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Design Matters
Let me make my position very clear…design absolutely matters. Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. While I have heard many a professional downplay the value of design, it has been my experience that most business people that espouse this opini

6 Tips on How to Hold Short Staff Meetings
Here's how to hold a short, effective staff meeting.1) In general. Keep them short. Most staff meetings should last less than an hour. You want your staff to spend their time working on things that earn money for your business, not sitting in meetings. Keep them positive. Negative meetings contain insults, ridicule, and at

No, it was not a typo. What it is really all about is that those of us that are self-employed need help planning our businesses. When planning our business however we need to understand that so many sources offering help are completely irrelevant to our life. Why, because the so-called expert business gurus talk in theory not grass roots reality. I visited one of Donald Trump’s websites the other day for an example and on it there was a flow chart explaining some theory on how to manage people. It was written by some guy with a doctorate in management theory at an Ivy League School. It reminded me of some of the theories presented in my college business classes. Theories that are entirely irrelevant to me and my business clients. 99% of the people in business for themselves are not worried about how to manage their labor force. Most entrepreneurs are worried about how to manage their children and the barking dog while they answer the phone. Yet somehow, people keep buying into this stuff as if it’s applicable. Note: it is not applicable. It’s not that I want people planning or starti

An Explanation As To What A Business Line of Credit Is
This is a very common form of financing offered by most business banks and is basically like having business capital on tap that a business can access at any time. However, this will only be up to a certain amount that has been agreed between the business and the lender (bank). With such financing there will often be no collate

e completely irrelevant to our life. Why, because the so-called expert business gurus talk in theory not grass roots reality. I visited one of Donald Trump’s websites the other day for an example and on it there was a flow chart explaining some theory on how to manage people. It was written by some guy with a doctorate in management theory at an Ivy League School. It reminded me of some of the theories presented in my college business classes. Theories that are entirely irrelevant to me and my business clients. 99% of the people in business for themselves are not worried about how to manage their labor force. Most entrepreneurs are worried about how to manage their children and the barking dog while they answer the phone. Yet somehow, people keep buying into this stuff as if it’s applicable. Note: it is not applicable. It’s not that I want people planning or start

Preserve the Loyalty You Deserve
My video duplication company has been a reliable and responsive supplier. They should be – I have spent more than $62,000 with them in the past few years.I received a complaint from a customer about one of my video programs that ‘skipped’ during playback. I thought it was an oddity and immediately replaced the disc. But th

flow chart explaining some theory on how to manage people. It was written by some guy with a doctorate in management theory at an Ivy League School. It reminded me of some of the theories presented in my college business classes. Theories that are entirely irrelevant to me and my business clients. 99% of the people in business for themselves are not worried about how to manage their labor force. Most entrepreneurs are worried about how to manage their children and the barking dog while they answer the phone. Yet somehow, people keep buying into this stuff as if it’s applicable. Note: it is not applicable. It’s not that I want people planning or start

Get Their Attention... It's How You Package It
Last year, when I was visiting my sister-in-law, I noticed at breakfast the kids were eating breakfast cereal that was packaged in a plain, no frills, plastic bag. It had a small label on it with a barcode announcing the price and name. She commented that the cereal was half the price of the brand-name cereals and just as good.asses. Theories that are entirely irrelevant to me and my business clients. 99% of the people in business for themselves are not worried about how to manage their labor force. Most entrepreneurs are worried about how to manage their children and the barking dog while they answer the phone. Yet somehow, people keep buying into this stuff as if it’s applicable. Note: it is not applicable. It’s not that I want people planning or start

Filing Systems For The Paperless Office
Filing systems are not going away any time soon. The paperless world we thought was created with the advent of computers has done nothing more than create an exponential amount of reasons for us to generate more hard copy documents requiring storage such as file cabinets. This need for more office document storage has also increa

ge their children and the barking dog while they answer the phone. Yet somehow, people keep buying into this stuff as if it’s applicable. Note: it is not applicable. It’s not that I want people planning or starting their own business to think small but I do want them to think about their current reality. Save the flow charts for later.

People like Trump can continue to peddle this stuff because of our desire to think that whatever he says will lay the golden path to our fortune. Kiyosaki says, “make sure to check the fruit on the tree” and I think that makes great sense but apparently and thankfully nobody checked the fruit on his trees when he was just a seedling. Nor did they check it after he went bankrupt. He’s a great entrepreneur and I truly believe he’s got his heart in the right place but be sure to recognize we all start somewhere. Sometimes information from different sources makes us more confused and anxious as we try to make their “stuff” fit our situation. Often people that have "made it" fail to give you the real truth about

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Changing Jobs When The Boss Is A Jerk

In a recent conversation with a young man who works in a restaurant, an all too familiar scenario was played out again. The young man recognized me as a frequent customer, and struck up a conversation that surprised me with the level of trust he had in confiding his situation. He said that he was trying to find a better job, because the place where he was working was low in pay and had no benefits. Unfortunately, he also stated that all the efforts he had recently tried in finding a better job were being thwarted by a negative reference from his current supervisor.

Choose Your Job Options With Care

Want to be an astronaut or a baker or a carpenter? Perhaps you'd prefer to be a chef or a pilot or a successful entrepreneur? Choosing your options is never going to be that easy; what you need is to collate the things you are good at with the things you enjoy doing and then see where that leads you.

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