Larry Mandelberg

Growth is change. Too many #leaders either fail to recognize that and prepare for it or recognize it and try to avoid it by suppressing both #change and #growth. If your #business isn't growing, it's dying.

Confusion and apathy of what a #mission statement is and why it's important is tragic and expensive. Your mission should describe your market, the #value you deliver, and how you deliver it. How can that be of no value?

How can one #marketing plan for a business with multiple products & services be effective if they have different sales cycles and competing benefits? Each set of deliverables with a common value proposition should have its own marketing plan.  #marketingplan

Most people use education as a synonym for teaching when they mean learning or gaining accurate knowledge. Education is only valuable when learning occurs. #education #learning #teaching

Nothing can replace the #wisdom of #experience. Share yours through story whenever #opportuntiy arises. Others will benefit and appreciate your sharing.

The person who probably knows and understands your job as well as you are the people who bring their work product to you and the people you send your work product to. They're the ones who know how to get things done. #getthingsdone

Most business plans are a waste because the authors fail to extract sufficient benefits from them. A good one creates #foresight & #alignment of staff, improves #engagement & #communication, requires #planning and provides financial guidance. How can that be a waste of time?

Knowledge is to wisdom what expertise is to experience. Expertise does NOT represent experience any more than knowledge represents wisdom. #knowledge #wisdom #expertise #experience

Are you being lazy or striving to figure out how to best allocate your #resources? This is a dichotomous reality, and you can't be doing both at the same time.

The best #leaders know #profit without #purpose is #pointless

If #staff doesn’t fully understand how the company works, they can never understand their place in it as anything more than a cog in a machine. Having a diagram of how work flows through the business helps people see how critical they are to the ultimate end user. #engagement

Managing up is an art every subordinate and direct report should learn. It's not about getting what you want, it's about helping your #manager be better while giving you the #freedom and #flexibility to use your knowledge and expertise to its best advantage. #managingup

Do people suffer from a lack of #empathy or a yearning for it? If you haven't experienced something others have, you might not be able to be empathetic, yet you're still likely to want it from them.

Many blame their #business failure on insufficient funds as if more cash or credit would have given them time to solve their problems. For those looking for #excuses, lack of funds is a lagging financial indicator and can never be the reason a business fails. #insufficientfunds

While financial problems are never the cause of failure, they are critically important as lagging indicators of bad decisions—decisions that are either poorly thought-out, poorly executed, or in pursuit of inappropriate objectives. #baddecisions #laggingindicators

Why do I #struggle to follow my own #advice, particularly when I #need it the most.

From John Dutton to his son after being asked for help in the Yellowstone TV series, season 3, episode 5: "Once you make the #decision, I'll do whatever you want." Good decisions are what #leaders are supposed to #teach others how to make.

When #leadership fails to provide the proper #framework for staff, peak #performance can be elusive, and the best efforts of good people are often wasted.

The question is not whether your business is going to #suffer #change; the questions are, what changes will your business face #tomorrow, how well will staff #adapt to them, and will it be in time?

Don't ask or expect others to #change until you're willing to #lead the way. Stop swimming against the current and learn to embrace change.