Accelus Insights:
The Leadership Narrative

Are you in a rut or on a path? It is hard to tell at times isn’t it? Sticking the truck in the cow pasture is an obvious example. Yet in our lives we can fall into other, more subtle ruts – like one in riding. A rut in horseback...

So how do you bust out of a rut? Most of us have been in one in our life, either literally or figuratively. Let’s take the literal version of being stuck in a rut. I have had quite a lot of experience with this. My home town is Elkhart, Texas,...

I recently heard this saying, “A rut is simply a grave with both ends kicked out.” How does that strike you? When I first heard the phrase, my reaction was, “Oh my, too true, and what a way to put it.” A little research reveals the original version to be:...

When things aren’t going as smoothly as we planned or in the direction we imagined; when we find our life and our business a far cry from what we have envisioned, our mind defaults to the thought that something needs “fixin” – that is Texan for the verb “to fix.”...

Last week I shared an article on LinkedIn about closing the lid on your laptop for the weekend. Little did I know when I selected the article that it would soon be just the advice I needed. You see, I do truly practice the habits and insights I share with...

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) recently released its third practice management research report through its Research & Practice Institute (RPI). The focus is “Client Communication” and the report touches on many of the topics one would expect, such as frequency and type of communication, segmentation of clients and service level...