Many of you submit questions through my website. I do my best to respond in a timely manner with information to help you succeed in your business. Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of questions regarding employees who leave to become a competitor so I thought I’d take this opportunity to discuss ways to protect […]
The statistics are shocking: * 75 percent of all employees have stolen from their employers at least once. * $50,000,000,000 is lost to employee theft each year in the US. * 33 percent of all business bankruptcies are caused by employee theft. Most of us look out over our team and think nothing but good […]
At a recent women business owner conference, I participated in a roundtable with other women entrepreneurs to discuss common challenges. The dominant topic, which surprised me, was employee recruitment and retention. Many women expressed concern about hiring an employee, training them and then watching them leave after a short tenure. The High Cost of Employee […]
In the Medieval times—the age, not the dinner theater—all they had to worry about were the bugs that lived on rats. Today we have to contend with super bugs that resist the most powerful antibiotics, along with bugs, viruses,Trojan Horses, malware and hackers that plague the virtual world. For a small business, combatting this phalanx […]
“They say that breaking up is hard to do.” – Neil Sedaka. The end of any relationship is painful, especially when it comes as a surprise. When it’s an employer-employee relationship, not only is it painful, it can cause a variety of logistical problems that make it even worse. I recently discussed ways small business […]