People can make or break your business. This includes everyone from your professional advisers, suppliers, customers and clients to your employees, business partners, and even your friends and family. Making wrong decisions about any of the people with whom you deal can significantly hurt your business and impede—even destroy—everything you are trying to achieve. When […]
It’s a situation many of you have faced: a valued employee announces his intentions to leave in order to take another position. It’s one that I’ve experienced as well. When it happened to me I put a counter offer on the table and also made several other concessions. In the final analysis, it wasn’t just […]
For years we’ve seen legions of Japanese workers doing their morning exercises together at work. They’ve been far ahead of the US in workplace health and wellness awareness. Fortunately, it looks like we’re starting to get serious about wellness at work and I think it’s important that your small business keeps up with the trend. […]
Quelle horreur! French labor unions and corporate leaders recently took steps to strictly limit after-hours emails. The deal would give workers 11 hours of guaranteed freedom from business emails. The idea wasn’t popular with everyone in France, especially many young businesspeople who are trying to get startups off the ground. Right now, if approved by […]
Healthcare costs are a major issue for small business owners. Information from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce notes that approximately 88 percent of small businesses will see their insurance costs go up as a result of the ACA. One way to hold healthcare costs down, regardless what happens on the national stage, is to focus […]