Maximizing Employee Performance Every year the Aberdeen Group (www.aberdeen.com) conducts a study of approaches and practices of over 900 business professionals around the topic of Employee   Read More »

Get two or more entrepreneurs together and in no time the topic of customers from Hades will arise. Mixed in amongst the laughter and tale telling will be the wounds that are still slow to heal.   Read More »

While listening to a radio call-in show focused on business issues, the program's host and the expert guest were wrestling with the issues of pricing and the recession.   Read More »

The assumption of nearly every entrepreneur is that with some hard work and a bit of luck, their small business will someday become a BIG business.   Read More »

In talking with entrepreneurs and small business owners over the last few months it seems that the one topic that surfaces more frequently than others is how to best respond to the current   Read More »

The pressure is unrelenting on many businesses to distinguish themselves from their competition. Differentiate or die is the mantra for those entrepreneurs looking to gain a lead over others in   Read More »

The process for many entrepreneurs starting their own business is to recognize an opportunity within the market and look to exploit it. The opportunity might be to provide products or services   Read More »

The last few months have included televised newscasts, radio call-in shows, internet chats, bulletin boards and blogs, newspaper articles, and various pundits sharing views on the eventual   Read More »

One of the questions that gets asked often when entrepreneurs are studied or interviewed is whether succeeding in business for oneself is a skill that can be learned or taught or if it is   Read More »

Given the renown that comes with a weekly column covering business topics, executives, business owners, and entrepreneurs will approach and seek positive coverage of themselves or their   Read More »

As a business owner you may have made the decision to hire people to work for the business as employees. What you may not have assessed is just how well prepared you are to do it successfully.   Read More »

With the weather turning more Spring-like, Little League Baseball games have returned to the playing fields and embedded into the chatter of infielders, the carpool planning of parents shuttling   Read More »

Taking advantage of the warm and sunny Spring weather and the fact that schools were off for a week, it was an ideal opportunity for my High School Junior and I to head off to visit college   Read More »

For many business owners the thought of the business outlasting their own ownership and management never occurs to them and has never been considered.   Read More »

One of the biggest challenges confronting many businesses of all sizes and stripes is differentiating their product line or their company from competition.   Read More »

Rarely does one find business advice while tuning in to Easy Listening Radio stations, but just such an occasion occurred earlier this month. While I was being shuttled from the rental car lot   Read More »

We live in a society that revels in the stories of heroic events, a belief that David can slay Goliath, and the assumption that improbable odds can be overcome with guile and gumption and a   Read More »

For a break from the rapid pace of living in the Northeast, managing business, home, family, and all the other pressures needing attention in an all too busy life, I will grab an occasional   Read More »

Every now and again, with the daily collection of the mail, an unexpected package will appear from a company you may never have worked with before.   Read More »

Every once in awhile, thoughts coalesce and observations come into a focus that had not been there before to illuminate insights that had been dormant and awaiting the introduction of a catalyst   Read More »