Accelerated Growth Consulting

Are you starting to do your year-end evaluations—and wrestling with how you can do them well and/or differently this year? If you are, then you’ll want to continue reading this week’s Accelerated Growth Caffeine. I received an email a few days ago from one of my clients asking about whether or not I had a [...]

How many times have you thought about doing something that you know would be helpful or good or beneficial–and then not done it? I know, probably somewhere north of ten thousand times (at least that’s my running total). Well, this week, I’m on vacation at one of my favorite places on planet earth, Sea Pines [...]

Ever wonder what you ought to focus your time and attention on? With so many things on your plate, don’t you often wonder, “Where should I start?” But more importantly, as the point person for your company, it’s even more critical that you focus your attention on those activities that have the highest probability of [...]

Do you often feel frustrated at the end of the day–like you’ve worked hard, long and fast–and yet it still doesn’t feel like you’ve done enough? Believe it or not, one of the main culprits of that feeling is probably your ability to multi-task! In other words, one of the skills that you acquired as [...]

Are there some things in your life or business that you’d like to see changed–but haven’t? Or do you have any initiatives that never seem to get off the ground? Or, any employees that just never seem to get it? Well, what if I told you there was one simple phrase that could change all [...]

As you're coming to the end of this third quarter, have you noticed how easy it is to start checking out? Chances are that many of the goals you set last fall for this year are in many cases unattainable. Like most of us, you probably didn't anticipate how bad or how long the downturn [...]

Putting together a marketing plan is a challenge most small business leaders wrestle with. But the key to creating a winning marketing plan is to start by asking great questions. Why? Because the quality of the answers you get is directly related to the quality of the questions you ask. So to help you figure [...]

I don’t know if you’re a tennis fan, but this past Sunday’s achievement by Roger Federer at the US Open ought to WOW you. It was his tenth STRAIGHT grand slam final (no one else has even come close to that). It was his 12th grand slam title in total (putting him at number two [...]

Have you ever wondered why some people seem to consistently perform at a higher level than others? Or why some people in your organization seem to continually produce more remarkable results than others? Or why some organizations seem to be at the forefront of their industry or market, year after year? If you have, then [...]

I was talking with a friend of mine recently who’s a senior executive of a company just north of the Fortune 100. As we were talking, I asked him, "So what do you think separates you from other people? What do you think makes you so good at what you do?" Without hesitating, he said, [...]