Leadership
How to Battle the Dragon AND Avoid the Encounter
Sometimes a competitor is just too entrenched, too strong, too well equipped to directly face in battle. At least that is the conventional wisdom. Yet, there are constant examples of new entrants into a niche…
5 Proven Ways to Build and Manage Great Teams
A team is a group of people who come together towards a common goal. In any given organization, there must be a functional team to work to run effectively. In as much as people are…
How to Mentor Your Employees
No business owner wants to look around the office and see a bunch of bored, lazy employees who are all but falling asleep at their desks. Aside from making good hiring decisions, what else can…
Are You Coping Well with an Ever-Changing Workforce?
In the past, employees would often commit to one company for many years and work their way up the career ladder. However, the working world has changed and has welcomed the rise of millennial workers,…
9 Best Practices for Viral Growth
Every startup company you’ll ever find will always be aiming to reach the same common goal: Growth. But not just any kind of growth, they want solid, constant, fast, and profitable growth. In other words,…
Maximizing Staff Engagement and Productivity at Meetings
At one point or another, we’ve all had the pleasure of attending a painfully unproductive meeting. Most businesses have far too many meetings and we’re just not very effective at them. We may be ‘at…
Having a System in Place for Your Business
Recently, the soccer coach of my son’s soccer team passed away. On top of being the coach of my son, he was the owner of a sportswear manufacturing and distributing business for 15 years. From…
Soaring to Success: How to Build a Winning Small Business Team
When Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane assembled a contending Major League Baseball team, he gained lots of notoriety for signing players using a strategic analysis of their statistics that had never been done before….
What Do You Wish You’d Known Yesterday?
Wouldn’t it be great if there were no more digital or printed reports to tell us what happened in the past? I know. We need financial data for comparison, and to a degree—for planning. But…
First Be Consistent, Then Become Great!
I recently read an article “Consistency Is Far Greater Than Rare Moments of Greatness” by Scott Ginsberg The Nametag Guy. In it he makes the point “Because ultimately, consistency is greater than rare moments of greatness….