Small Business-How Do I Plan?
Small Business-How Do I Plan? Where Do I Start? Have you ever embarked on what seemed like an insurmountable task either in your personal life or in your small business? Something that seemed so big and daunting when first starting out? Maybe it was an athletic achievement like running a marathon or climbing a…
Small Business Owners-What Are You Doing Right In Your Business?
What Are You Doing Right In Your Business? I can’t figure out if it’s the “perfection” bug in most entrepreneurs and small business owners or just society’s emphasis on focusing on problems, but most business owners I know spend a lot of time focusing on things they’re doing wrong in their business instead of celebrating…
Simple Solutions for Your Small Business
Why do so many business owners express a simple solution for what is almost always a complex problem? For example I can expect to hear one or more of the following ‘solutions’ during a discussion with with a business owner talking about the state of their business. All I need are: 1) better people 2)…
Risk? Reward? How do Small Business Owners Handle It?
Are Entrepreneurs Risk Takers? I’m sure you’ve heard it before that business owners must be risk takers. I mean of course it’s more risky to start and run your own business than it is to work for some large stable company like Ford or Anderson Consulting. Not so fast my friend. The way I see…
Preparation & Planning- Small Businesss Necessities
What Are You Prepared For? I caught part of one of my favorite movies over the weekend, the 1987 classic The Untouchables with Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, and Robert De Niro. The scene that sticks in my mind is when Connery’s character (James Malone) asks Costner’s character (Eliot Ness), “What are your prepared to do?” in relation to Ness’s…
Maximum Value Partners Launch New Radio Show: Dirty Secrets Of Small Business
Podcasts featured on new website Cleveland, OH–September 28, 2016– Maximum Value Partners (MVP) specializes in helping small business owners answer their “how” questions – how to expand, how to restructure, how to make more money, how to make the next big leap. MVP itself is taking a very big leap in launching a new radio…
Is Your Small Business On the Right Path?
When we first meet a potential client in our coaching business, one of the early questions we ask is, “is your small business on the right path”? Every company can only be in a version of one of three conditions: growing, declining, or bumping along, up a quarter, down a quarter etc. When we ask…
Is Your Business Like The Sopranos?
Yes could be a good or bad answer to this question (and no I’m not referring to whether or not you’re in the mafia). It’s a question of whether you answered “Yes, my business is like the TV show Sopranos” or “Yes, my business is like the Soprano family business.” From the TV show…
How much more energy would you have as a business owner if your were acting as a spark plug instead of the battery?
What’s The Battery in Your Business? Sometimes life throws you a curveball. After dropping my daughter off at daycare this morning I jumped back in my car to head to my first meeting of the day and….NOTHING! Hmmm, that’s strange, my car was just working. So I try again. And again. And again. Still to…
How Do You Build a Great Team for your Small Business?
How Do You Build a Great Team? I recently had the chance to hear Mark Shapiro (the General Manager of the Cleveland Indians) and Chris Antonetti (Assistant General Manager of the Cleveland Indians) speak at a local college. The topic was“Winning Without Steroids, How to Link Innovation, Integrity and Leadership.” The purpose of the discussion was…
How Do I Know When The Next Generation Is Ready?
One of the toughest questions for an owner to answer is “How do I know when the next generation is ready?” Transitioning a business to a new owner is a very difficult and time consuming process once the new owner has been identified, but how do you know that new owner is ready to take…
How Do I Know What to Do Next?
My wife’s department was recently “reviewed” by some peers. The result of the 2.5 day visit was a 53-page report with HUNDREDS of recommendations. None of these recommendations were prioritized, just simply listed one after another in each of ten plus categories. After I closed my gaping jaw, I asked, “how are you supposed…