Back to the Beginning: Why Leadership and Management Start With YOU
In just about every business, people are the best resource, and often the most difficult. We're going to take a look at how to develop a really great team, starting with the basics. The most fundamental thing to creating a really great team is YOU.
What Makes a Good Manager?
Do you define a manager only by the tasks for which they are responsible? Steve explains that HOW a great manager accomplishes tasks with their team is far more important than the tasks themselves. A good manager employs servant leadership to encourage and orchestrate the tasks completed by the team.
How to Manage the Three Different Types of Employees that Make Up Your Workforce
Explore the different ways to lead and collaborate with the three different types of employees that exist within your workforce.
How to achieve personal freedom
Today I wrap up the series on interruptions and time wasters with a challenge for you. If you could only work 2 hours a day, that's right, 2 hours a day…
How to cut marketing costs and increase revenues
Marketing and advertising costs are often the first to go in a difficult economy. Fewer customers, fewer buyers mean fewer dollars coming…
Referrals are the secret to marketing success
While reading The Referral Engine by John Jantsch I came across an interesting statistic. It shouldn't have been a surprise since I see…
Beating Frustration in Your Small Business
Last time I told you about the 80/20 principle and recommended you read The 80/20 Principle. Take a minute to review that post on Pareto's Law.
Pareto's Law - more time, more profits, less headaches!
Want to change your life? I did when I "met" Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto. Actually he passed away in 1923 but I was introduced…
Cost-Effective Ways to Hire New Employees
There are some small signs of the recession residing a bit. NOT big signs, but for some of you, you may want to hire a few additional…
Lifestyle Design: Do You Know What You Want?
Lifestyle design is a new catch-all term for building a life and business/career, free from traditional constraints…
Customer Service & HR Lessons via Zappos.com
This weekend I watched a piece on Zappos.com on CBS Sunday Morning. For anyone unfamiliar with Zappos…
Is Your Personality Killing Business?
Is your personality killing your business? We all know someone who seems to chronically get in their own way. Short-tempered and short-sighted…
Go for the Small Business GOLD!
The Vancouver Olympics will be ending soon. Steeped in tradition that has lasted thousands of years, the Olympics offer no inherent rewards…
6 Leadership Qualities You Must Develop
Small business owners can be their own worst enemies. They can be short-tempered, short-sighted and chronically worried.
Treat Your Employees as Partners
Employee motivation is a challenging and complex issue. Why shouldn't employees be skeptical about investing their future in a single endeavor?