The Rainmaker Blog – Building People, Leaders, Teams & Economic Moats (4)

Your Personality Is Someone's Experience

Apr 16, 2024

How others experience your personality not only impacts your overall leadership effectiveness, how others experience your personality has the potential to profoundly impact the ...

A race between the fox and the hedgehog concept

Scaling Up

Unleash the Power of the Hedgehog Concept

Feb 11, 2024

If you are like me, you have read Good to Great by Jim Collins multiple times. Chances are you also have a special place on your bookshelf reserved in perpetuity for this great ...

Executive team is healthy and aligned as a First Team

Team Effectiveness

Mastering the 'First Team' Principle: An Essential Guide for Leaders Serious About Scaling Their Business

Oct 24, 2023

Scaling is not negotiable. Your business is scaling or it is not. Business leaders, entrepreneurs, and those in the C-suite must pay attention. The 'First Team' concept from ...

Mindset

The Best Is Yet to Come: Embracing Optimism & Gratitude with Stoic Realism

Oct 17, 2023

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” — Isaac Newton Truer words have never been spoken. One of my "pillar mentors" - the late Bill Bonnstetter - ...

Scaling Up a Business Requires a Healthy and Aligned Executive Team

Scaling Up Rockefeller Habits Team Effectiveness

Rockefeller Habit #1: Is Your Executive Team Healthy and Aligned?

Oct 3, 2023

Think back to a time when an executive team you were a part of or worked for was not healthy and aligned. The greater the disease and misalignment in your executive team, the ...

Discipline is the key to achieving results.

Scaling Up

A Culture of Discipline: Ignition Points for CEOs Serious About Scaling Up Their Business

Sep 12, 2023

Prelude: Scaling Your Company Is NOT a Sideline Strategy If you are the Founder / CEO of a business venture and obsessed with scaling your Company, this is your zero hour. Forget ...

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Workshop / Training 5

Team Effectiveness

What are the Five Dysfunctions of a Team and Why Do They Matter?

Feb 16, 2023

Let's get real. Most teams are not operating anywhere near their true potential. Vulnerability-based Trust is lower than it should be. Productive, ideological debate is not ...

Scaling Up

Mastering the Rockefeller Habits

Sep 13, 2022

As a management consultant, trusted advisor and coach to those I am privileged to serve, I help guide my Clients in designing their path to a better future. As an outsider ...

Scaling Up

5 Answers to Your Scaling Up Questions

Sep 13, 2022

Over the past couple of decades, I have had the privilege or reading a LOT of books and attending many seminars / workshops / retreats. Precious few have had the impact on my ...

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