Posts By: Rob Knapp

Leverage Your Practice Using Stairstep To The Stars

Stairstep To The Stars is a Supernova concept used in the segmentation process. In order to continue to grow while keeping your practice at a maximum number of clients each year you will need to ‘weed out’ those clients that no longer meet your minimum. You do that by giving them to another Supernova advisor… Read more »

Are All Your Moving Parts Working Together?

 “Managers get business done through people, Leaders get people done through business” Larry Wilson  Like a fine tuned sports car advisory teams have a lot of moving parts that have to work in synchronicity with each other in order for the whole to function. If one part fails the whole machine is affected.  What are… Read more »

Reflective Accountability With The Gameboard

Reflective accountability is a term you may not have heard before. We were looking for a way to describe the personal experience of having a gameboard within a Supernova practice. Accountability arrives preloaded with meaning: responsibility, maturity, integrity and so on. Reflection is how accountability grows, collectively and individually. No one can force a person… Read more »

Playboy Representative on Campus

I walked into the crowded freshman dorm and introduced myself as Playboy’s representative on campus. I said,” I am taking orders for subscriptions to Playboy for 12, 24 or  36 months”. I signed up the entire dorm. As a freshman who needed money, I knew I had hit a gold mine, and I worked it… Read more »

Brilliant Execution Is The Key

There is a saying among venture capitalist, “Ideas are cheap, it is the brilliant execution of the ideas that make people millions.” Steve Job’s brilliance was the execution of good ideas. Lots of people wanted a better phone, he brought it to market. Lots of people wanted a better service model, we created Supernova. It… Read more »