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Stop Hoarding Knowledge and Increase Your Company Value

Knowledge is not power. Sharing knowledge is power. General Stanley Mc Chrystal Information age people still think that knowledge is power. I know, therefore I have the power. This thinking will sink your company in the long term. At our May Acumen Advanced Leadership Workshop, we welcomed Scot Hunsaker, a former business owner and now …

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How Random Free Coffee has Increased My Spending At Panera (and what your business can learn from it)

Me: “I’ll have a drink please.” She: “Here you go (hands me cup), there’s no charge today.” Me: (Looks around suspiciously … the manager is within earshot … why is this person handing me a free cup? Accepts cup) “Thank you, I’m very grateful for that.” (goes and fills drink still waiting for someone to …

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Quack, Quack!

I drive my wife crazy sometimes. One of my pet peeve’s when we travel or dine out is to carefully observe the service experience. As the owner of a couple of service businesses, I’ve always found it ironic that many of my competitors failed when it came to delivering service. Frankly, I was always glad they did. …

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Jon Schram

Growth Catalyst - Kansas City

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Jon is a husband to his wife Jill, a dad to Gracie, Cooper and Lucy and an unintentional serial entrepreneur.  Jon founded and led one of KC’s leading IT Support companies (The Purple Guys), regularly recognized on the Inc. 5000 list, the Corporate Report’s Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies, a Best Place to Work and being one of the KC Chamber Top 10 Small Businesses of the Year. Before that, he founded and grew an IT Staffing firm, growing from $0 to $10M in revenue in just 4 years, being recognized as Kansas City’s Fastest Growing Company. He’s passionate about leadership and businesses that impact their community. From experience he also understands the issues of an owner/CEO. Jon is an entrepreneur who likes to empower others to grow their business, become more efficient in all they do and enrich their story line. He has been a member of the Acumen community since its inception. 

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