrepreneurship is a lot like video game development, especially when you’re a service provider. You have a player base (clients), that you have to make happy with regular content updates (projects). And if they’re not happy with the work you’re doing, they’re very vocal about making sure you hear it. In order to make money […]
