Chuck Blakeman

Author, speaker, and founder of the Crankset Group.



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Leaders are reactive, not proactive.

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The objective of every business owner should be to do as little managing and as much leading as possible. We think good leaders should be highly proactive. In some ways that shows they aren’t really leaders, but managers. What’s the difference?

Skinny Line

Microsoft is rotting from the inside out.

Conquest destroys the conqueror.


The first of Microsoft’s “12 Secrets of Microsoft Management” is possibly the worst management principle in history. It reveals an Industrial Age scarcity view of the world that none of us should emulate.

Skinny Line

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

Stop thinking. Get moving.


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.

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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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