Stage 6, with 96 to 160 employees requires a longer, more strategic focus for the leader and a laser-like focus on your ability to connect to your employees.Remember the buggy whip? Some would say the..

I believe strategic planning is not all it's cracked up to be. In fact, pick up a copy of the January, 2006 Harvard Business Review and you'll find that strategic planning sometimes only serves as a m..

Knowing when to delegate both responsibility and authority is hard for the owner of a growing business. The question that looms in your mind is: what if they (an employee) mess up?Just the other day a..

The second phone call came a week after the first. I had explained on the first call that we really weren't hiring right now. I was a bit surprised when I was told who was on the line. The thought tha..

You are stranded on a desert island and you only have 30 seconds left on your cell phone battery -- could your second-in-command back at your office tell you in those 30 seconds how well your company ..

The honeymoon is over. You have your start up capital, you ramped up to 4 -- 6 employees pretty quickly and now the fun begins. Getting out of the gate with a new company isn't easy but it's a cake wa..