Tag: Transition

If you have ever hit a pothole on the street or bumped into a curb at a higher rate of speed, you might have noticed your vehicle beginning to pull to the right or left.  At first, you notice the difference and are a bit upset that the pothole or curb caused this issue. As time passes, you may become accustomed to the vehicle’s tendency to veer off in a direction other than straight. You tell yourself that you will get around to fixing it, but more time goes by, and it just slips into the ‘yet-to-be-done’ column of your to-do list. The vehicle is still drivable, so you go along with business as usual.

Alignment keeps the organization rolling in the proper directionRead More »

Given the honor of working with many business leaders over the years, JKL Associates has witnessed owners making inaccurate assessments of their businesses’ growth.  They saw gross revenues increase, but so did expenses; as a result, the net outcome was merely a churn of dollars.  The actual asset growth was stagnant. They had a false impression that their “Work” contributes to asset growth, but only caused them to work more and harder for more of the same, or in some cases, less.

Are you building an asset or putting in timeRead More »

As we pause to celebrate and give thanks for all the bounty of our land, our work, our community, our family, and our God, may we be humbled in our gratitude.

JKL Associates thanks you who we have the honor of providing insights into the world of building a “Promise Culture” for the betterment of self, organization, and society.

Thanksgiving 2025Read More »

Next week unofficially starts the beginning of the holiday season. It’s hard to believe, but there are only about 25 business days left until the end of the calendar year. So it is “Crunch Time!” This time of the year is filled with wrapping up not only presents, but on the business side, all the open ends of the goals established last fall for 2025. At the same time, we are reviewing our 2025 progress and setting business plans and objectives for 2026. This is the time of year when our parallel processing is put to the test.

Crunch Time!Read More »

Back in the mid-80s, Bob Geldof (Irish songwriter and activist) and colleagues set out on a mission to address a hunger crisis in Ethiopia. Through song releases and a worldwide simulcast concert typically known as “Live Aid,” the world’s humanity engaged in generating millions of dollars to assist in this famine effort.   It was the first of its kind endeavor for such a critical need. Fundamentally, the mission was to bring worldwide attention to an area of the world and its real-life-threatening challenges that, for the most part, were not on the minds of many.

Direct path to greater contribution – Develop Self-worthRead More »

Ever have that gut-wrenching feeling that your plan was destined to fail? All the preparation would go down the drain, and you would be left with nothing? Have you ever pondered the thought of having to start over after investing time, money, and a lot of emotional and mental energy into your future? If these questions caused a reaction, then at some point in time in your history, you experienced a level of doubt.

Doubt can be the enemy of successRead More »

Tomorrow is the day of Trick or Treats. Children will don costumes of various characters from heroes to villains.  This is their opportunity to project one of their fantasies into the world.  As leaders, it is important that we recognize this critical development activity for our children and future workforce.  This creativity is necessary to build problem-solving skills.  They explore the realities of what heroes or villains contribute or take away from society. 

Halloween 2025Read More »

At JKL Associates, we engage our clients under the Promise Culture Model. It is a framework to build a successful, stable, sustainable, and profitable business upon. At its core are Purpose, Values, Principles, and the various relationships of all the parties to the organization. The framework or platform is the structure or foundation, but in order for it to flourish, the relationships – the people-to-people intersection MUST be rooted in trust. An organization can have a well-articulated purpose, vision, mission, and the like, but when the behaviors and actions of the people are contrary to those words, then trust fails.

Can’t build Culture without TrustRead More »

We have all arrived in our roles in business through various channels.  Some might have started the business from the ground up. Some might have purchased an existing business and now guide its future. Others might have been hired in and risen through the ranks to a level of leadership. Still others might have been part of a family’s business legacy and continued to nurture it forward.  Regardless of your situation, we can all look back and recall moments in our business life where we thought a given plan of action was going to be fairly simple, yet turned out to be anything but simple. Business leadership is just that way.

What seems so simple is not always the caseRead More »

Are your customer or employee engagement plans increasing loyalty or holding people hostage?

Loyalty or HostageRead More »