management

Achieving sustainable business success requires a well-rounded and strategic approach. One proven method is the three-pronged approach, which focuses on assessment, implementation, and maintenance. By addressing these three critical phases, businesses can establish a solid foundation, execute effective strategies, and ensure long-term growth. 1. Assessment: Building a Strong Foundation The first step in the three-pronged […]

Encourage Candor Can your employees be completely honest with you? Most business owners assume the answer is a resounding yes. But are you sure? Unless you’ve actively cultivated an environment of full transparency and candor around your office, the real answer is likely to be something different. A closed-dialogue work environment can have serious ramifications. Encouraging Candor

Gravity Time Isaac Newton couldn’t have seen it coming, but gravity time is an increasingly important concept in business. Gravity time is about creating super focused moments of teamwork and collaboration as opposed to requiring that everyone on your team work in close physical proximity on a regular basis. Working from home is more popular

The Midwest Mindset For everyone who thinks the Midwest is simply a cluster of flyover states, take note: the Midwest mindset could be the secret to better business performance. What is the Midwest mindset? According to a recent feature in Entrepreneur, the  Midwest mindset is all about hard work, sweat equity, efficiency, and—above all—smart, deliberate growth. The feature’s

Ask Why Do you spend so much time finding out what is happening that you neglect to find out why? Ask Why To Stay On Top Of The Big Stuff As a business owner, it’s your job to stay on top of the big stuff. After all, business owners are often big-picture visionaries. And for practical purposes, you

Trust, but Verify We’ve written before about how small businesses are disproportionately vulnerable to fraud. It’s hard for a lot of business owners to believe. After all, the very nature of a small business means that you’re surrounded with a limited number of people with whom you probably have relatively close connections and lots of