It wasn’t that long ago when managers waited with bated breath as their accountants or bookkeepers “closed out” a month or a quarter. That’s when the results came in and they could officially judge the company’s performance. When you’re chasing profitability, operating within this system made you feel like you were in one of those […]
Editor’s Note: This post is sponsored by Staples. All the comments and opinions are my own. If you’ve been running your small business for almost any length of time, you’ve seen some pretty dramatic ups and downs in the economy. Frankly, I don’t care if you and your team are the best salespeople in the […]
Editor’s Note: This post is sponsored by Staples. All the comments and opinions are my own. Let me give you some bedrock business principles and share a couple of corollaries: If you can’t measure it you can’t control it, and If you can’t control it, you can’t grow it. Those are simple enough and easy […]
It was January 1957, when an accidental entrepreneur, Walter Fredrick Morrison (“Fred”), sold the rights for the Pluto Platter (later known as the Frisbee) to the Wham-O toy company. (The name may have come from the Frisbie Baking Company.) As legend has it, Fred and his girlfriend were tossing a popcorn lid back and forth […]
The so-called “digital nomads” may be the glamor children of the mobile workforce, but the traditional – and somewhat iconic – road warrior is the no-nonsense-worker against which real productivity must be measured. Many small business owners and startup founders spend a lot of time on the road, much of which is behind the wheel […]