The Gray Cat Blog
A comprehensive collection of blogs designed to assist small business owners and multi-unit operators.
Gray Cat continues to diversify its offering from onsite consulting to online learning courses.
Through the Gray Cat Learning Series, independent operators an take advantage of the core learnings to ...
“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate” – from the movie, Cool Hand Luke
Fire. Aim. Ready. If this is your communications plan…..you may want to read on.
Amazingly, many companies do not t...
What makes us give up a solid corporate work background to launch our own management consulting firm?
We talked about this on the Elite Growth Partners podcast. Â Inspiration comes from many places, h...
Becoming an entrepreneur presents a different set of challenges than working in a corporate role.
Over the years, I have been blessed with terrific mentors that helped guide and direct my career as well as my personal life. I am forever grateful for those that have taken the time to invest in me ...
One of the core philosophies of Gray Cat is “more than consulting, we actually get work done" and one area of expertise at Gray Cat is that we serve as a Interim Executive Leader for a division or com...
One of the biggest challenges an organization faces is change. Change can cause disruption not only in operations and procedures but can have a material impact on the culture of the organization. Man...
As an entrepreneur, there is always a little trepidation on whether breaking out on your own will work out - not only in the short term, but ongoing as well.
Having lasted more than two decades with ...
You may think about your business 24/7, but chances are your customers do not. Hard to believe, right?
I am a big believer that the successful businessperson is always considering how they can “conne...
LinkedIn has been the number one source of leads and clients for Gray Cat. Â
Gray Cat has been built on word-of-mouth and referrals by creating profile(s) - both personal profile and Gray Cat company...
When times are good, let the capital dollars flow!Â
Developing and constructing new locations for a multi-unit operator is perhaps one of the most gratifying events in the overall health of the chai...
Recently, I was a guest on the Jada Willis podcast focused on leadership and establishing credibility. Â