Material Insights

Stop focusing on the problems

Give opportunity a good long look. What are you seeing these days when you pause from the daily grind and gaze out the window? If you see an imaginably dazzling moment that’s beginning to appear from the remaining haze of the “great recession,” pat yourself on the back—you are among the very few who possess such promising insight. I contend that if you act on your instincts (at this particular ...
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Protecting “Our People” Assets in Times Like These

Three easy steps you can take right now. What’s new? We are all working harder so it’s so easy to forget how it might look from your employee’s perspective. Given the economy as it is has been, they understand the freeze on raises and bonuses, but from their line of site the empty offices, workstations, a few idle tools and perhaps some workmates gone missing–people are not only overburdened, t...
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The right perspective will change your mind. Business owners and managers are expected to be right all of the time. You have to have enough of the right product. You have to offer the product at the right price with the right finish. And, of course, you have to have it all in the right location at the right time. Am I right so far? The problem is this: by constantly holding your business up to s...
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