Thank you for Trusting Your Inbox To Us.
Our goal in every issue is to deliver you value.
You will get the next Smart Strategies, Fresh Perspectives newsletter when it’s ready.
Coach Kevin
The Top 10 Podcasts from The Growth Whisperers
After more than 130 podcasts, over two years, I'm thrilled with my partnership with my good friend…
Podcast EP 132 | Onboarded – What is onboarding and why does it matter? (1 of 4)
What is onboarding, and why does it matter? In this first of four episodes, we're discussing…
How Disciplined Is Your 20-Mile March?
How Disciplined Is Your 20-Mile March? A Jim Collins’ Great by Choice Concept It's…
Podcast EP 131 | Leveraging the Stockdale Paradox in this Economy
How can you leverage the Stockdale Paradox in this economy? During these turbulent times, with…
Mastering & Powering Up Your Company’s Flywheel
Assuming you’ve figured out your Flywheel - what truly creates power and drives the growth engine…
Podcast EP 130 | Jim Collins Level 5 Leaders
What are Jim Collins Level 5 leaders? Level 5 leadership is a concept developed in the book Good…
Quarterly Planning: Will You Finish 2022 Strong?
There's nothing like the power and focus of a deadline to get things done. And now that we are…
Podcast EP 129 | How to Identify A-Players During an Interview
There is no substitute for A-Players. The higher the percentage of A-Players on your teams, and…
Leveraging the Flywheel Concept in Your Business
The Flywheel is a very simple and potent tool designed to make a business more powerful. Jim…
Podcast EP 128 | Is Your Leadership Team Too Big?
Is your leadership team too big? There's a real challenge that comes with having too many people…
Have You Figured Out Your SMaC Recipe for Success?
A SMaC Recipe, from Jim Collins’ book Great by Choice, is a set of enduring operating principles…
Podcast EP 127 | How to Deal with an Underperforming Executive
How do you deal with an underperforming executive? Executives perform the most impactful and…
Up to Speed with Decision Making
"An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing…
Podcast EP 126 | Hidden Reasons Why Employees Leave their Jobs
What happens when managers tell you people are leaving for more money? As a leader, your direct…
Shared Experiences are a Catalyst for Connection
As I come off an amazing summer and reflect on the highlights that were most memorable and…
Podcast EP 125 | What to do When Your Team is Resisting Change
Sometimes you're clear about a change that needs to happen, but team members might resist that…
Maximizing the September Reset
I'm reading a fascinating book by Anthony Bourdain (actually, listening to the audiobook –…
Podcast EP 124 | Five Things That Lead to a Bad Strategic Plan
What makes a bad strategic plan? According to Harvard Business School, 92% of business plans fail…
Seven Business Strategies for an Economic Downturn
It’s almost impossible to predict what’s going to happen in the future – at work or in life. And it…
Podcast Ep 123 | Seven Valuable Ways to Help Develop Middle Managers
How do you develop middle managers? As companies grow, the gap tends to be in middle management.…
Meeting Mastery for CEOs
What is a CEO's #1 tool? Meetings, meetings, meetings. Whatever vision people have for what a CEO…
Podcast Ep 122 | Fire Bullets Before Cannonballs: Jim Collins’ Method for Validating Ideas
What does it mean to fire bullets before cannonballs? Often leaders are too bold, or…
Preserve Your Strategic Thinking Time
I love hearing the use of the word “strategic” in meetings and conversations, which often…
Podcast Ep 121 | How to Structure Presentations to Ensure Effective Decision Making
Leaders often waste a lot of time on decisions because meeting delegates are not well prepared…
Bottom Line Thinking
It’s stimulating to talk about strategy, the possibility of dominating a market, or adding value…
Podcast Ep 120 | The 20 Mile March concept By Jim Collins: Thrive in Uncertainty
When you embrace a 20 Mile March, you have a tangible point of focus that keeps you and your team…
Leverage Business Advisors to Quadruple Your IQ
How effective are you at gaining insights & opinions from true experts in business and in life…
