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Is your business designed to give your clients/customers what they want?

April 28, 2014/in Nuggets and Encouragement Regarding Strategy and Focus/by Tom Doescher

In our April 23, 2012, post, “Create your own path,” we encouraged business owners to focus on their customers’ needs, not on what their competitors were doing. You can be in what appears to be the same business as someone else, but chances are you have totally different clients/customers. In our community, we have just […]

Is it better to buy at the top of the market or at the bottom?

April 14, 2014/in Nuggets and Encouragement Regarding Strategy and Focus/by Tom Doescher

This is not a trick question. At a recent automotive trade group meeting, two warm-up questions were posed to the participants. They were: “What sales revenue do you expect for next year?” and, “Are you planning to make any equipment or facility investments this year?” As you would expect, the answers were all — except for […]

A tribute to my father and mentor

March 31, 2014/in Sharpening Your Personal Leadership Skills/by Tom Doescher

On December 7, 2013, Al Doescher, a common man with a lot of wisdom, passed after enjoying a very fruitful life. In reflecting upon his life, I connected some dots I had never thought of before. The following is partially therapy, but hopefully some advice that will enhance your life and business. Enjoy. As many […]

Three life lessons learned from team sports

March 17, 2014/in Nuggets and Encouragement Regarding Strategy and Focus/by Tom Doescher

Recently I (Tom) was asked by a former Plante Moran colleague, Brian Kirby, to give a locker-room pep talk to the Sacred Heart School’s eighth-grade boys basketball team. After thinking about it for awhile, I realized that almost every week I find myself in a situation where I draw upon my team sports experience from […]

If you are a productive narcissistic leader, keep reading

March 3, 2014/in Sharpening Your Personal Leadership Skills/by Tom Doescher

This is a continuation of our three-blog series regarding narcissistic leaders. If you haven’t already read the previous two installments, you can read them here: “Is a narcissistic leader a bad leader?” and How to be successful working with a productive narcissistic leader. Michael Maccoby, author of Narcissistic Leaders — a book that definitely broadened […]