Executive Leadership

Executive Leadership
Todd Girvin

When Strength Becomes Weakness

How to Recognize and Overcome Your Limitations As entrepreneurs, we often focus on leveraging our strengths to drive our businesses forward. While this is crucial, it’s equally important to recognize that every strength can also be a weakness. Understanding how your strengths might be limiting

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Intentional Business
Todd Girvin

The Art of Delegating

Mastering Delegation While Doing What You Love As an entrepreneur, you wear many hats. From managing finances to marketing your products or services, the list of responsibilities can seem endless. But trying to do everything yourself leads to burnout and can really drag down your

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Intentional Business
Todd Girvin

Imposter Syndrome while Taking the Leap

Last summer, while at a skydiving center in Hawaii with my wife and nephew, I met a writer from the Wall Street Journal. She was there with her husband, ready to take the plunge. When she learned that I chair an executive peer advisory board,

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Atomic Habits book cover
Book Review
Todd Girvin

Book Review: Atomic Habits

Summary: Since I’ve finished it, I can’t stop thinking about James Clear’s Atomic Habits. I’m living proof that it’s a transformative guide for business executives seeking to enhance their lives, both professional and personal, through the power of small, consistent changes. The book’s core message

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office worker overwhelmed with interruptions
Intentional Business
Todd Girvin

The Upside of Context Switching

Why Should I Care? We always hear about the downside of context switching – almost always tied to trying to multitask. Our brains pay a certain cost of switching from one thing to another. Often, we’re willing to pay the small price of missing a

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Profit First for Therapists book by Julie Herres
Book Review
Todd Girvin

Book Review: Profit First for Therapists

a book by Julie Herres Summary Last month I finally got around to reading (actually listening to) a book written by one of my peer advisory board members, Profit First for Therapists: A Simple Framework for Financial Freedom by Julie Herres. I expected it to

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business meeting at a table
Executive Leadership
Todd Girvin

Business Operating Systems

Chaos Vs. Order When you’re starting or even deciding to intentionally scale your business, you’ll definitely give some thought to your planning, reporting, and review cycles. If you’re an experienced leader, you probably have an intuitive sense for what your rhythm should be based on

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Executive Leadership
Todd Girvin

Intentional Business

Lewis Carol wrote: “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” But in business, the truer phrase is:

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Book Review
Todd Girvin

Book Review: Fierce Conversations

a book by Susan Scott Summary During my holiday travels, I’ve been listening to the audio book of Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott. After seeing her Ted Talk, I had to download and start it right away. I’ve read (listened to) several great books this

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Clock Nearly 2024
Executive Leadership
Todd Girvin

Strategic Planning

With the new year just around the corner, I’m sure everyone has either recently done or is working on a strategic plan for 2024. To help with the thinking and planning, here are a few useful links from the thought leaders at Vistage Worldwide: CEO

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