Chuck Blakeman

Author, speaker, and founder of the Crankset Group.



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We Burn a Lot of Fuel On Takeoff


Business owners are always wondering how the next guy seems to get things off the ground so well and why they themselves are always struggling to just keep what they have afloat. It’s because we don’t understand momentum.

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The Two Driving Forces in Business


There are really only two fundamental driving forces in business. One of them can be helpful but is short lived, but the other one can make you very successful for decades.

  1. Moving away from something.
  2. Moving toward something.

Only the second one creates lasting success. The first one might even create failure.

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Planning won’t even get you a good plan, let alone success.


Planning does not create success or even the best plan. It also doesn’t create action. Most planning just creates paper, spreadsheets, complexity, doubt, paralysis, and dream-dampening. There are two things that create a far better plan than planning itself.



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You’re too busy making money; no business can survive that. Your business should give you both time and money. Not just money.

Making Money is Killing Your Business

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I started Crankset Group out of a desire to help small businesses in the Denver, Colorado area grow and mature. It continues to mature itself as we bring a lot of the tools and practices that I’ve created working one-on-one with business owners over the years online. Now these tools and resources are available to you.

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