So, the 2022 elections are in the history records for the most part and hopefully the marketplace can begin to find its rightful place of balance and returning to steady growth. The past few years have been a bit of a roller coaster ride with the ups and downs of the pandemic, the twists and turns of the political landscape and any number of other social distractions along the path. All of these various elements…
Leader is a term which over the years has evolved to, in some cases, replace such words as manager or supervisor. In its’ replacement, the associated behaviors of the manager, supervisor or even boss have remained attached to the label of leader. As a result, even though…
As business leaders we can sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day stuff of our business transactions that we don’t stop and dream. We are so focused on the next thing on our to do list that we are not even sure sometimes how all those items add up to the vision or dreams we have for our business, our staff, our families, our communities etc.
An organizations’ growth is many times associated to the size of the marketplace it exists in or has the potential to exist in. This does have a contributing factor as the total capacity cannot exceed the arena your business plays in. Businesses therefore expand geographically if the available market for their product or service nears saturation. This expansion is very visible and has…
During the 2020-2021 business cycles, leaders were driven to look at their businesses, customers, products, services, and their staff through different lenses. They had to pivot to doing things differently than maybe they had in the most recent past. At the time the elements of the unknown and survival were part of the driving forces at hand. All these converging dynamics cause…
If you recall from your time back in school, you likely were introduced to Newton’s third Law of motion that indicated that when a force is placed on something there is a reaction which happens that has an equal amount of resulting force or motion. This law of motion applies to the growth and success of a business.
The culture that leadership cultivates in an organization is directly linked to the overall profitability of the organization. That is a pretty big statement to make when it is sometimes difficult to capture hard data to validate the statement. This week we share insights to help give some framework we have seen in this…
Planning your organizations next growth level can be either a joy or heartache. It all depends on where your mindset is when you approach the planning process…
Many years ago, when JKL Associates launched we were more than pleased when revenues exceeded expenses. It sounds simple but at the beginning without sales then no real business actually existed. To ensure survival the option existed to add multiple sources of income to the portfolio. In other words, take any opportunity which…
As business leaders we sometimes get so deep in the weeds of our business operations that we don’t take the time to lift our heads and look at the world around us. It is quite an interesting place when you give it a genuine look. For example, today is one of those fewer known days on the calendar….