Shared Wisdom

Quitter, Camper, Climber: Who’s on Your Team?
By Richard Lavin, Founder, LEVERAGEDWISDOM richard.lavin@leveragedwisdom.com Years ago I met Doug Tomkins, an incredibly successful

CEO Chief Empathy Officer
The burden of leadership will grow heavy over the coming days, weeks and months. In

Finders, Minders & Grinders: What’s Your Role?
A LEVERAGEDWISDOM Member, founder and managing partner of a prominent accounting firm, once described his

Enough With The Shovel: A LEVERAGEDWISDOM Insight
We all know the rule of holes…if you’re in one, stop digging! A hole in

Success as a Blind Spot, No Lessons Learned
Most entrepreneurs are smart and if nothing else, resilient. Their tolerance for pain and risk

Purple? No. Meet For Drinks? Yes!
Twelve CEOs were staring at six bottles of nail polish I had placed on the

If You Run Your Business as Though You’re Going to Sell It, What’s the Number?
As an entrepreneurial CEO, owner, how do you benchmark your performance and that of your

Stand on your desk!!! Get behind the counter!!! Break down the walls!!! You’re boring!!!!
A CEO’s perspective and vision are often defined by their routines. So, it is useful for

Process Choke Point: Indecision is a Decision.
Being CEO/Owner means you have to make decisions in a timely and effective manner. Yes

Choke Points #1: Person, Position or Process
At LEVERAGEDWISDOM we work on our Member CEO’s choke points often leading to unusual action

What’s the expiration date on your business?
“We tackle the tough questions that keep owners of privately held businesses up at night.”
Choose One At Your Peril: The Disciplines of Market Leaders
The Discipline of Market Leaders became a much revered business book in the mid-90s. At

The Next Entrepreneurial Generation: Still Lonely at the Top
Among the members of LEVERAGEDWISDOM is a new generation of entrepreneurs, including the sons and

Wisdom of Crowds
“No one of us is as smart as all of us” or The Wisdom of
This will be for the “S” curve of life and business.
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How Business Owners Can Avoid the Next Liquidity Trap
If you survived the economic tsunami of the last 36 months, you know that not
Beware of Black Swans and Dead Elephants
In “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,” author Nassim Nicholas Taleb contends
