Business Owner Stress Being a Business Owner can be rewarding, but it also comes with its fair share of stress and challenges. So many, in fact, that you may be feeling stress about things you didn’t even know you were stressed about. Certainly, the fear of failure is always on a Business Owner’s mind, and […]
Curbing Fraud Writing about a subject such as Fraud or Theft often makes me sound like I am mistrustful of people, for the record I am NOT. I truly believe that most people are trustworthy, loyal, honest and hard working most of the time. There can from time to time be a bad apple in […]
What Makes an Exceptional Leader? Let me begin by saying that there have been literally thousands of books and articles written about Leadership, Becoming a Great Leader, and transitioning from Managers to Leaders. For that matter I can admit to you that parts of this blog are paraphrased if not directly copied from a blog […]
Annual Planning – Simplified. Albert Einstein was quoted as saying, “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.” How often have you been asked to join a planning meeting and found yourself wondering if it was in fact a “planning […]
The Consultative Approach to Sales If you own a retail store that sells a common commodity or an on-line store you may not have the luxury of using this approach. It is common to be greeted by floor sales staff when you enter a retail store. Further, it has become the norm as a “first […]
The Most Common Mistakes Business Owners Make (Part 2) If you’ve read Part 1 in this series you will have recognized that they are a broad list of three common mistakes that deal primarily with planning, organizing and measuring. Not only are they relevant for start-up businesses but they apply quite significantly to those who […]
The Most Common Mistakes Business Owners Make (Part 1) Every person that I know, have met or heard about that has embarked upon the challenge of starting a business thinks very little of the common mistakes that have plagued most other start-ups. I can appreciate the fact that once the decision is made to own […]
False Indignation Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like people are more combative than ever these days. Perhaps I am wrong, as I have no evidence, but have you ever noticed that when you try to take corrective action with someone, they attack you in order to misdirect the conversation and escape the responsibility. […]
Finding Employees… it’s no longer a part-time activity. Just like most things you thought were going to be relatively easy, finding employees turns out to be harder than you thought. Contemporary news points out that most companies, especially small to medium size companies are having difficulty finding people to work. In recent months Chick-Fila has […]
Mean Time Between Failures As a Financial and Business Analyst I am often asked if it is possible, with the right information, to predict what will happen in any business. The limitation of analysis is that there can always be a new factor or variable that you did not take into account or that […]
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