Kris Kluver joins me to discuss how to think like a client to distinguish oneself in the market and solve a problem better than anyone else. Niching down on opportunities to address client’s pain points using your own unique skill set is the key. Kris is a seasoned solopreneur who started his first company at […]
Growth Strategy
6 Leadership Books to Guide You Toward Better Decisions in 2020
As 2019 comes to a close, business leaders are thinking ahead to the decisions they’ll need to make in the new year. By Gene Hammett: Speaker, growth strategist, and host of the LeadersintheTrenches.com podcast @genehammett on twitter. Leaders are forced to make tough decisions every single day. While every choice matters, it’s the most difficult decisions that […]
How I Gained Control
Blog #218 No, I am not a drug dealer or a doctor, but I do carry a pager. Recently, we were out with friends for dinner and my pocket started to vibrate. I reached in and pulled out my pager. Our younger friends looked at me with suspicion – I think they might have only […]
Goals: Write Them Down!
Blog #217 Recently, Reka and I returned from a conference in Dallas where we took a few extra days to have our own personal retreat. Since we are both essentially Solopreneurs, this works well for us. Because our business and personal lives have become so intertwined, we weave in a combination of our business objectives […]
Define Success on Your Terms, Part 2
Blog #214 Last week, we discussed The Life Balance Wheel and how you can use it to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses by defining them in your own terms. This week, we are going to take it a step further. We are going to provide you with a tool to help define what […]
Define Success on Your Terms, Part 1
Blog #213 I’m going to go out on a limb here: I think we have lost perspective on what success looks like. We have abdicated this role to reality TV, big advertising, our peers, even our parents. Contrary to what our country’s media shares with us, I believe we are living in the most exciting […]