First of all, let’s get a clear understanding of what micromanaging is and what it might do to your people. Also- be aware that it’s mostly a bad thing and worse, I meet a lot of business owners who don’t even know they’re doing it. Stop micromanaging and you won't...

Imagine a hockey game without goals. Yep, if they take away the little nets at each end the game turns into the players skate around just flicking the puck to each other. The final score would always be 0 - 0. Let's try football without end zones? How about basketball...

The Meaning of SWOT: Analyzing your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunites, and Threats Who came up with SWOT? Like coffee and taking naps, it’s one of the best ideas we humans have cooked up. The person who came up with the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and...

Many non-profit organizations don't see themselves as a business. It's time they stop seeing themselves that way and run the non-profit the same way that a business would run. The foundations for both are similar so we'll help you understand how to run a nonprofit...

Like most things in life, our success rests on our relationships. Commerce in particular is so tightly tied to the ability to make and maintain business relationships that it's hard to imagine anyone ignoring it! Refuse to reach out and your business will not succeed....

Culture shock is the feeling of disorientation that arises when a person is immersed in a society with very different ways of interpreting reality and acting on those assumptions. When people ask, "How do I change my company's culture?" we don't offer simplistic...