The Barzel Group Blog
How to Include Strategic Flexibility in Your Business
What Is Strategic Flexibility? Strategic flexibility allows your business to adapt and change in order to succeed. Instead of rigidly defining success as one outcome achieved via a single, predetermined method, businesses with strategic flexibility broaden their definition of success to encompass multiple methods and outcomes while still retaining enough specificity to know how to…
Using the Enneagram for Decision-Making
Make tough decisions easier when you use the Enneagram for decision-making. Understanding your motivations will give you insight and clarity.
How to Start a Coaching Business
I’m often asked by people launching their coaching business, “Jay, what did you do to start yours? What should I consider as I step out on my own?” Since I first launched my business coaching practice in 2013, the coaching industry has changed dramatically. No longer do companies hire business coaches as a last resort…
The Dangers of Intuitive Leadership
“There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.” That’s from Malcom Gladwell, author of Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. History backs up his assertion with countless examples of inexplicable snap decisions that turned out to be pivotal: The skinny race horse has knobby…
Four Questions for Leaders to Ask Themselves
I’m pretty sure Socrates would’ve liked my friend Jason Hodges. As you may recall, the Socratic method is named after the Greek philosopher who trained his followers to become critical thinkers—not by lecturing, but by asking questions. His queries exposed weaknesses in a person’s thought process and guided them into a more solid assessment of…
Urgency vs. Importance: The Eisenhower Matrix
Did you know that 40% of business owners feels that their own, personal time management gets in the way of productivity ? When there are too many things to do and not enough time to do them, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. Too often, business leaders feel paralyzed by the busyness of their business, always…