Small Business Growth Links

37Signals blog: Choosing the Right Things to Say No To.

“I’ve made much more money by choosing the right things to say no to than by choosing things to say yes to. I measure it by the money I haven’t lost and the quality I haven’t sacrificed.” - Danny Meyer of the Union Square Hospitality Group

Me, too. My biggest mistakes arose from my reluctance to say "no" and say it soon.

Be Excellent blog: Management and the Growth Challenge.

...building a stretch of strong internal growth depends on creating “a seamless, consistent, self-reinforcing alignment across strategy, execution processes, structure, leadership, culture, HR policies, accountability, technology, measurement and rewards. In other words, good growth leaders are able to think in a systems integrative mindset across functions

Small Business Trends: Get a free copy of Execution Revolution. (It's a great book. I've got my signed copy just to the left of my monitor.)

SmallBiz Survival: As Much as They Do.

The advertising has already started. It's Olympics time.

The Olympics is a collection of stories of hope, of overcoming insurmountable odds, of underdogs, of longshots. (In a sense, it's like a meeting of small business owners.)

Pick just one of these areas to work on for the next three months. Use every Olympic commercial you see or hear as a reminder to work on that area. Trim distractions out of your life for just this time.