My Toolbox

Tools for Growing Your Business

Hear are some of my favorite tools to help you Gain CLARITY on your business and personal growth, new perspectives and ideas, new approaches, and in-depth guides to help you succeed.

Note: Some links on this page are affiliate links. I only recommend products I know, love and trust.

Growth Tools

These are “Tried and True” tools to facilitate and accelerate your Strategic Thinking and Execution Planning.  Take your business to a new level!

Execution Canvas Implementation Guide PREVIEW

The Execution Canvas™

STRATEGY. A pragmatic 2-page business planning tool that you can complete and deploy rapidly to scale your business more profitably. Its implementation is simple. It will help Owners, CEOs, leadership teams, and companies overall be aligned, relevant, and timely.
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The Rockefeller Habits Checklist

Rockefeller Habits Checklist

EXECUTION. This Checklist provides the ten most important functions of everyday business that should be on automatic pilot in order for your business to run predictably and consistently. Click To Download.

Your Focus Determines Your Reality!

SWT Tool

STRATEGY. An updated approach that identifies inherent Strengths and Weaknesses within your company while exploring broader external Trends beyond your own industry or geography.
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Time to Lead

Start-Stop-Keep Survey

EXECUTION. A very simple, pragmatic and impactful tool that can help you and your leadership team frame planning discussions. Click To Download.

Recommended Reading

Some of these are “Oldies but Goodies!” They have helped me and my clients over and over again. Take a good look and see what applies to you and your growing business.

Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don’t

In Scaling Up, Verne Harnish and his contributors share practical tools and techniques for scaling an industry dominating business while enjoying the journey. Click For Your Copy.

Right Away & All At Once

Visionary business leader Greg Brenneman has written the 21st-century companion to Stephen Covey’s classic The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Click For Your Copy.

The leaders who have had the greatest influence in the world all think, act and communicate the same way—and it’s the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle. Click For Your Copy.

The new eighth edition of the pioneering guide to generating attention for your idea or business, jam-packed with new and updated techniques, keeping pace with the latest trends in social media and AI. Click For Your Copy.

Equal parts leadership fable and business handbook, this definitive source on teamwork by Patrick Lencioni reveals the five behavioral tendencies that go to the heart of why even the best teams struggle.
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Take your business to the next level by identifying the opportunities in your Simple Numbers. Greg Crabtree demystifies common accounting and reveals the growth potential going unnoticed. Click For Your Copy.