Capacity Counts: The 5 Lies You Buy Into That Cause You To Bite Off More Than You Can Chew

by Nicholas McGill | Jan 9, 2019 | Business, Business Development, Communication, Management, Management Strategy, Marketing, Operations, Productivity, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking, Strategy

Look back on your past year. How many initiatives and projects did you tell yourself, your spouse and your team that you were going to accomplish? How much actually got done? Don’t worry, those horrible stats are what most establish owners struggle with and it all...

Getting It Done: 3 Steps to Help You Stop Overestimating Your Capacity & Underestimating The Effort Required

by Nicholas McGill | Jan 8, 2019 | Business, Business Model Design, Design, Management, Management Strategy, Operations, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking, Strategy

Overestimating your capacity is a bad keystone habit that enables a lot of other self-sabotaging habits, and while there are ways to turn things around, as with any addiction, you’ll be vulnerable to repeating bad problems and must maintain constant vigilance. This...

Finding Your Flow: 8 Business and Life Altering Benefits of Getting Capacity Right

by Nicholas McGill | Dec 26, 2018 | Business, Business Model Design, Featured, Management, Management Strategy, Operations, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking, Strategy

Being aware of your true, effective work capacity as an individual and as a company is an essential life skill. Most established business owners struggle with it. Overestimating what they can do & underestimating the effort required, is a surefire, one-two recipe...

Capacity Counts: 25 Points of Peril & The High Cost of  Getting It Wrong

by Nicholas McGill | Dec 26, 2018 | Business, Business Model Design, Design, Design Thinking, Featured, Leadership, Management, Management Strategy, Operations, Performance, Productivity, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking, Strategy

Being unaware of your true effective capacity as an individual and as a company is deadly. If the leader of the company overestimates his capacity, he’ll flood his company with unrealistic expectations, fantasy projects, and vague goals that will cripple the...

What is a Growth Engine? 3 Key Features of Complex Business Systems That Actually Work

by Nicholas McGill | Nov 26, 2018 | Business, Business Model Design, Design, Featured, Management, Management Strategy, Operations, Performance, Productivity, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking, Strategy

Just what the heck is a growth engine anyway? Where do you find them? How are they different from marketing solutions you can buy off the shelf? What exactly does the term Growth Engine mean? In this post we’ll cover the gist, key components, to help you filter out...