The next generation anything: any product or service delivered to the world is going to be the best dang collaborative team who can deliver the best dang product or service to anywhere from anywhere. This is a 50,000 foot view of where the world is headed. We are no longer small-town USA. Although your company [...]
Lately I have been pondering the idea of home. Home to me is family, and everyone being accepted for who they are; it is comfortable. Like anything, It is also hectic with events and obligations. There are highs and lows. Such challenges and pressures are usually accompanied by solutions and laughter. It’s much like business. [...]
Eliminating all those costs associated with employees and hiring independent contractors may save a lot of money, but it can also be a minefield. Just because you pay a worker like an independent contractor does not necessarily make him one. And if you are subsequently challenged on that classification by the IRS or your state [...]
Last week we left off with the 3rd stage of a business and this week we will talk about the next stages of the small business cycle. Stage 4 – Emerging As a small business you might be emerging into higher levels of complexity and strategy. Strategy is important at any stage of business but [...]
Business progression is something that I have to very quickly access when getting to know a potential customer. From my experience I can quickly identify the stage that someone is in with just a few questions. This is more of an art than a science, after all we are all unique individuals. Each stage requires [...]
As I get older (not that I am old) I notice more and more how having more stuff actually causes more stress. We do live in a consuming society. The next new gadget promises new and exciting features that you CAN NOT live without. We live with what we generally have defined as first world [...]
On the road to more discovery I ran across this book last month. I was intrigued by the tenacity of this author. So I wanted to share. This is good stuff for anyone. This book by Peter Arnell is called Shift. In this book he talked about having a why not me too attitude. [...]
Bad accounting? Records are a mess? Well, it’s going to cost you. Yep, just like everything else in business there is an opportunity cost to doing things badly. I am approached all the time and people ask me right off what it’s going to cost for us to do their accounting and I [...]
Whoever said that business is business and not personal got it way wrong! I am being bold and saying business can down right hurt sometimes. Oh yeah, we are talking painful and hard. I am talking about the crying at your desk with a hundred tissues kind of cry. They actually have emoji’s for this [...]
I know you have heard of it. It’s a dark shadow hanging out in the corners of every company. Have you thought about how to be more creative but too scared to mention it because maybe if you step outside of the lines you will either go to jail or lose all self-respect. Creative Accounting [...]