Management Strategies

The morale can go up and down like the DOW Jones. Some of it is a natural result of outside influences, such as a struggling economy. Most of it is...

For a small business, one great client makes a difference. One big project makes a big difference. One more rock solid deal makes a rock solid difference. If your business's...

  Suggestion boxes adorn the hallways of far too many tyrannical small businesses. You know the drill. Write a suggestion on a card. Keep it anonymous. And if your lucky,...

In this business answers segment we answer these questions: 1. What is the difference between marketing and public relations? 2. When scaling a business, what should I do first? 3....

One of the pros for working for someone else is that you have co-workers to prank. There are the great office pranks, like covering your bosses’ office in Post-It Notes,...

5 Easy Steps To Finding Your Talents Is talent born or made? The dictionary says talent is a “natural endowment” of a person—so we’re all born with our talents. It’s...

  Quick. Think of the plumbing business. What comes to mind? Exposed butt cracks or a company doing some twenty-odd million dollars in business. There is a reason "plumber-crack" comes...

7 Ways To Spark Innovation In Your Business Leaders innovate. Followers follow. Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, was quoted as once saying, “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”...

Systematizing your business means freedom. Not just one type of freedom, but many. You are freed from doing the work. And systems even give you the choice to simply watch...

Failure is an extraordinary enemy. It plays unfairly. It gets in your mind. Failure is notorious for its stealthy ability to get lock you into a downward death spiral.  And...