Here I was again, wasting a perfectly good Saturday afternoon. It was my own fault. Influenced by my desire for money and wanting to enter the workforce before I was sixteen. I had been offered a job to help one of my neighbors clean and prepare his rental properties for new tenants every Saturday. The…
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Every business in the World needs to understand these fundamental truths to making your business run better.
Balanced Scorecard – Where have I been?
I can’t believe I haven’t run across this before. I feel like an idiot having been unaware of this for so long. Art Schneiderman coined the term and developed the concept in 1987 However it was popularized by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in a Harvard Business Review article in 1992, see the wikipedia article…
Idiots and Fools
Managers that implement these sorts of programs without finding out one simple thing are idiots and fools. What is that one simple thing? It’s really just one question. “What do you want?” Then the manager, owner, fool in charge ask themselves what do I want? To stop being the idiot and the fool you realize;…
Do you eat what you kill? or do you beg for your supper?
Sometimes I wish I was a cave man. I would be in shape, strong and confident. I would constantly be hungry and that in turn would make me efficient. I am the happy, fat and lazy beggar, that sits and wait for the next handout. I read an article today that reminded me about this…
Fear is keeping you poor
Fear keeps most people poor. Sadly it’s the companies that fear putting a variable pay system, also know as pay for performance in place. Variable pay is where companies pay you more if you work hard and produce more. Many sales professionals are paid this way. All doctors and dentists are paid this way. They…