Where is your focus – on tomorrow, next month or 2018?
It is first thing Monday morning and you have been in the office for 6 ½ minutes when your Sales Manager buzzes you. Your top customer has a problem and she needs your input “right now”.
Are you looking at the right numbers to run a profitable business?
Now that tax time is over, and hopefully you are griping about the check you just wrote to Uncle Sam, I’ve got to ask – what numbers do you track to run your business? This may seem so simple, but I’ve found that finding and tracking the most meaningful activities that drive sales, efficiency and […]
Are you right here, right now?
I was talking to my daughter while making dinner the other night, and I remembered that I needed to send an email and oh I needed to get the butter out…this is when
Are you prepared for the health crisis of a KEY team member?
I was talking with a Senior Executive the other day about his 67 year old colleague who had a health crisis 3 months ago. The good man has not returned to work and they don’t know when he will. Further, they don’t know what is wrong so they are all in limbo. This month they […]
Are you one of those who did NOT watch the Super Bowl?
From the media hype, you would think all 316 million Americans were glued to their televisions, with their family or friends gathered around them, watching the most important game of 2015.
It’s been a year of Sunday blogs
I realized today that it’s been a year of Sunday blogs. In reviewing them, I noticed that I talk a lot about
Don’t miss the opportunity presented by a crisis to make change!
It seems like we prepare all our lives for some types of crises never knowing when they will happen.
Why is micromanaging so attractive? How do we stop it?
What trigger snaps you into details like a hound dog after a rabbit?
Employers coping with the minimum wage increase. How can they do it?
I’ve been asked a lot recently, what are other employers doing to cope with the minimum wage increase? In fact, some are pretty frustrated because when the minimum wage goes up, that is not the only business cost that increases.
Do I really need to get the Sunday N.Y. Times?
Last week I talked about exercising the muscles around ethics. This week let’s do a little tune-up around expenses. Yes, I can hear you….stop saying “shoot me now!”