If you follow this approach, we’re pretty sure that you and your company will have a happy new year. And next year at this time, you’ll be planning how to increase your profitability even more in 2018. Source: Forbes | Simple Tools To Make More Money...
Santa appeared in our office a couple of days after Christmas a year ago. Enough time has now elapsed that we’re free to talk about the experience. That day, we heard a clatter in the reception area, out where the fireplace is. All of...
At some point people will have to learn to take on the challenges of global competition together. As Benjamin Franklin said, "We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” Let’s hope we will soon reach that point, so we...
When the time comes to sell your company, what will make it attractive to buyers? How can you be sure to get a fair price? Source: Forbes | How To Build A Company You Can Sell...
J.D. Vance, a Yale Law School graduate and investment professional living in San Francisco, was born in rural Kentucky and grew up in the Rustbelt of southern Ohio. His father was mostly absent. His mother struggled with drug addiction. Young J.D. knew crushing poverty, several...
Of course, business is work, not a pickup softball game. People want to get paid for what they do. And open-book companies set up incentive plans pegged to those key numbers. If the forecast shows a bonus possibility of a week’s or a month’s worth...
Wells Fargo continues to wrestle with its recent scandal, in which some 5,000 employees were shown to have opened fake accounts. New CEO Tim Sloan said last Friday that he wants to “earn back” the bank’s reputation. Good luck to him. In the meantime,...
Most meetings are killers. They sap morale. They waste time. People don’t pay attention because they could care less about what’s being discussed. At one company, researchers found, participants in some meetings were sending an average of three e-mails or more for every half hour...
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf is scheduled to testify today before the Senate Banking Committee. He will doubtless be asked how the bank could possibly have allowed employees to open 1.5 million fraudulent bank accounts and half a million fake credit card accounts. Good...
An executive at a small metalworking company was describing a recent management meeting about how to confront a new competitive challenge. Source: Forbes | The Sad Legacy Of Us Vs. Them...