The last time you had to estimate the length of time a project would take, how reliable was that estimate? Often this is one the hardest things for people to do accurately and yet it is also one of the most important things that you can learn how to do. We need to understand how… Continue Reading
Category Archives: The One Thing To Improve Your Business This Week
To Do or Not to Do? Here’s How to Answer the Question.
So the question is, should you invest your time, energy and money making that idea that hit you in the shower this morning come into existence? Can it really make a difference in your business? There are two easy approaches to evaluating improvement ideas, the first approach is one that I find works well with… Continue Reading
Putting the Suggestion Box to Death
Do you or have you ever had an improvement idea suggestion box for your company? How is it or how did it work out for you? Did you ever really get good ideas? Where you ever able to take any of those good ideas and get them done? The sad thing is that most improvement… Continue Reading
Do More Today: 5 Office Efficiency Tips
1. Eat the worm – Do the thing you don’t want to do first. When you think about the things you have to do today, what tasks are there that you find yourself already drained just thinking about them – Cold calling potential customers; Addressing an employee issue; Completing that detailed proposal? We all have… Continue Reading
Not Enough Hours in the Day??
“Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. “ – Ambrose Bierce It has been said that we live in the age of the microwave oven – we want everything to happen now. The problem that I see in most small businesses is that everything does happen now – the phone rings, an employee… Continue Reading
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