7 Forces
Why Are You Creating a B/S Plan?
A plan, business or strategic, is intended to be built on a solid foundation yet provide a view from the top. It cascades from top to bottom, continually flowing.
Read MoreQuality Systems Need to Become Your B.O.S.S.— Business Operating System Strategy™
Executives and managers often struggle with who is in charge. One of their battle fields is quality. Often executives do not see the value in quality systems, while managers more often do, but it is not guaranteed. Quality managers always do, but are unable to quantify the benefits in business-savvy terms. They meet resistance in…
Read MoreFeed Me!!!
Running a restaurant is hard work. Nothing can go wrong, right? We interviewed a successful franchise restaurant owner to explore the Business Accelerants™ 7-Forces and their inmpact.
Read MoreCelebrate!
Celebrating is as simple as saying “Good JOB!” or high fiving.
Read MoreDo Band-Aid® Your Brand
Wide ranging interview on brand as it relates to large, multi-national corporations as well as to solo entrepreneurs. Brand is much more than a name, fonts, and colors.
Read MoreBorn to Sell
When we are first born, we can do nothing for ourselves. Therefore, we are born with the innate need and capability to get others to do things for us. Parents go crazy, get super tired, pull their hair out trying to cater to and calm infants. Remember those days? Now, remember how happy and satisfied you were when you held that baby in your arms, staring down at it with love and affection? There’s the emotional connection the infant sales person was depending upon. It certainly is not logical. Is it?
Read MoreLot Size of 1
I was touring a factory earlier this month in the heartland of the USA. I saw stamping equipment, wire benders, plastic injection molding equipment, printed circuit board placement, and much more. I keyed in on the utilization rate of the equipment. I was born in the city of Detroit, Michigan and my family all worked…
Read MoreEthical Behavior Keeps You Standing Up—Avoiding the Pit Fall
As a volunteer for SCORE, each year I have to review ethics and culture materials and reaffirm my support for those ideals. I do the same for a professional organization I’ve belonged to for decades, the IEEE. Recently the Archbishop for Portland sent a note to Catholics in the Archdiocese of Portland after the report…
Read MoreValue and Growth
Springs, Fall 2018 Vol 57 No 4:https://issuu.com/springmanufacturersinstitute/docs/smi_fall_2018/36
Read MoreDon’t Build Walls—Don’t Hunker Down in Silos—Build Bridges Across the Gaps
For millennia people have been building walls to protect people inside and keep others out—to separate one set of people from another set of people—good versus bad. The Great Wall of China is one of the most famous, but not nearly the oldest. 7 Famous Border Walls It’s only natural for animals and humans to…
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