Category: Leadership

  • Tame and Wicked Problems

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    Brad Heidemann
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    Hi Everyone, Every week we send a Desk of Brad to each of you, I don’t remember exactly when we started this, sometime shortly after our acquisition of the Dutch business, but it’s been at least four or more years ago. We have never missed a Friday DOB, not once, not ever. It’s a commitment…

  • Tahzoo Fundamentals

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    Brad Heidemann
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    Hi Everyone, The fundamentals of our business can be simply boiled down to a few things: great customer service, high quality work product, and a passion for improving our clients’ business. It’s easy to overcomplicate your work or how a business runs. I spend a lot of time trying to simplify things – today’s DOB is…

  • SMART Goal Setting

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    Brad Heidemann
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    Hi Everyone,  I’ve been working closely with the management team over the last couple of weeks to improve alignment and ensure that our business’s priorities are being driven throughout the company. One of the things that I’ve asked the leadership team to do was to put together a 30-day goal plan. I am sure many…

  • The Power of People

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    Brad Heidemann
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    Hi Everyone,  Monday was Memorial Day and, in my DOB, last Friday I shared with you the importance of remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms. There is a small graveyard on Bainbridge Island and on Monday my children put small American flags on the gravestones of our veterans. My in-laws are buried there and they both…

  • One Activity A Day

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    Brad Heidemann
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    Hi Everyone,  Good consulting starts with curiosity and conversations and so does good business development. I appreciated the time we spent together this morning talking about how we can help our clients and grow our business at the same time. We have so many talented and capable people within Tahzoo and when we work as a…

  • Measure Everything

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    Hi Everyone,    Over the last month, I’ve been pushing hard in having the company think about and implement quality control checks, peer reviews, and standardize our processes. I have been thinking about growth and how we will manage the additional work coming our way over the next year. We must get a lot of things…

  • Be Your Own Boss

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    “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist or accept the responsibility for changing them.” —Denis Waitley

  • Alignment towards Excellence…

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    Brad Heidemann
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    “If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”  – Colin Powell  Hi Everyone,   I want to thank everyone who submitted ideas for the T-Shirt contest. The winner has been selected and is now at the t-shirt print shop… super exciting!…

  • Leadership

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    With the Super Bowl this weekend and with our 2018 plans, I thought I’d take a moment to talk about winning as a team. So much of our culture is based on the idea of personal achievement – ‘What’s in it for me? What’s my opportunity? How do I get rich and famous?’ and so…

  • Being a Good Consultant

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    Brad Heidemann
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    We are a relationship led company. In every respect, the quality and strength of our relationships determine the short and long-term success of our business. Qualitatively, this is the most important point of judgment regarding the health of employees, partners, clients, and the company. If you can’t build and maintain great relationships, consulting is not…