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The Free Consultants: July 2010
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A blog for small and medium sized business owners to gain access to high value discussions about common business topics. Thursday, July 8, 2010. You are either growing or you're dying. As Big Tom Callahan says about business in the movie Tommy Boy. What if "real" growth was measured as the ability to stay in business? Would you know how to recognize areas of "real" growth in your company? Probably not, but why? My bet is that you have done it through looking beyond the tangible and focusing on the percep...
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The Free Consultants: January 2010
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A blog for small and medium sized business owners to gain access to high value discussions about common business topics. Sunday, January 17, 2010. Innovation. That's not a bad idea! Of senior executives see their companies as more innovative than the competition, and 17%. And "lack of a big idea" ( 41%. Source: Ernst and Young. 2) View innovation as a core business product- You would never stop making your product better, why would you stop making your company better? 3) Innovation isn't just a way to im...
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The Free Consultants: May 2010
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A blog for small and medium sized business owners to gain access to high value discussions about common business topics. Monday, May 24, 2010. Are you a good boss? And in my posts on why we as managers are bad at making decisions Part 1. I argue that we are all victims of our own limited cognitive capacities as human beings. What was happening in my personal life? What was happening at the organization? What level of work was I at? 2) Understanding that while it may rain down from above, a good manager i...
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The Free Consultants: Broken Windows and the zombie minimum culture
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A blog for small and medium sized business owners to gain access to high value discussions about common business topics. Tuesday, August 24, 2010. Broken Windows and the zombie minimum culture. It wasn’t until about a week later as I drove through the town where the organization is located and right past the HQ itself that it dawned on me… Broken Windows! More so “ broken windows theory. You ask. Because in a situation such as this, a disorganized zombie culture cannot be effectively transformed from...
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The Free Consultants: August 2010
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A blog for small and medium sized business owners to gain access to high value discussions about common business topics. Tuesday, August 24, 2010. Broken Windows and the zombie minimum culture. It wasn’t until about a week later as I drove through the town where the organization is located and right past the HQ itself that it dawned on me… Broken Windows! More so “ broken windows theory. You ask. Because in a situation such as this, a disorganized zombie culture cannot be effectively transformed from...
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The Free Consultants: March 2010
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A blog for small and medium sized business owners to gain access to high value discussions about common business topics. Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Know the limits of your management skills (Part 1). Many small business owners are familiar with Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. And its implications about business. On the whole as a management text it has fallen out of favor with most people in business for its aggressive comparisons to war and the not so easy to apply when not engaged in an actual war tactics.
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The Free Consultants: April 2010
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A blog for small and medium sized business owners to gain access to high value discussions about common business topics. Friday, April 16, 2010. 5 simple rules for understanding millenials. For "gotcha" pictures of employees, it is a fact that people forget how conspicuous you really are on the Internet. How then does a company make rules and govern people who have a fundamental disagreement with the rationalization of the rules? My argument is that Millenials. Twitter, and other social media and social ...
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The Free Consultants: November 2009
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A blog for small and medium sized business owners to gain access to high value discussions about common business topics. Sunday, November 22, 2009. Decisions, decisions. why we are bad at making them and what we can do to make better ones for our businesses. (Part 1). One of the most important aspects about being a leader in business is making decisions. In the hierarchy of decision types the pinnacle is a strategic decision. These are the decisions that make or break the business. Yes there certainly is.
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The Free Consultants: December 2009
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A blog for small and medium sized business owners to gain access to high value discussions about common business topics. Sunday, December 13, 2009. Incentive pay. Are you rewarding the right behaviors? The quickest way to tell if your plan is rewarding the right behaviors is to look at how much you paid out in 2008 and how much you are paying out in 2009? 1) Is your plan too simple? This question could better be phrased "Are you paying people to simply do their job? Both behaviors equally. All to oft...
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