Accelerated Growth Consulting

Most of us entrepreneurial leaders find the whole issue of managing employees to be an Achilles heel. It’s just not part of our wiring because we’re usually self-motivated and driven people and, more to the point, most of us have always been our own bosses. However, whether or not something is natural to us or [...]

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 [...]

Do you remember that famous line from Top Gun when Tom Cruise, in his nicer days :-), said, "I feel the need, the need for speed!" There’s a lot of truth to that isn’t there? You feel it, don’t you? When you call customer support, you don’t want to be put on hold for twenty [...]

I was meeting with a client this week when a typical problem arose, "How can we do all this, when we’re already overloaded?" Sound familiar? Well, the answer is, "You can’t . . . if you keep operating the way you are." In other words, nothing changes unless something changes. Or to put it another [...]

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, [...]

If there’s one thing I keep saying over and over again to my clients it’s this, "Subtract before you add." Why?  Because the natural tendency for most of us is to keep adding and adding and then adding some more.  But in this world of overwhelming complexity and breakneck speed, if we keep adding more [...]

Earlier this evening, I had a few minutes between my taxi routine for my daughters (you know, pick them up at 4:30 p.m., then take them back out at 5:00 p.m.) so i decided to take a few moments and see what’s new on iTunes (hey, it’s Sunday afternoon and everyone needs a little down [...]

The number one response for most people when asked why they don’t pursue their dreams is  . . . "I just don’t have enough time." Well, the reason why we often struggle with that is because we often think that addition comes before subtraction—but that’s rarely true in real life.  In real life, most of [...]

Everyday, as Christian leaders, we’re placed in a position where the amount of tasks facing us is always greater than the amount of time we have to accomplish them.  In addition, everyday, we’re required (or asked or expected) to do things that we really don’t want to do.  So, how do we respond to this?  [...]

My father (the real Don Johnson) shared a simple (but incredibly important) lesson with me the other day.  We were having lunch when he mentioned something he had learned from one of his business partners years ago.  He said, "One of the things I learned from Ben was to act on what you’re thinking about [...]