by Cary Matthews | Apr 23, 2024 | Culture, Leadership, Strategic Planning
Whether you mean to or not, you are constantly communicating to your employees. You must be intentional about the messages they receive. I learned this from dogs and children, and our grown-up employees are just as observant. My dog observes what I do and modifies his...
by Cary Matthews | Mar 21, 2024 | Fractional COO, Strategic Planning, Strategy, System & Soul
I’ll say it: many – or maybe most – strategic plans aren’t worth the paper they are printed on.A plan that no one sees, never gets updated, gathers dust on the shelf, and is too complex or long for anyone to ever read, isn’t doing you or...
by Cary Matthews | Mar 14, 2024 | coaching, Organizational Health, Success
“They’re a well-coached team.”If you watch college football (or your team sport of choice), you’ve heard this assessment before, most likely talking about a winning team. What does that look like? – Every position on the team knows their...
by Cary Matthews | Feb 6, 2024 | change, Fractional COO, Success
“Begin with the end in mind.” Sometimes “The End” is a scary thing to think about. Not always – the end of a bad situation or rough period of time can be something we look forward to. But often the simple uncertainty of something coming to a close is enough to cause...
by Cary Matthews | Feb 6, 2024 | Culture, Fractional COO, Success
We learn a lot as kids that we forget or ignore when it comes to our jobs and businesses. Watching a youth baseball game this weekend, I saw a team of nine year old kids model how we can be better at work. What lessons from sports can we apply to running a business?...
