Business Housekeeping Can Maximize Value

If you’re a business owner looking to sell now or in the future, you may be discouraged to hear that many sales fall apart during the due diligence phase. You have the ability to minimize the risk of this happening by being a diligent business owner before putting your business on the market. (more…)

Vision or Nightmare: Three Ways Execute Your Strategic Plan

“Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.”

This Japanese proverb captures the business leader’s challenge: how to achieve results from strategy and gain more from the process than a plan in a binder. (more…)

Perks Empower Workers

Let’s keep it real: Pro Athlete has a LOT of employee perks. And we’re talking about more than the usual—extra days off, afternoon at the K, Friday happy hours—that many businesses offer. At Pro Athlete, they take employee perks seriously. (more…)

A Palatable Partnership

You can hear it in Robin Knight’s voice. This is not a woman who gives up easily—particularly when it comes to her daughters. (more…)

Develop The Road Map for Your Company’s Future

Strategic planning is an organization’s process of defining its strategy or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy. (more…)

Look Beyond the Border

Many companies still ask why they should start exporting. The answer is simple: to achieve growth and faster success, especially when there are so many available resources in Kansas City. (more…)

Think Big to Grow Big

Growing a company isn’t easy under the best of circumstances. Growing an established company by double digits is a rare feat, especially on a year-in, year-out basis.  (more…)

Mastering the Art of Follow-Through

Welcome to 2018! Chances are you’ve started the year with a new set of annual goals for your business. (more…)

What’s Next for You and Your Small Business?

Smart entrepreneurs realize they always have to keep thinking about what’s next, both for themselves and for the companies they lead. Otherwise, they won’t be ready for the next big opportunity that comes their way. (more…)

On a Fast Train to the Wrong Destination?

Have you ever had a day where your wheels spin a bit slower? Have you noticed your team not putting in the usual miles at the office? Could it be burnout? The need for a vacation? Or is there something more underlying the malaise? (more…)