by Stephanie | Everyday Leadership for Smart Women podcast, Planning + Productivity
In today’s episode we’ll be talking about why working harder is not the answer. Too many entrepreneurs buy into the idea that sheer effort is the key to more success. They worry that if they don’t keep up a frenetic pace or hustle more, they...
by Stephanie | Leadership, Planning + Productivity
The greatest gift of being a small business owner is freedom of choice. We get to choose our path, our business model, how we price our services, who we take on as clients, how we spend our time and everything in between. The choice is ours. And that feels pretty...
by Stephanie | Entrepreneurship, Planning + Productivity
Look behind the curtain of any successful company, and you’ll see a myriad of systems, tools, people and technology that make it work. And different stages of business require the addition (or deletion) of different resources. When you’re bootstrapping it, you can...
by Stephanie | Leadership, Planning + Productivity
Are you taking the long and winding road to success? Tomorrow I’m heading to the Banff Centre in the heart of the rocky mountains to attend an alumni retreat for Leadership Calgary, a community leadership program I took in 2004. It’s going to be an...
by Stephanie | Leadership, Planning + Productivity
Time has been on my mind a lot. As I spoke of in this post, my schedule went through a radical 180 this Fall and I feel like I’m just now settling in. As a client and friend said last week, “I was so happy to turn the page to October.” I couldn’t agree more. As I’ve...
by Stephanie | Everyday Leadership for Smart Women podcast, Planning + Productivity
I promise this won’t be a post trying to motivate you to make more happen for this final quarter. It won’t be a post that reminds you that there’s still lots of time to make progress on the work that matters (even though that’s true). And it certainly won’t be a...