Start Lean, Stay Lean: 4 Ways to Shape Up Your Operation
As a startup founder, you have a lot of dreams to accomplish on a limited budget. One way to make sure you accomplish your goals is by focusing on efficiency right away. You can start...
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Follow These Process Management Trends for a More Streamlined Business
One of the best things you can do for your business is adopt new process management trends that will streamline your workflow. After all, as an entrepreneur, you have countless responsibilities on your plate. The right...
7 Business Influencers to Follow on Social Media in 2020
Launching a successful startup takes a lot of work, and learning how to navigate the waters of entrepreneurship can be difficult — especially if it's your first business. As such, it can be wise for aspiring...
5 ROI-Boosting Tips to Improve Your Startup’s Efficiency in 2020
“Move fast and break things” is one of the most famous Silicon Valley axioms. Made popular by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, the saying became a mantra for the way an entire startup culture operated. That’s changing, though,...
Status Quo Bias: The Dangers of Letting It Run Your Business
Whatever your current state of affairs are, they serve as a reference point — a gauge to measure the past and future. How else would we make sense of time? Our brains draw comparisons and...
This Christmas Don’t Get Snowed Under With Work: Prioritize and Delegate
Prioritize and Delegate: 'Tis the season! Sometimes it's difficult to comprehend that there is only twenty-four hours in a day. When we feel time is blustering, we often forget that we have no more hours...
Measuring the Body
Here’s an excerpt from Sam Carpenter’s book Work The System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less... Eight years ago, in the depths of my workplace chaos, I was also dealing with a...
Gone Missing
Several years ago we had our house remodeled. Immediately after, we “flipped” another house. In both cases, numerous subcontractors, both experienced and inexperienced, did the work. Linda was the interior designer. I was the general...
The Tip System
Here is an evaluation system, albeit waggish. It’s about tipping in restaurants, and I’ll preface things by saying I don’t believe a tip is a diner’s obligation. It’s a tip—something extra that one earns if...
The Cardiovascular Equipment Sign-Up System
Here’s a remove-the-system-altogether scenario. It’s the ultimate in simplifying things. My staff and I take delight in chucking unnecessary Centratel protocols. System-elimination is great to see in personal life, too. The cardio room at the...
Focus on the System, Not the Product
It seems logical the manager’s total efforts should be focused on the product or service itself; that all energy be directed to the work that must be done, the customers who must be found, and...
Know your mechanical prime time
Most people have jobs, and as of this writing, there is not a general revolt against the concept. In any society, it is a revered position - one that carries a certain “it’s a good...
Invaluable tools & help for small business
As entrepreneurs we need to do everything as efficiently as possible. It actually truly makes my day when I discover a tool that makes me more effective. This afternoon my teammate Chuck Fuller passed along...