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 […]
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 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 […]
Bootstrapping Your Business You may have heard stories of a poor hungry child who buys a bottle of water for 30 cents and sells it for a dollar on the street, then buys two bottles and sells them, then more and more until he has a thriving business. Or the man that starts with a […]
Need Money for Your Business? Every small to medium sized business owner at some point in time in their career has been asked this simple question. Whether it be from a credible finance company, a friend, a relative, an angel investor, a retail company, car dealer or a credit card company. The intrigue of […]
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