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Playing your way to success – the Crazy 8’s of Business…!
On a personal note, I would like to dedicate this post to my Uncle Al Robke who recently played his last hand on earth, may he rest in peace. The earliest playing cards date back to around 1000 A.D.,...
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Healthy, Wealthy and Wise – 3 Ideas…
Tim Ferriss (author of the 4-Hour Workweek, 4-Hour Body and 4-Hour Chef) released his latest book – Tools of Titans, about a year ago and he structured the format of this massive resource around the...
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What is your business worth?
A client of ours was approached recently with an offer to buy out part of their business (their business is structured with 2 distinct parts to it, so this is a possibility for them). At this point,...
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Why Blogging Makes Good Business Sense
As the story often goes, it all happened mostly by accident. 20 yrs ago Jorn Barger coined a term “weblog” as he was writing his Robot Wisdom articles and then logging them on the web. It was a “web...
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Discipline Equals Freedom – A Winning Equation
It’s one of those counterintuitive ideas that when you first think about it might not make sense. Discipline equals Freedom. It’s one of the key principles for success highlighted in the fantastic...
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Are You Keeping Your Business Financially Healthy?
It’s the middle of the year and overall most businesses are continuing to ride the current economic growth cycle we’re on. Weekly, we have clients talk about the challenges of finding employees to...
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Want to Grow Your Business? Keep Your People Happy…!
Time and again when talking to business owners these days, I keep hearing the same thing – ‘we can’t hire enough of the right people‘. I have a client who’s had a critical position open for almost a...
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The Power of Patience
If you attend a Kansas City Royals game, touring the Royals Hall of Fame is a must, especially if you’ve never been. Besides seeing the two World Series trophies and all the cool memorabilia, be...
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Thoughts on ‘Solve For Happy’
Over the last few years, there’s been a lot of discussion about the concept of Happiness. From a business perspective, my first exposure to the science behind the study of happiness was in references...
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Opportunities and The Solar Eclipse
“It’s good to be lucky”. That has to be what at least 14 state’s bureaus of tourism have to be thinking about the economic impact the Great American Eclipse is having in their states. The 2017 Total...
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How would you do on ‘The Spaghetti Problem’?
What’s the essence of creativity? Is it intelligence? Planning? Experience? It turns out it may not be any of those things… Peter Skillman – who has the title of General Manager of Smart Things at...
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Burgers, Discipline and Wildly Important Goals
I’ve had the opportunity to eat at In-N-Out Burger a couple of times in the last month or so. We don’t have an In-N-Out here in Kansas City, so it’s a treat when I happen to be traveling somewhere...
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Hurricanes, Wild Fires, Earthquakes and Remembering 9/11…
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Even if you only read the cliff notes in High School, it’s likely you know that is the opening sentence of Charles Dicken’s, A Tale of Two...
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A Framework for changing…
I hope you don’t ever have this discussion, but imagine the situation where you are sitting down with your doctor after a bunch of tests and he gravely informs you that unless you make some drastic...
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Simple Success… Is 4 the Magic Number?
Limiting quantities to “4” as a means to simplify has proven to be pretty successful in a lot of instances throughout history. Who knows what the original driver was, maybe it started with the human...
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Wealth Building? Check out Every Family’s Business…
As a business owner, are you in business to create wealth or are you trying to create some kind of family legacy? Far too many businesses, especially family businesses get bogged down with the idea...
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The Art of Leadership
Maybe it is just a heightened cognitive awareness, but it sure seems like the topic of “Leadership” is on the rise in the last few years. Whether is it clients specifically wanting to work on...
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Feeling Stagnant in your business? Here’s what NOT to do…
I talked with two different business owners last week and both remarked that they were feeling like they were stuck. Things in the business were fine, but it all felt very similar to last year… and...
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Are you being impacted by Cognitive Disruption? I bet you are…
A survey by Pew this past January revealed that 77% of all Americans have smartphones and 92% of all Americans under age 35 have smartphones. Those percentages would only climb if you added...
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Beware the Roller Coaster…!
Most businesses have to deal with the roller coaster, which isn’t as much fun as it sounds…! In fact, one of the keys to long-term success is to make sure you’ve got the roller coaster under control...
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