Don Dalrymple
Business 2 Community
Breckenridge, CO, United States
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Empire Building and Diminishing Returns
The law of diminishing returns is critical to think about for empire builders and deal makers. I think about this concept a lot because you can overstay → Read More
Building KPI Scorecards
When teams grow, the management of details, priorities and people can become unwieldy. Knowing what problems to prioritize and address can easily become a → Read More
You Can’t Take the Thinking Out of Knowledge Work
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.” – Henry Ford We have a lot of uncertainty around us, → Read More
How to Protect Your Entrepreneurial Downside
It truly is a jungle out there. Regardless of your good intentions, there is much uncertainty and unknowns in the course of building businesses. I know → Read More
How to Keep Highly Busy Customers
One thing that is not likely to change in the near future is inattention. Your customers are busy, tired and unable to focus. While you may want to → Read More
Can You Get 10 Hours a Week Back?
If your weeks are passing by and you are not moving the needle on the big things, then it may be well worthwhile to reevaluate your work strategy. → Read More
Minimize Switching Costs Between Systems
The presentation from Google’s team on interface, flow and usability in their G Suite products has a helpful comment, “A company is the sum of its processes.” The 12 minute mark of the presentation is helpful to understand the cost of context switching. This happens each time we have to move from one software, app or service to another. I see a dozen browser tabs open all the time on people’s… → Read More
Get Rid of the One-off Projects
A simple way to think about whether you are growing a business, in addition to productizing your services, is to stay focused on repeatability. There is no end to one-off projects you can likely get involved with and provide solutions for. However, there’s a lot of cost when you work on one-offs: Recommended For You Webcast, May 21st: Growth for Everyone: A Scalable Model for Any Sized Business… → Read More
Productize Your Services so You Can Scale
Are all the things you can do simply a mass of shapeless efforts? When you are starting a venture, and… → Read More
New Habits in a Non-Connected World
I feel like the adrenaline has oozed out from this past month of COVID-19 sheltering in place. The pace and… → Read More
Be Better at Relationships Than at Automation
We live in a world where people have a hard time paying attention. Everyone is frazzled and overwhelmed to the point that their hands are on the delete key. It’s a natural and understandable instinct. With more technology and convenience, we can use automation and transactional platforms to fill people’s inboxes to the brim. Recipients have to figure out what is the signal and what is the noise.… → Read More
How to Simplify the Complexity of Projects
We are overwhelmed from the complexity and volume of information every day. Much of it comes from the ease of team members and customers having the convenience of being able to email and text us. In your given day, think about how much you read in your inbox. Pages and pages of content that has to be processed and deciphered. On top of the vast amount of words that you will consume, everyone did… → Read More
Get Your Business Out of Your Head and Into a System
When your business is you, operating it is a cinch. How you do things is simply in your head. You can develop and rely on your habits to get customers and deliver your service. Make calls with your friendly approach, send a proposal the way you are used to, and work the projects with your communications and updates based on what you have seen personally work over the years. It can work well… → Read More
Start and Grow a Low Risk Business
I heard from a friend that their big corporation just laid off hundreds of people. It could be from mismanagement,… → Read More
Find Businesses That Already Have Demand
What do people already want to buy? It’s far easier to meet demand than create demand. I have been in… → Read More
How to Manage Projects
You have the whole world at your fingertips, and if you want, you can get people to help you get work done, build systems and grow your business. The challenge is to be clear and manage projects with the desired outcomes articulated and identified. It can sound obvious, but there are plenty of stories of unmet expectations and missed delivery. It’s why you can’t just hand off. You have to lead… → Read More
Most People are Almost-Fits at Best
Business problems are largely people problems. And, in the same vein, business is people. Yes, you can automate. That’s easier than dealing with people. Machines, software and automation follows rules, logic and functionality. But people don’t fit what the job usually requires. They are almost fits at best. They don’t come in the specific shape, size, function and consistency your jobs require.… → Read More
Minimize Your Digital Platforms
Photo by rawpixel.com on Pexels.com We have a hard time appreciating what drag does to our lives and work. If you’re used to sifting through your junk to find your clothes, notebooks, gadgets or everything to help you in a day, the friction may be lost on you. It’s become a habit that’s comfortable and unnoticeable over time. It’s easy to pick up a subscription or tool here and there. After all,… → Read More
Don’t Be Original
Photo by fotografierende on Pexels.com The romantic idea of creating something innovative and new can get us sidetracked quickly in…… → Read More
The Purpose of an Entrepreneur
> Entrepreneurs are heroes in our society. They fail for the rest of us. ~ Nassim Taleb Yes, entrepreneurs are indeed heroes. Ultimately, entrepreneurs are about initiative and responsibility for risk. However, at a fundamental level, entrepreneurs are problem solvers. They own the difficult problems others are reluctant to carry. There are a sea of ambiguous problems that entrepreneurs… → Read More