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What Does Mentoring Look Like?

June 18, 2012/in Sharpening Your Personal Leadership Skills/by Tom Doescher

There is no secret formula for mentoring someone, but one thing is certain: It requires spending a lot of time together. One of my favorite mentoring stories involves an owner-operated manufacturing business where the founder — an Ivy-League-schooled, impressive, enlightened individual — was preparing his son to run the business. One of the many examples […]

Are We Having Fun Yet?

June 4, 2012/in Sharpening Your Personal Leadership Skills/by Tom Doescher

Most people have no idea what kinds of pressures business owners have to deal with every day. From the outside, the idea of being in charge and owning a business looks pretty cool — yet we’ve all heard it said that it’s lonely at the top. I had an experience with a business owner one […]

What happens if you get hit by a Buick or a bus?

May 28, 2012/in Nuggets and Encouragement Regarding Strategy and Focus/by Tom Doescher

A lot of people seem to think that they are going to live forever. But just in case you don’t, do you have a plan? We have advised so many business owners on this subject, and have noticed a distinct trend. Typically, they will say, “I don’t know whether I want to sell or continue […]

Do you personally invest in new products and services?

May 21, 2012/in Nuggets and Encouragement Regarding Strategy and Focus/by Tom Doescher

You are the one who knows your company and its capabilities best. You also probably understand your customers/clients best. So how engaged are you, really, in developing new products or services? I believe both Steve Jobs and Bob Lutz would say the customer doesn’t know what they want. Of course, neither of them was big […]

He will never make it being that focused

May 14, 2012/in Nuggets and Encouragement Regarding Strategy and Focus/by Tom Doescher

On February 21, I posted a blog entitled “The Big Three,” in which I named the three traits world-class leaders must possess. The second of those traits was focus. One of my favorite stories about focus is this: A young CPA moved from New York to Detroit, and he struggled to find a job in […]