Looking at Your Cash
The final piece of the equation to assess the Current State of Our Business is to review our bank account. The bank account of a business is like its financial heartbeat, providing real-time insight into the operational liquidity and cash reserves available for...
Beyond the Balance Sheet: AR and AP as Cash Catalysts
We are still assessing the Current State of our Business. In our journey to gain comprehensive control over our business finances, it’s essential to look beyond the Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Statement. While the Balance Sheet is indeed a foundational...
Assessing the Now: The Current State of Your Business
Now onwards to our next step on our journey. Having established what we want and our commitment to achieving it, it’s time to evaluate where we stand today. This step is crucial in charting the path forward, and it seems to me that business owners of a lot of small...
Beyond the Surface: Exploring the Depths of Business Commitment
In this edition, we’re applying our ‘7 Levels Deep’ questioning technique to a specific example. Let’s imagine a client who aims to earn $500,000 in net profit. Through our probing, we reveal the profound personal reasons behind this financial...
The Power of Probing Questions in Business and in Everything Else
Welcome to the latest installment of our journey into the heart of business strategy. In this edition, we explore a tool that’s as simple as it is profound: the art of asking a question seven levels deep. This technique is more than just an exercise in...
The Power of Why: Fueling Unwavering Commitment to Your Goals
By now I hope that you have set some specific targets for your business to reach by a specific time (especially your fiscal year end point). You have to have kind of plant that mental flag in the horizon on that mountaintop that you want to reach. Such clarity not...
From Vague to Victory: The Power of Specific Goals in Business
In our last discussion, we ventured into the strategic habit of beginning with the end in mind. This edition is dedicated to crystallizing that vision into tangible business goals. What is that goal you wish to reach? Defining Your Business Aspirations As we navigate...
Start With The End In Mind
Helping my clients achieve a better result one of the very first questions is about what it is they wish to achieve. It’s a natural question to ask because I need to understand what I need to be working on with them. But the question is so much more than just...
