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Happy Birthday to the BOLD Business Podcast
BOLD Business Podcast is gearing up to embrace change fearlessly. We’re casting aside limiting beliefs and stepping forward confidently, ready to tackle whatever challenges 2025 may throw our way.
Why Do Good Plans Go Bad?
Starting the conversation: Have you ever wondered why even the best-laid plans can go wrong? Your company might have a solid strategy crafted by a team of brilliant minds but still struggle to make progress. That happens when there’s a gap between strategy and execution, which can be challenging to pinpoint. Christy Maxfield, President and […]
Driving Solutions: 90-Day Framework for Strategic and Fast Results
The Driving Solutions Intensive framework gives you an adaptive, flexible, and customizable tool for you to use and have more certainty in business outcomes.
How to Gain Competitive Advantage in Your Business
Maximizing your potential requires more than hard work; it demands a strategic approach. To reach your business goals, you must understand the present and have a clear and inspiring vision for the future and a solid execution plan to bring that vision to life. When problems arise, having a solution at hand is crucial. Whether […]
Prepare Your Business for Successful Sale
Starting the conversation: Selling your business isn’t as simple as it seems. For sellers, this means understanding their role in the business and preparing it for a successful transition. For buyers, this means knowing what they’re looking for and what kind of business aligns with their skills and goals. David C Barnett, Private Transaction Advisor, […]
How to Make an Action Plan to Achieve Your Goals
There are so many ways to achieve goals. I’m fascinated by what goes into the choice for the path to take. Lately I’ve been diving deep into strategies that are used. It’s not just a matter of planning and executing, it is an exploration of human ingenuity. Some meticulously plan each step, analyzing and strategizing, […]
Foster an Outside Perspective to Enhance Decision-Making
Starting the conversation: Formalized or not, we all seek points of view (maybe even validation) with which to check ourselves. Being on the right track, getting results, and making the best decisions — these are weighty responsibilities. By default it is commonly thought that confidence comes from knowledge. In actuality, confidence comes from being tuned […]
Understand the Four Pillars of Business Success and Reach Your Goals (Part 1)
Are you tired of second-guessing yourself and missing out on opportunities? Well, worry no more because you CAN quickly assess day-to-day items without any stress!
The secret to success lies in four powerful pillars that will help you easily reach your goals:
Make Decisions with Imperfect Information
Starting the conversation: You make all decisions with imperfect information, which can lead to any number of scenarios: walking right into a blind spot, missing a key point of view, or maybe even downplaying risk. Geneve Huxley, Founder and CEO at Huxley CPA Consulting, talks about the challenges companies face and how to use your […]
Four Measures to Face Your Business Future with Confidence
Starting the conversation: There are four measures you can use to face your business future with confidence. Combine these measures with several commonly associated challenges and you will take away proactive ideas about where to put your resources to navigate disruption. You will experience disruption in your business within the next 12 months. While grit […]
How to Create a Culture of Accountability
Starting the conversation: Accountability is elusive, but it doesn’t have to be. In fact, you may have all that is needed except for time and discipline. Too much time management drastically impacts your ability to connect and fully show up to minimize risk, expand capacity, and have truthful conversations. In this #AskJess Anything question roundup […]
The Path to Long-Lasting Business in Times of Economic Fluctuation
Starting the conversation: Jess Dewell answers your questions about the collective skills, expertise, and alignment of people whom your company needs to thrive. Scott Scowcroft reads listener questions (submitted to #AskJess) that range from improving capabilities; the future of work; and facing our assumptions to make decisions that move a company […]
Being BOLD in 2022: What’s Next for Business
Starting the conversation: Jess Dewell is live to talk about the risks you face in your business growth. Use a framework, like the Present Retreat, to better understand how our actions now shape the next quarter and the next year. More time is necessary to engage with your strategic plan regularly. Joining her […]
How To Innovate From the Inside: Practical Steps From Top Leaders
When we focus on both internal and external factors and how they interplay with one another, we’re able to find rapid success in pursuing our true north.
Top Tips To Take Your Business To The Next Level
It can be challenging to find the right intersection between following the path where your business is best at and upgrading the company on the go. However, that intersection is the spot where you will find the unique value that will result in growth.