Critical team meetings

We believe the single greatest predictor of your short-term survival, your medium-term growth, and your long-term success is your ability as a team to collaborate and communicate effectively. Given how dynamic, volatile, and rapidly evolving our industry has become, it's your team's ability to challenge your assumptions, admit and correct your mistakes, anticipate your clients' needs, and constantly fine- tune your business model may not only ensure your survival, but also ultimately, your success.

In the past two decades-plus, we have found that our most underutilized and untapped resource is the collective intellect and insights of our teammates, which often lie dormant in even some of our most productive teams. Rather than unlock and mine this resource on a regular basis, we often allow the demands of our practices to so consume us that meaningful collaboration and conversations get swept downstream for another day. Suddenly, we look up and another year has passed, and it's time to start the fire drills all over again.

For the sake of your team, your clients, your families, and yourselves, step off the treadmill once a week, sit down with your colleagues, and as Michael E. Gerber, the best-selling author of the book, "The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work"¹, has taught us, "work on your business…not just in your business."