Most visionaries are not excited by their business operations. 

They started their business to make an impact, innovate, and drive growth, not to manage the day-to-day details.

As the operational leader, it’s your job to ensure the business runs like a well-oiled machine, allowing the founder to stay focused on their big-picture vision.

Your role is critical. You’re the one who makes sure the systems are in place, the team is supported, and operations run smoothly.

But supporting a visionary...

As we enter the last three months of the year and come out of summer, you might find your founder looking to generate short-term cash flow to make up for slower summer revenue or to hit financial targets for the year.

This year has seen a lot of changes in buyer behaviors, and figuring out what's working has felt like a moving target for many small businesses in the coaching, consulting, and service-based space.

As the operational leader, you play a critical role in making sure the strategies ...

There are countless ways that AI can be leveraged to both simplify and scale your business, with new tools, technologies, and techniques being introduced every day. 

Yet most small businesses are significantly underutilizing AI as a means of saving time and money and balancing innovation with efficiency.

Just a few of the many benefits of using AI include:

• Enhanced Efficiency and Productivity: AI can automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks, allowing your team to focus on higher-value a
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Time = money.  And I have yet to find a business that doesn't have hidden time and money within their business in the form of waste.

Also known as muda, waste is the killer of productivity and efficiency. 

There are many forms of waste.  For this post, we are going to focus on wasted time, which in turn results in wasted money.

• How much time do you and your team spend searching for things?  For product-based businesses, this could be physical inventory to pack and ship an order, or for serv
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