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The Manager Who Cried Wolf and the Power of Predictability
Change is all but guaranteed. Too much self-inflicted change creates chaos. The power of predictability helps your company create experts, and a company of experts sets your business apart. Learn how to stop crying wolf and take control of the change at your company.
How to Fix Middle Management
Whether your managers have hit “The Peter Principle” or they just don’t want to lead, this article will teach you what to look out for so you make informed choices about your leaders and give you the tools to set up any leader for success.
Burnout Hits Efficiency, Job Performance, Customer Service, and Innovation, But Companies Can Fix It
Burnout affects 55% of the American workforce and hurts efficiency, job performance, customer service, and innovation. Businesses can put out the flames of burnout by following a few key steps, taken from The Healthy Company Framework.
The Best Way to Grow Your Business
Grow your business like you grow your garden and tend to the things that matter. See how The Healthy Company Framework teaches you how to best cultivate a blooming business.
How Owning Your Failures Heals Your Business
Great leaders look out the window to praise others when things go well and look in the mirror to own mistakes. Ask these questions to create a culture that owns its contributions to inevitable failures and watch your business grow and flourish like never before.
The Lasting Impact of Toxic Leadership and How to Rebuild Trust
The lasting impact of bad leadership is a real issue most companies ignore. The toxic leaders you let stick around are the fuel that’s pouring into the fires of your business. You must do the work to put out the fire, rebuild, and regain trust. The Healthy Company Framework and Company Connections helps you rebuild.
Affirmation The Healthy Company Framework is the Greatest New Business Methodology
Is The Healthy Company Framework the greatest new business methodology? True or not, there is no shortage of articles that call out the same thing: companies contribute to the burnout of their employees. The Healthy Company Framework is your solution.
The Power of Demonstrating Belief in Your Business and Your People
You believe in what you do. You believe in your company’s products and services. But, do you demonstrate that same level of belief in the people you’ve hired? Read how the power of demonstrating belief impacts your business.
Too Busy to Change? Try Self Healing
Sometimes we fall into the trap of thinking we’re too busy to take a break or improve. But it’s in those moments where taking a break may be the most important thing you can do. Read how Self Healing is one of the best ways to improve your business and improve your life.
The Forest for the Trees, or How to Successfully Combine the Big Picture with the Details of Your Business
Sometimes we miss the forest for the trees. And sometimes, we forget how important the trees are as we look to achieve the big picture. Read more to learn how to successfully marry together the big picture with the details of your business.
Would I Enjoy My Buying Experience? Remembering the Customer
Would you enjoy buying your product from your company—without being an expert about your product or company? Read more to learn about the best way to keep customers coming back.
Why Isn’t AI Working?
Why isn’t AI working? Where’s the boon we were promised? Instead of flushing money down the toilet, the best way to leverage AI is to apply it to efficient processes. The way to do that? Create efficient processes.
Save Your Company by Listening
Many issues you face in your company have been present for years. Even NASA isn’t immune to the effects of not listening. What does this do to your company, and how do you overcome this?
To Leave a Legacy
What does it mean to leave a legacy? Most definitions include a common theme: leaving something that outlasts you. But how do you avoid the pitfalls of your “life’s work” becoming your albatross? Turn your albatross into a gift as you seek to leave a lasting legacy.
The Cost of an (Un)Engaged Employee
The cost of employing an unengaged employee cost the company 40% more than those who found meaning in their work. When no connection to the vision exists, no connection between the work and the outcome exists, and engagement is lost. Create connection to the vision by…
Employee Engagement, or how to capture misengaged and disengaged employees
“Could you pass the salt?” asked my friend’s grandmother to her friend. “Yeah, I thought they could have passed on the salt,” she replied, asking a third friend, “Wouldn’t you say?” “I saw where that guy was assaulted. Horrible stuff,” the friend replied.
This is much the story of many a successful company. Talking at each other, but not to each other.
How to Scale
To scale, Identify where you are the bottleneck, Document it, and Communicate with those around you.
The Foundations of Scaling Your Business
The company that connects each employee’s work to their vision, proactively heals and documents to help others only miss things once, and understands who works immediately right and left of them is the company that will scale.