The 5 Most Important Delegation Rules
As a business owner, do you believe the only way to get something done right is to do it yourself? Do you prefer to do the work yourself rather than teach someone else how to do it? If you do, that’s limited thinking and unproductive behavior. If you avoid delegation...
3 Ways to Control Business Risk and Reap Great Returns
There was a time when entrepreneurship had negative implications. Most people thought business owners were crazy because the risk was too great. After all, what normal person would invest everything they had to start a business that may not make it? With so many...
Right Thoughts Produce Right Leaders
Every one of us add to or detract from our professional and personal lives based on our own thoughts. Our thoughts influence what and how we achieve. In turn, our actions result from the input to our conscious and subconscious mind. If we feed our mind with thoughts...
Living and Learning Go Hand in Hand
I once read that by the time people reach their mid-thirties, they have stopped learning new skills. In addition, they no longer possess the discipline or knowledge to be in control of their lives. Instead, they are moved one way or another by others, the economy, or...
A Sure-Fire Formula for Future Success
While on a plane, I read an article written by a futurist. In the article, he claimed that in the near future, 10 to 15 years from now, employment opportunities would be about credentials. He suggested that education and training would confer the authority, status,...
Five Tips to Increase Employee Engagement
You’ve seen them. Employees staring into space, watching the clock, heads resting in their hands. These are signs of the same ailment that afflicts too many employees—disinterest and disengagement. Lack of Engagement The lack of engagement affects many organizations....
Why You Should Hire Slow but Fire Fast
I am empathetic to an employer who has an empty chair. It causes a burden on others to perform the work left by the departed employee. Or maybe the work doesn’t get done at all. The natural tendency is to hire someone, anyone, as fast as we can to get that empty...
4 Core Ways to Strengthen Your Company Culture
Company culture includes more than your organization’s mission statement, company handbook or formalized policies. It’s the personality of a company, defining the atmosphere (whether negative or positive) in which your employees work. It’s that nebulous, yet defining...