I was reading a post on Jay Goltz’s Boss School Blog entitled “Don’t Let the Door Hit You?” about employees who come to you and say they are leaving because they have a better offer somewhere else. The question he poses is this: do you let them go or do you negotiate? I really enjoyed [...]
I was talking to a business owner today who was lamenting the fact that his management team wasn’t functioning like a team and that he needed to do something to pull them together. I suggested he call “Scott,” a professor at a local college to see if he could help. Then I related to him [...]
When you think about things that would really devastate your business (you do think about those kinds of things from time to time, don’t you?) losing your data has to be right up there as one of the most devastating things that could happen. If your computer system crashed, and you lost phone numbers, invoicing [...]
I was thinking today about a company I worked with awhile back which had an incredible (?!) CEO. He was one of those people who’s always right. I’m not sure he’d ever made a mistake in anything in his entire life, and he was 100% closed to anyone’s opinion but his own. Of course you [...]
I have a son who’s been in the construction business for a few years. Last year he decided to return to college and get a degree. As he’s finishing up his general courses, it’s time to decide “what he wants to do when he grows up.” The other night we were talking about it and [...]
A couple of days ago I wrote about knowing who you are as a company and being sure your customers know who you are. Today, I came across this article by John Jantsch over at Duct Tape Marketing entitled, “What would you google if…” The point of the article was to ask your customers, “What [...]
I was reading Seth Godin’s Blog the other day and came across this story entitled, “Stress.” Of course the article wasn’t about stress at all; it was about knowing who you are as a business and making sure your clients /customers know exactly who you are as well. Here’s an excerpt from that piece: “That [...]
Like most people, I suppose, I like to read the facts. And I like to read them when they are presented in a clear concise way. But occasionally an article comes along that, although lengthy, is worth the read. Jeff Cornwall, over at The Entrepreneurial Mind has featured just such a piece. Entitled The Future [...]