Marketing = Cashflow

Cashflow is the lifeblood of business, and there is no better way to kill Cashflow than to never market your business, to never sell your products and/or services. If you succeed in killing cashflow, you will succeed in killing your company. I once heard an evangelist preach a sermon about Clairol Christians, with his primary…

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Big Batch Flow = Bad Cash Flow

I thought it providential that this was the featured quote that surfaced today (I have these charted our for several years, just in case you thought they were random). As some of you know, but many probably don’t, I’ve been working on a revised addition of the True32 Flow Manufacturing book (a lot has changed…

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Do It Anyway!

Let’s stop getting ready to do the things we know we need to be doing, AND DO THEM! It feels odd to supplement a quote with a quote, but here we go: “The success gap is between ‘I should’ and ‘I did’.” -John Maxwell

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Crafting Your Company

Are you as good at crafting your company as you are at crafting custom cabinetry? If this is an area you struggle with, or have ignored too long, please consider the just released Custom Cabinet Planner as one of the tools in your tool box to set your team up for success. Let Custom Cabinet…

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Inefficient Efficiency

Peter Drucker’s clever arrangement of words just rolls off the tongue, and most of us would say Amen every time we hear it, but can you name the things you are doing with great efficiently that you should not be doing at all? Can you name ONE thing you are doing with great efficiently that…

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Money, money, money-MONEY!

If you have ever asked the question Martin Holland asks in his book, The Profit Problem, “They say I make money. So why don’t I have any?”, then this post is for you (if you are in the cabinet manufacturing business it should apply, if not, it may or may not apply). What are the…

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Entrepreneurs’ Biggest Problem

Being a fan/advocate for Theory of Constraints Thinking, I find Mike Michalowicz’s statement to be very accurate, especially when you subscribe to the thinking process that says the “Constraint” is the ONE THING that keeps a company from reaching its GOAL. Not knowing your Constraint is a BIG PROBLEM. The converse is knowing where your…

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Automation is Delegation

Automation is nothing more than delegating things to technology, and like delegating something to a person, we need to first determine if we should delegate the task at all (maybe we should eliminate it). That’s a framework worth remembering.

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Democracy vs. Representative Republic

With yesterday being Veterans Day, and that many of us exercised our right to vote earlier this week, it seemed appropriate to speak to the topic of Freedom in today’s blog post. Freedom is NOT free, but in the absence of conflict on our home soil, it is easy to see where some might take…

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