Entrepreneur's Table

  What does your success scorecard measure? Income, sales, reach, marketing effectiveness, and completed goals are important—but they do not tell the whole story. In this video, we talk through a broader success scorecard that also considers: • Courage • Service • Perseverance • Contribution • Growth • Preparation • Integrity These qualities can be difficult to quantify, but they often explain how visible results are produced—and why future results may still be developing beneath the surface. As you watch, give yourself a score from 1 to 5 in each area. Don’t stop with the number. Ask: 1. What evidence supports my score? 2. What does this reveal about my progress? 3. What have I learned? 4. What is my next faithful step? When you finish, identify: • One measurable win • One less-visible win • One area needing attention • One faithful next step The score is not the conclusion. It is the beginning of a useful conversation. Don’t measure only the medal. Measure what it took to make th...

What does your success scorecard measure? Income, sales, reach, marketing effectiveness, and completed goals are important—but they do not tell the whole story. In this video, we talk through a broader success scorecard that also considers: • Courage • Service • Perseverance • Contribution • Growth • Preparation • Integrity These qualities can be difficult to quantify, but they often explain how visible results are produced—and why future results may still be developing beneath the surface. As you watch, give yourself a score from 1 to 5 in each area. Don’t stop with the number. Ask: 1. What evidence supports my score? 2. What does this reveal about my progress? 3. What have I learned? 4. What is my next faithful step? When you finish, identify: • One measurable win • One less-visible win • One area needing attention • One faithful next step The score is not the conclusion. It is the beginning of a useful conversation. Don’t measure only the medal. Measure what it took to make the atte...

  Leadership is not merely about making a plan and sticking to it. Sometimes remaining faithful to the purpose requires departing from the strategy. In this edition of Leaning Leadership Ladder, I reflect on risk, failure, responsibility, and what I call “purposeful foolishness”—those moments when a leader must make a bold and possibly unpopular decision because it appears to be the right thing to do. Courageous leadership is not careless. It listens to counsel, examines the evidence, weighs the consequences of acting and not acting, and accepts responsibility for whatever follows. When have you had to depart from a plan in order to preserve a principle? #Leadership #CourageousLeadership #DecisionMaking #EthicalLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #LeaningLeadershipLadder https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/purposeful-foolishness-tom-sims-clfmc  

 Photo by Ruth Bourke on Unsplash Centralize the Promise, Decentralize the Expression What Big Boy can teach us about products, people, branding, and growth A recent video about the rise and decline of Big Boy presents the company’s history through four things it did exceptionally well—and one structural decision that eventually weakened everything it had built. It is an entertaining piece of restaurant history, but it is also a useful business case study. The lesson is not simply that centralization is good and decentralization is bad. The more important question is this: As a business grows, what must remain under central control, and what should be adapted locally? 1. Build a product people can recognize and remember Big Boy began with a distinctive product: the double-decker hamburger. Its importance was not merely that it was bigger. It looked substantial, felt special, and delivered a memorable experience without destroying the restaurant’s profit margin. That is an...