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Building a legacy on persistence and talent
Read more: Building a legacy on persistence and talentOn Building Loved Businesses, I’ve had the privilege of hearing some remarkable stories—but this one spans nearly a century of reinvention, resilience, and disciplined entrepreneurship. In this episode, I sat down with Joe Slavens, steward of a multi-generation family enterprise based in Davenport, Iowa. Over almost 100 years, Joe’s family has built—and rebuilt—businesses across banking,…
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From hobby to business with Wezz De La Rosa
Read more: From hobby to business with Wezz De La RosaOn this week’s episode of Building Loved Businesses, I sat down with someone whose work quietly shapes the way families and businesses show up in the world.Wezz De La Rosa isn’t just a photographer and videographer—he’s a storyteller who helps people feel seen, confident, and connected long before they ever step in front of his…
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Winning or Learning: Embracing Feedback for Growth
Read more: Winning or Learning: Embracing Feedback for GrowthWe grow by learning. Everyone likes that. But we learn more through failures than triumphs. That we don’t love. As John Maxwell said, you’re either winning or learning. That means we learn more from unhappy clients and employees than we do from happy ones. That’s why it’s so important to fight for feedback. As a…
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Join the AI Revolution for Business Growth
Read more: Join the AI Revolution for Business GrowthAI won’t steal your job. But, if you’re not using AI to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your business, someone who has mastered AI just might. How can I say that? I help business leaders get more efficient, build better systems, and prioritize their time. And AI is the best tool to assist that…
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Education: Key to Adapting in a Disruptive World
Read more: Education: Key to Adapting in a Disruptive World“Education is inoculation against disruption.” Robin Sharma I read this line in The Wealth Money Can’t Buy and it immediately recalled two things for me. First was how different Black Friday is from a decade ago. There are no more newspapers filled with fliers in the days before. No more long lines at stores before…
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The importance of used book sales
Read more: The importance of used book salesIn one word, why are used book sales such an important part of my learning? Serendipity. I always find great books I wasn’t looking for. When I’m looking for a book to help me learn something, that’s a known unknown. But serendipity can lead me to an unknown unknown. It can lead me to learn…
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Can AI replace your business coach?
Read more: Can AI replace your business coach?Can AI replace me? Can you get leadership coaching from AI? According to one of the top executive coaches in the world, the answer is… …yes. And that’s a good thing. Why? Because it forces coaches to be what they should be, with or without AI. I’ll get to all that in a minute. But…
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Don’t tell me you’re learning. Show me.
Read more: Don’t tell me you’re learning. Show me.You say you’re a learning organization? I say, “show me.” Saying that you are a learning organization is easy. But what you do is who you are. So, if you’re not doing the things that learning organizations do, you’re not a learning organization.
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Do you need a growth partner?
Read more: Do you need a growth partner?In 2022, after almost two decades in business, Vince Wuebker, founder and CEO of HotSpring Spas and Pool Tables 2, sensed that his company of 50 people had outgrown their current structure. But his leadership team wasn’t sure where to turn. Fortunately for Vince, a friend referred him to FiveFour and that was exactly what…
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Good leaders don’t need to be right
Read more: Good leaders don’t need to be rightGood leaders care more about getting to the right answer than having the right answer. I was coaching a new leader recently, whose working model of leadership was that the leader comes up with all of the answers. Through our coaching, he said that it was an epiphany to him that his job as a…
