Photo by Andrew Yardley on Unsplash We’ve been exploring various components of our planning process. Today let’s do a quick review to see where the pieces fit together. Remember, our objective is to help clients clarify direction and maximize their business potential. That means grow revenues, grow profits, grow business value, and help [...]

What’s your management style? Do you manage in a 20th century, command-and-control style, organizational-chart driven? This approach was effective in the 20th century, basically because people did as they were told. People in the 21st century need to be treated differently if you want to harness and maximize their potential. They need to be engaged. [...]

Photo by michael podger on Unsplash I was talking to a CPA last week, exploring growth options for his firm. I asked him to paint me a picture of where the firm is today. He spent the next 15 minutes reciting a litany of complaints. He works way too many hours, even when [...]

Did you ever see the movie, “The Social Network”? It tells how Facebook was invented as a way for Harvard students to rate coeds in terms of attractiveness, sex appeal, etc. Today’s dating apps such as ­­­­­­Match.com and Tinder have simplified the rating process to a series of swipes, left or right. The HaydenRock System™ [...]

Some people like apple pie made only with Granny Smith apples. Others mix different apple varieties. Some like traditional crust. Others prefer a crumb topping. A Google search for apple pie recipe turns up over 4.7 million options, but there are certain things they have in common. Turns out you can’t make an apple pie [...]

When my son was 3 years old he would dump all the puzzle pieces on the table and have no clue where to start. He would take hours and hours trying to put the puzzle together with no luck. That’s when I taught him to first put the 4 corners in their place, followed by [...]