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As many of you know, I often talk about small business owners becoming CEO’s, so I was quite intrigued when I saw this article in last week’s Sunday New York Times Business Section (read full article here) focused on what it takes for a young person starting his or her career to eventually become […]
In March of 2016 earlier this year I had written about how “Startups Remain Believers Despite the Warning Signs (article here), so I was enheartened to see an update by Katie Benner in the NY Times, August 28, 2016 Technology section that talked about how start-ups in Silicon Valley are beginning to narrow their […]
Michael Gansl and Michael Korn provide precious insights on how business owners can make plans in order to attain their financial and personal goals through organization, making choices and increasing value. Organize: Manage and Systematize Make Choices: Be Protectionistic and Derministic Increase Value: Build Personal Wealth and Business Value
The other day I came across this article in Insights Stanford Business (Link here), and was quite intrigued by the title: “CEO: Refocus Your Ambitions”, and especially the subtitle: Why the CEO role can be a “stupid ambition”. Well, it certainly caught my interest, because the tag line of my business, Voice of […]
If you’re thinking of increasing the value of your business, I believe that first and foremost, you need to know what type of business you want to be. Do you want a lifestyle business or one that is poised for growth? In a lifestyle business, all the profits go into the business owner’s pockets. In […]
Step 1 – Systematize the business. Processes need to be recognized, procedures need to be written down in order for the business owner to move beyond his/her own thoughts, his/her two hands, and for outcomes to become predictable. Employees need to be trained, they need to be consulted for their ideas as well, and together […]
Just the other day, I gave a talk to my NetworkNetwork Group on Business Planning as a Strategy for Success. One of the topics I addressed was planning for one’s exit from the business. The NY Times must have heard about my talk because this article in the Personal Business section of the newspaper appeared […]
I am always fascinated about finding meaning in one’s work, since it is so much a part of who we are and what we do for so very long, and work is so critical to our well-being for almost all of our lifetime. In the Atlantic Monthly recently, I fell upon this article by Uri […]
Don’t worry, you are not alone! Tech Support rage is rampant. When I saw this article in the newspaper the other day, I actually laughed out loud remembering all too well being lost in tech support hell oh so many times!! And although I’m not usually a believer in conspiracy theories, I always suspected […]