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Saving Small Business Advisory Blog: July 2013

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Saving Small Business Advisory Blog. Monday, July 22, 2013. For example, if you use verbal communication as your method of explaining a process, it has a high probability of changing from day to day. Remember the game where you pass a story around the room and by the time it gets to the last person, it has changed significantly? Requires a simple flow process placed in the JBS (Job Breakdown Sheet),. WI (Work Instructions) sheet, or whatever you call your process sheets, at the appropriate location.

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Saving Small Business Advisory Blog: July 2014

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Saving Small Business Advisory Blog. Monday, July 14, 2014. You Are What You Project. Recently I came across and old article in the Harvard Business Review about Steven Jobs, and a particular word struck a note with me. The word was [reportedly] from his mentor, Mike Markkula. The word is “Impute.” If you run a search on this word you will find a number of meanings like: assigning guilt to someone,. Or [from a financial standpoint]. How does this relate to small businesses? Could that be possible?

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Saving Small Business Advisory Blog: September 2014

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Saving Small Business Advisory Blog. Tuesday, September 30, 2014. Baseball, Football, and Small business. The point is; business is only somewhat like sports in that you have to have good players. The problem comes from the fact that there are few [if any] farm teams to grow new players, and the cost of training and turnover is often a barrier for a small business person to make the investment. So where am I going with all of this? Small businesses don’t usually have the wear-withal to have a pool ...

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Saving Small Business Advisory Blog: December 2013

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Saving Small Business Advisory Blog. Thursday, December 19, 2013. Political rhetoric vs. Smart Business choices. So as much as I would like to stay out of this debate, I feel compelled to relate what my 35 plus years of working in and with small businesses has taught me. My caveat is: I will not be. Quoting the recent studies by the Employment Policies Institute –. 8230; if you force small businesses to increase the minimum wage for starting employees, you will force them to penalize top performer’...

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Saving Small Business Advisory Blog: June 2013

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Saving Small Business Advisory Blog. Monday, June 3, 2013. Or Telling the Customer. What they want to hear? If you are customer that requires extensive, manufacturing, construction, or development of one-off services, you probably are asking for deliveries that you really don’t believe will happen. Why? Partially because of the myriad of variables that impact complex projects and partially because there are few people who can really manages multiple complex projects. Typically, cost overruns, rework, rec...

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Saving Small Business Advisory Blog: November 2013

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Saving Small Business Advisory Blog. Monday, November 18, 2013. Selling Yourself Out of Business. Ever since the meltdown of the economy in 2008ish, many (not all) businesses went on a cost cutting and price slashing rampage. Each business that participated in the frenzy was hoping to keep backlog on their books and some semblance of cash flow through their doors; each anticipating a quick-fix turnaround at which time they could go back to reasonable margins. It’s simple –we are still buying ...According...

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Saving Small Business Advisory Blog: Selling Yourself Out of Business

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Saving Small Business Advisory Blog. Monday, November 18, 2013. Selling Yourself Out of Business. Ever since the meltdown of the economy in 2008ish, many (not all) businesses went on a cost cutting and price slashing rampage. Each business that participated in the frenzy was hoping to keep backlog on their books and some semblance of cash flow through their doors; each anticipating a quick-fix turnaround at which time they could go back to reasonable margins. It’s simple –we are still buying ...According...

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Saving Small Business Advisory Blog: Baseball, Football, and Small business

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Saving Small Business Advisory Blog. Tuesday, September 30, 2014. Baseball, Football, and Small business. The point is; business is only somewhat like sports in that you have to have good players. The problem comes from the fact that there are few [if any] farm teams to grow new players, and the cost of training and turnover is often a barrier for a small business person to make the investment. So where am I going with all of this? Small businesses don’t usually have the wear-withal to have a pool ...

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Saving Small Business Advisory Blog: June 2015

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Saving Small Business Advisory Blog. Thursday, June 18, 2015. Dr James Belasco, entrepreneur and author of many leadership and management books – including “Flight of the Buffalo,” wore out four (count that out, 4! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). If you view my web page at www.norark.com you will see that I am commited to the success of small business through executive mentoring and hands-on training with my clients. View my complete profile. Simple template. Template images by luoman.

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Saving Small Business Advisory Blog: January 2013

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Saving Small Business Advisory Blog. Monday, January 28, 2013. In my home state, Maryland, there is a unique museum, ‘The Modern Museum of Industry’ that serves testimony to the innovations that have emerged from the manufacturing sector. We stood back and watched those talents erode away to cheap labor. No matter how LEAN a company was, or how innovative it became, the industry was succumbing to greedy bottom-liners. China’s labor was below .35 per hour, even a robot cost more to run. It was at that tim...