CEOs: Aside from all the day-to-day duties you encounter, what is the biggest barrier you face? I hope it’s not battling with your COO! In business, CEOs and COOs have distinct responsibilities. An oversimplified explanation I’ve seen again and again is, “CEOs are in charge of where...
CEOs and business owners: If you had to identify the most debilitating challenge in your business environment, what would it be? There are many to choose from! In meeting with business leaders, I’ve found some similarities in their answers as well as differences. Sometimes, this depends...
In business, no two companies have the same exact goals. Sure, overarching objectives like “revenue” or “acquisition/retention” exist. But, there are unique, underlying objectives that define what success means to a CEO. That means, not every COO can fit the bill for a company’s needs. I’ve...
CEOs: If you’re not achieving your idea of “success,” what’s stopping you? This is a loaded question, because a lot of CEOs—more than you’d think—haven’t actually defined what success means to THEM. Not their competition, not their staff, not even others who have a stake in...
To some, the term development is scary because it’s associated with government spending. Although development efforts do require money, their result should be a positive gain in tax revenue from smarter, better-equipped residents who are creating and filling valuable jobs and business. This is the third article in...
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” - Theodore Roosevelt In a time when it seems hard to agree on anything -- one thing we all can agree on is our desire to improve our quality of life. Regardless of how nice...
For business owners, it’s important to understand the expected return on an investment. But there’s a problem. The impact of everything you do can’t always be measured directly in dollars and cents. But an investment in your community, while it might not benefit you financially,...
Thrive: to grow or develop successfully: to flourish or succeed A small business can grow in many ways: financially, the number of employees, a bigger facility—but growing doesn’t necessarily get a business closer to its definition of success. The word thrive is often used to describe the...
In the early days of my tech startup, Zdi, we were a small, tight-knit group that loved to work and hang out with each other. Because the team was small, just a few people to start, spending time each day with individual employees was easy,...