You’ve grown your middle market business from nothing and nurtured it through years of ups and downs. Suddenly, though, you find yourself feeling like a startup again. You’ve identified a …
Three Keys to Scalability
For Middle Market businesses, complacency isn’t an option. Essentially, you grow or you die. The question, though, is, how do you grow? And the answer is scalability. The money you …
Are You A Disruptor or Are You Being Disrupted?
Disruptive technology has existed ever since the invention of movable type, but the pace at which disruption occurs is increasing exponentially. And there are plenty of examples of what happens …
On How To Be A “Middle Market David”
Awhile ago, a Middle Market company with great products had a tough time competing against the market’s biggest players. Not anymore. The social media revolution means that retail is anyone’s …
Leading from the Future
Management and leadership are future-oriented activities. To be strategic implies having a long time horizon, and engaging with current activities and choices from that broader perspective. To think about (and …
Are you Staying Personally Connected to your Team?
Being a Middle Market CEO is in many ways comparable to raising teenagers: You’re no longer providing the day-to-day life-sustaining interactions that an infant needs, but you’re not off the …
Middle Market Women on the Move!
Smart Middle Market CEOs recognize that women in their workforce have different development needs, expertise and skills than their male counterparts. And women executives in Middle Market firms don’t always …
On Creating Opportunity out of Inconvenience
Albert Szent-Györgyi, the famous Hungarian physiologist who discovered the benefits of Vitamin C, once said, “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” Think …