by AJ | Jan 31, 2022 | Everyone Rises
Why are people-centric solutions such a critical piece to strategic planning for small businesses? Because it all comes down to people. Your success depends on the partners you choose, the investors you find, the employees you hire and the customers you attract. This...
by AJ | Jan 18, 2022 | Everyone Learns, Everyone Rises
Several years ago, I attended a quarterly leadership meeting where we compared two seemingly similar words. The words were “reaction” and “response.” The longer the discussion went on, the less similar the two words appeared to be. The discussion was led by one of the...
by AJ | Oct 13, 2021 | Everyone Rises, Everyone's Unique
We All Live With “Always Problems” As unique human beings living and working together, we experience problems. Our problems make it difficult to accomplish our tasks, achieve our desired results or simply connect with others. This has become really important in...
by AJ | Aug 19, 2021 | Everyone Rises
I was meeting with a client recently when an interesting conversation began between the two owners. Their company had just won a considerable amount of new business (excellent news), but leaders weren’t taking time to celebrate the success with their teams. As they...
by AJ | May 7, 2021 | Everyone Rises
Contentment vs. Continuous Improvement Of all the qualities we look for in leaders, contentment isn’t one of them. The very idea of contentment – and a content leader – seems to be an attack on our sacred standard of continuous improvement. We each know...