All Entries in the "Leadership" Category
6 Things that Growing Small Businesses Do Right
What sets growing businesses apart from their small biz brothers and sisters whose revenues are flat or falling? The Guardian Life Small Business Research Institute wanted to find out so it commissioned a study to compare what owners of small firms with rising 2011 revenues did differently than their counterparts at businesses with flat or [...]
A Foolproof Framework for Hiring Perfect People
Here’s a motto every small business should live buy: Hasty hiring brings frequent firing. For most business owners, the hiring “process” includes posting a job opening, sorting resumes and hiring the first person who makes a god impression. But the consequences of poor choices can be severe. If you keep an unproductive person on, you’re [...]
How to Create a Winning Business Culture
When a once-growing business stumbles, the cause is sometimes an overlooked culprit: the company culture. Many good businesses with solid ideas, a great market and talented people start to lose their grip on growth after failing to win victories that seemed within grasp. Slowly, the “win or die trying” mentality gives way to deciding how [...]
