Have you ever thought, “How can they still not get it?” This is not that blog about the fact that you need a vision (you do). This is not that blog about how to write a vision, or that it needs to be significant and compelling (it does). Let’s assume that you’ve done that well. …
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I’m so old. I was in a meeting where people were talking about DTR-ing before they were married. They were laughing about it. I was clueless. I couldn’t help myself, so I sighed, got real humble-like, and then asked: “What’s DTR?” (I’m so old.) It turns out that DTR means define the relationship. Dating has gotten …
As teenagers, my parents forced us to talk about what we learned that day at dinner (the horror). Also as teenagers, we had bad speaking habits. One of them was the word “like.” Like was a word that came before, during, and after sentences to fill the dead space. It had no reason to be …
Where do you want to go to dinner? This is a seemingly simple question, yet ask it in a car full of your family and you might as well be trying to negotiate Brexit and ending the government shutdown. The way this goes in my house is one person throws out and option and then …
I have been a member OrangeTheory Fitness for about a year and half now (no they did not pay me to say that). I was working out today and marveling at how they keep me interested in coming back. A year is a long time for me to do anything when it comes to working out. I …
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“I reply to my emails within 10 minutes if not sooner. My team loves it. My clients always know that they come first.” “What? That’s ludicrous. I see why your team and clients like it, but how do you run your company that way? Do you do anything but put our fires?” “Uh … “ …
DO YOU MAKE THESE MISTAKES WHEN TEXTING YOUR TEAM? Have you added texting to your media mix when you communicate with your team? Leaders are embracing texting over other mediums to connect and execute due to the ease and “right now” feel. It’s also ruining your team’s engagement with you. Like any other medium, there …
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She dropped the ring in the sand. CRAP! The SAND! Whose dumb idea was it to ask her to marry me on a beach!? Oh yeah, mine. This just went from a moment we will cherish for the rest of our lives to one where I may freak out before she has a chance to …
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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.