Is Your Business Really Living, or Just Existing?

Is Your Business Really Living? (Or Just Existing?) What Marcus Aurelius Knew About Success That Most Entrepreneurs Ignore “Just teach her daughter an exercise program and get out of there.” Those words changed so much for me. I was working at a so-called nonprofit home health agency, caring for a patient who had suffered a […]

Every Move Matters

Every Move Matters “In planning, never a useless move; in strategy, no step taken in vain.” — Sun Tzu If you’re like most small business owners I know, you’re busy almost all the time. The problem is that being busy doesn’t always mean being productive.  Days get filled with tasks that feel urgent but don’t […]

Visionary Leadership

Visionary Leadership “To foresee a victory which the ordinary man can foresee is not the acme of skill.” — Sun Tzu This morning, I was reading The Art of War, Chapter 4, and came across the story of Han Hsin. His strategy seemed absurd—his own generals doubted him, and the Chao army mocked him for […]