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Organizational Engineering is critical to business success.

According to Wikipedia, "the conative is one of three parts of the mind, along with the affective and cognitive.

Your constraint is limiting your profits. But despite this fact, companies often focus on the wrong things – like cost cutting, product costing or cost accounting, and efficiency. If you really want to maximize profits your focus needs to change.

A publicly-traded company that doesn't have an office? A first fully distributed company delivering products and services based on distributed software platforms?

For most entrepreneurs, starting a business is the worst job you could ever possibly have. It's hard work, and it never ends!

A thriving workplace is one in which employees feel connected to the purpose and mission of the organization and can contribute in meaningful ways.

There are different types of CEOs. Most are baby boomers. Most will have to sell their business in the next 10, at most 20 years. While in business, the CEOs who spend a significant amount (25%+) of time IN rather than ON their business – experience ‘pain.’

Organizational Engineering is critical to business success.

Entrepreneurs often fail to make the time to work “on” their organizations; learning how to protect competitive work from the every day “necessary” work; and to build organizational models that can scale.

Like all others humans, leaders behave in certain ways in certain situations. Often, they display simple behavioral tics – bad habits they repeat dozens of times a day in the workplace, and which ultimately diminish their ability to lead.

Creating opportunity in excess of what one's infrastructure can handle by optimizing, automating, and outsourcing.

How do you hire top talent into a small, entrepreneurial business?

In every organization, there are communication breakdowns. In some, they can lead to inefficiency and in others they can lead to complete implosion.

All small business owners are usually the best to do the job but struggle with breaking that mold and achieving self sustaining independent growth.

Do you find it difficult to keep focused on the most meaningful and important things in your work day and create the work-life blend you crave?

You may have bought into the myth that operating a business requires exceptionally long hours, lots of hard work, and sacrifice. While that’s clearly true in the early stages of a business life cycle, owning or operating a business should not be viewed as a life sentence of hard time.

Not all managers are leaders. Conversely, not all leaders are managers. Some individuals lead from behind, regardless of their corporate rank.

What are the positive impacts of freeing up the wrong-fit team members who are no longer thriving in an organization?

A business plan starts with a strategic review of the business which involves discussing Strengths and Weaknesses (internal review) and Opportunities and Threats (external review).

When speaking with fellow business owners and leaders, one of the top three challenges mentioned is always hiring and retention.