Burrito maker Chipotle is the current poster child for Murphy’s Law: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And smart small business, medium-sized business, and large business leaders will take note of what has happened to Chipotle over the last couple of years to carefully examine their own management structure and talent. The food […]
Looks like a disaster waiting to happen… We all know that common expression and it perfectly reflects my thoughts when I was recently reviewing the results of Nationwide’s 2017 Business Owners Attitudes and Usage Study. Here are the key findings that I found rather scary: Only 20 percent of business owners have built a disaster […]
By Jamie Zajac Is your small business ready to get back up and running quickly after unexpected system downtime? Have you seriously considered all of the events – from minor accidental deletions to major natural disasters – that might cause mission-critical systems to go offline? Would you be prepared to get back in business? If you […]
A major hurricane—winds at least 111 mph—hasn’t hit the United States since 2005, and I’m not forgetting about “Hurricane Sandy” and the devastation it caused. Technically, Sandy wasn’t a hurricane. However, we should take Sandy as a stark warning that stands in the midst of some pretty mellow years in terms of hurricane damage. While […]
June marks the beginning of hurricane season. Who can forget the havoc hurricane Sandy wrecked on the East Coast last year? Many experts say it was the most damaging hurricane in recorded U.S. history. While only 11 percent of business owners reported physical or structural property damage, 52% percent experienced loss of sales or revenue […]