Podcast Ep 119 | The Jim Collins SMaC Recipe: Your Formula For Success
SMaC Recipe is a concept developed in the book Great by Choice. A SMaC recipe is a set of durable…
Why You Need to Upgrade to Net Promoter Score 3.0
Net Promoter Score (NPS) is an absolute favorite of mine to simply get a pulse on what your…
Podcast Ep 118 | Flywheel Model: Part Two | Powering Up Your Flywheel
There's a big problem with most flywheels, and it's the main reason they're destined to fail. The…
Podcast EP 110 | Common Questions (and Answers) about the Scaling Up Framework
What are the most common questions about the Scaling Up framework? In this week's Growth…
0 Comments54 Minutes
Podcast EP 109 | Why Building SOPs and Procedure Manuals Can Be a Waste of Time
Many scaling companies try to capture all their Standard Operating Procedures or SOPs in an effort…
0 Comments30 Minutes
Podcast EP 108 | Getting Deep Monthly Reporting Right for Your Business
How do you get deep monthly reporting right for your business? If you only skim financial and…
0 Comments39 Minutes
Podcast EP 107 | Software is Not Management
There's a trap that leaders can fall into, thinking that software can replace the important role…
0 Comments30 Minutes
Podcast EP 106 | Why You Need a Cash Reserve to Weather the Storms
How much of a cash reserve should you have? Cash gives you options when the storms come - and they…
0 Comments51 Minutes
Podcast EP 105 | Why Stretch Targets are Garbage
Stretch targets are garbage. People set stretch targets in the hope that they will motivate a team…
0 Comments40 Minutes
Podcast EP 104 | Habits Successful Leaders Practice to Prepare for the Week Ahead
The most successful leaders Brad Giles and Kevin Lawrence come across do the same things to…
0 Comments36 Minutes
Podcast EP 103 | How to Encourage More Candidates to Apply for Job Vacancies
What should you do when you have low numbers of candidates applying for your job vacancies? Kevin…
0 Comments39 Minutes
Podcast Episode 101 – What to do if You’re Failing to Achieve Your Quarterly Goals
Sometimes, it's mid-way through the quarter and you realize you are failing to achieve your goals.…
0 Comments1 Minute
Podcast Episode 100 – Topgrading: Hire and Keep the Best Talent
Do you know how to source, spot, hire and keep the best talent for your organization? Topgrading…
0 Comments43 Minutes
Podcast Episode 99 – The Brilliant Jerk
The brilliant jerk is a phrase that was made famous in the Netflix culture deck, is also known as…
0 Comments33 Minutes
Podcast Episode 98 – Are you unintentionally doing other people’s jobs?
Are you an answer dispenser? Many leaders accidentally find themselves doing other people's jobs -…
0 Comments27 Minutes
Spatial Disorientation: When You Think You’re Making the Right Decisions But May Be Hurting Your Company
Earlier this year when I did some research for my new book - about what it takes for a company to…
0 Comments5 Minutes
Do Your Team’s Aspirations Match Your Growth Aspirations?
For the rest of my life, I will vividly remember a session with Jim Collins when he said you can't…
0 Comments3 Minutes
Knowledge is Power. Does Your Learning Match Your Aspirations?
Years ago, after hearing Mark Cuban speak at a conference, a small group of us joined him,…
0 Comments4 Minutes
What One Thing Do Want to Accomplish Before the End of 2023?
At the turn of the season, I was thinking about the distinction between summer brain and September…
0 Comments2 Minutes
Do You Have a ‘Who’ Problem?
The other day, an overseas client and I were talking about a problem in the business. When we…
0 Comments3 Minutes
Time Flies
Wow, time flies! The other day, I heard a statistic that it gave me a bigger picture on how fast…
0 Comments3 Minutes
The Two Conflicting Roles of a CEO
There's much discussion about what makes a great CEO and how much time to spend in the two critical…
0 Comments5 Minutes
Navigating Success Together: Why Aligned Executive Teams Matter
There’s an important topic that's often overlooked in the corporate world: executive team…
0 Comments5 Minutes
Nothing found.
Nothing found.