Business Fundamentals40 Videos

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 […]

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 […]

Kaizen

If all you do is incrementally improve your prioritization and your focus on your priorities each day, you can’t help but achieve exponential growth in your life and in your business. There’s a word for it: Kaizen.

Chromatic Masterminds

There are few things as satisfying as being in a mastermind with your business. Why is that? Put simply, it means everything becomes automatic. When you and your team are in sync, working towards a common purpose to serve your clients, with work automatically being distributed according to proven principles of human behavior, growth becomes […]