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Performance Faction’s Insights, Strategies, and Tools for a scalable, results-driven organization.

Systems

Systems get work done faster with less effort.   I’ve come to the realization that I need more systems to handle all the various components in my business.  I don’t have enough time to get everything done without more systems.  Given many

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Change

What got you here, won’t get you there.   I often tell my son that with some ambition and determination, most decently capable people can get to the 80th percentile of a goal or state rather quickly.  Then it gets hard.  

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Weight

There is someone on your team not pulling their weight. For every business I’ve talked to over 15 people, this is the case.   This is not a temporary status.  This is a gradual declining situation. You convince yourself you’re just on

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The Curse

Hopefully the subject line didn’t arouse any superstitious fears. However, the Curse of Expertise is real and could be limiting you more than you know.   For those not familiar with the term, the Curse of Expertise is when someone with a particular background or expertise in

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Misunderstood

Culture is misunderstood. I was recently writing some content for a marketing piece and went on a quest to find a consistent definition of Culture. I was not disappointed for lack of options.  The Google gave me 267 results before it tapped

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Consistency

The Word of the Year. It’s not a new concept but it seems as though having your word of the year is quite popular as we’re now 11.2% of the way into 2022. I admit, I didn’t start the year with a word. Which

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Thanks for Noticing

Written by Russel Dubree for the YES Community Newsletter. When was the last time you thanked someone? Not just a courtesy thank you for an everyday small task like refilling your soda or handing you your change from a purchase.

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The Gap and the Gain

Welcome to 2022! I’m enjoying all the memes that say how quietly we are supposed to enter the new year so as not to arouse any major disasters. We’ll see how that goes. I tend to not put a lot of stock in the

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I Gave In

I fought it for long enough. I knew I was fighting it.  I preached and pointed to it for so long, yet I didn’t follow through when it was my own time to live it out.  However, as I started talking to more people, I began to realize that some conversations just flowed more easily. I found I was

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What is your Agency worth?

During the 2-3 year period we actively pursued selling our digital agency business (Lifeblue), we had offers with valuations as low as $4M to as high as $15M and everything in between. I used a number of accounting professionals and

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