Tag: Decision Making
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Reactive vs Proactive Business: The ‘Everything Is Urgent’ Trap
Most founders will admit they spend more time responding than leading. Whether it’s an unexpected customer issue, a team conflict, or a supply chain hiccup, reactive behavior quickly becomes the default for founders, owners, operators, and early hires. So much so that urgency loses its meaning and everything feels immediate. This is especially true for…
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Data Small Business Owners Need to Make Perfect Decisions: 15 Examples
Founders and owners hear a lot of talk about “big data,” usually framed as something transformative, expensive, and out of reach as an option for the data small businesses have. Most of that messaging is written for enterprise companies with dedicated analytics teams, complex systems, and budgets that make sophisticated data infrastructure realistic. For small…
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Founder Firefighting: How Small Problems Masquerade as Emergencies
Ah, the timeless pain of founder firefighting. As founders, we quickly learn that our days get hijacked by “fires.” A customer bug here, a revenue dip there, a slack thread that lights up like a distress flare. Over time, this pattern begins to feel normal, and often, almost inevitable. But this lived normalcy masks a…
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A Hard Balance: Urgent vs Important In Small Business
It can be hard for founders and owners to draw a line when it comes to urgent vs important in small business. In the daily flux of running a small business, it’s common to feel like everything urgently demands your attention. When the phones are ringing, inboxes are filling, clients are pushing, and metrics keep…
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Stressed? 4 Devastating Reasons Why Everything Feels Urgent, And Why Most of It Isn’t
Everything feels urgent at work! At some point in their career, almost every founder or operator feels like everything at work is pressing, critical, or urgent. The inbox is full. Slack pings demand immediate attention. Meetings fill up your calendar. Tasks stack up faster than you can cross them off. When this happens, it’s easy…
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Exclusive: Business Intelligence for Small Businesses and How to Make Clearer, More Confident Decisions
Most small business owners are already doing some version of Business Intelligence. They just don’t call it that. They call it “trying to understand what happened last month,” or “figuring out why sales dipped,” or “deciding whether the next hire should be a marketing contractor or a part-time employee.” In other words, BI is the…
