Your business is booming. Revenue is up 50% from last year. Your profit margins look good on paper. You're winning deals. Clients are happy. By every traditional metric, you should feel successful.
The Delegation Trap: Why You Can't Scale If You Won't Let Go
You built this business. You know how it works. You know how you like things done. You know the standards, the processes, the expectations.
So when you delegate, it doesn't get done the way you'd do it. Someone takes twice as long. The quality isn't quite there. A detail gets missed. So you step back in, fix it, and tell yourself you'll try again next time.
Failure Is Not The Opposite of Success: How to Navigate the Inevitable and Keep Moving
The Loneliness of Leadership: Why You Need a Sounding Board
You're making decisions that nobody else in your business can understand.
A tradie running a growing construction firm is wondering if he should take on a major contract, it could double revenue, but it might break his team. He can't talk to his crew about it because they'll panic. He can't tell his wife the full extent of the stress because she's already worried. So he sits with it alone.
The Hidden Hiring Decision: How to Know When You Need Help (and What Kind)
Your team keeps dropping hints. "We're stretched thin." "Can we get another person on this?" "I'm drowning in requests."
You hear them. But you're not sure if they're right. Maybe they just need to work smarter. Maybe you're being generous and they'd actually be fine. Maybe bringing someone new on will create more problems than it solves.
Stop Skipping the Process Step: Why Systems Matter Before Scale
The Chaos Trap: When Growing Faster Means Everything Breaks at Once
You're hiring. Your existing team is stretched thin. A major client is demanding more attention. Your systems can't keep up. A process that used to work is now bottlenecking everything. And somehow, all of this is happening at the same time.
If this feels like your business right now, here's what I want you to know: You're not falling apart. You're scaling.
The Path to Mastery: Eliminating Obstacles for Sustainable Growth
In the pursuit of success, mastery is often perceived as the relentless honing of one's skills and expertise. However, true masters understand that mastery transcends technical proficiency alone. It's about cultivating an environment conducive to peak performance by identifying and eliminating the obstacles, distractions, and unnecessary hindrances that impede progress.
The Parallel Journeys: Lessons from Business Building and Film Producing
As both a business coach and indie film producer, I have navigated the exhilarating yet challenging paths of entrepreneurship and filmmaking. In a recent podcast interview, watch here and listen here, I was privileged to share insights that reveal striking similarities between these two vastly different pursuits.
Business Plans Are Worthless Without Accountability
The oft-forgotten business plan is actually an essential tool for any entrepreneur. Not only can it help to clarify a business idea and identify potential challenges, but it can also serve as a valuable reference tool, helping the entrepreneur to measure progress and make informed decisions about the future direction of the business.