Strategy and Planning
It’s hard to believe, but we are approaching the end of 2019. Every year is filled with wins and losses, lessons learned, and inspiration for the future. At Crossroads, we’ve had one of our busiest years ever, which has brought new challenges along with its accomplishments. Things aren’t showing any signs of slowing down, so […]
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Why can’t you double your business in a year, maybe two? Even if the economy is down or your industry is down, can you be expected to grow? And is it realistic to think we can have year after year positive growth? My answer to all of these questions is “yes you can”! We are […]
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Setbacks happen, and in some strange way they usually take us by surprise. I guess that is part of the definition. If we have a setback, we must have been moving forward. The faster our positive traction, the more jarring the setback. Losing a big customer can feel like starting over. An employee of talent […]
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As we head into the first turn of 2019 and our first quarter results transition to second quarter objectives, let’s talk sales. Healthy sales growth just makes a lot of things better. When sales are booming, you can steam roll other issues with the brute strength of cash making strong sales performance is a great […]
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Yesterday Twitter got a lot of action when Facebook and Instagram servers had outages for most of the day. Tweets were flying with the hashtag #FacebookDown. Normal functioning seems to have returned to both sites as of Thursday morning- so if you missed it, all is restored and fair-weather Twitter users have likely returned to […]
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“We must realize—and act on the realization—that if we try to focus on everything, we focus on nothing.” John Doerr, Measure What Matters While launching 2019 with one of our busiest months ever, our team has also been strategizing new objectives and key results for Crossroads and our clients. This annual goal-setting process got a major […]
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Our client planning cycle seems like it has stretched a little this year. It might just be me, but I feel like we’re working plans a little deeper and farther than in years past. It’s good. Sales growth, operational improvements, capacity expansion, developing teams…. All good for the business, the employees and the owners. I […]
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I’m in a season of planning. Business planning, sales planning, financial planning, career planning, wedding planning…. Went to a committee meeting at my church this week; yep, Worship Planning. My wife and business partner frequently discuss plans for planning all these things we plan for clients, family and friends. Planning is critical to the […]
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