You can only grow your business as big as you grow yourself. Julia Pimsleur In our monthly CEO mastermind forums, which we call councils, the team completes a Battle Assessment during one segment of the day. A battle assessment digs into how you are doing as a leader in your business and personally. It’s a …
I got two letters in the mail last month that were baffling. They came together in the same envelope. I read them six times and still wasn’t sure what was true. In fact, after reading them, I had more questions than answers. It caused a severe distrust for the organization, and now I’m searching for …
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“And then I found myself pointing at the clerk and strongly telling her my mask WAS on all the way. How can I try on glasses if the mask is up to the top of my nose?” Ah … the great mask debate. The quote above comes from a lunch conversation with an Acumen partner …
My favorite tweet theme (and LinkedIn now for that matter) currently goes something like this: “In order to be awesome, I read a book a week.” This sentiment may also be followed by expositions of awesomeness around other daily growth hack routines like getting 8 hours of sleep, working out, meditating, putting in a 12 …
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. —Winston Churchill Two weeks ago, at the end of my blog on Impact I wrote this: “Right now, you have a platform with an economic engine to change people’s world. It could be 10 people or 10,000. THIS …
nor·mal /ˈnôrməl/ the usual, average, or typical state or condition. – Oxford dictionary Are you waiting for the “new” normal? What are you waiting for? Normal hours Normal conversations Normal budgets Normal sales Normal offices Normal operations Normal teams Normal profits Normal clients Will it really be new? What about it will be normal? This …
“Powerful people have a hard time listening to payroll people, don’t they?” – Andy Stanley We’ve all read the stories of business people who have “made it” and then found a glorious way to blow it all up. I think the media enjoy finding these stories but it’s also a common thread to success. Why …
I had lunch at an actual restaurant with a client last week. We sat on the patio. It was awesome. It was the first time either of us had been outside “in real life” since all this began. OK – enough bragging, now onto the blog. I read an article last week that stated our …
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One of the discussions we’re currently having on our now weekly CEO team calls is “what does leadership look like now?” How do we replace the emergency room triage feel of the last 6 weeks and re-open well, hit the ground running, all while dealing with the weirdness? Here’s a window into those conversations and …
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For marathon runners, mile 19 is when the body bonks, there are chinks in the armor, and the mind starts talking negatively hoping to inspire quitting. Are you sprinting a marathon still? Are you cheering others on but feeling like it’s mile 19? Me too. And for whatever reason, most conversations I’ve had with Acumen …
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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.