Business Operations

The Eclipse is Over– actually, the eclipse lasted about 2 minutes, depending upon where you were viewing it from.  The buzz that the eclipse has generated is fantastic! What are you doing [...]

During the last month, the Rotary Club of Fort Worth has hosted a foreign exchange student from Germany.  This student, in his early 20’s, has had the opportunity start early and stay late. [...]

Many business owners, once they have a successful operation think about opening a second location.  It could be in the same town, same state or a different town or different state.  Often times, [...]

A recent truck-trailer accident left the principal of the firm unable to work.  Although not permanently injured, the individual was hurt to the point where he spent several weeks in [...]

  The toxic employee requires expenditures of both time and money. But you can only spend so much before you need to make that difficult leadership decision. After you’ve had serious talk, [...]

As a manager or supervisor, you must face the toxic employee matter directly and confidently.  This is not a time to pretend the problem doesn’t exist, though certainly that would be most [...]

One of our consultants talked with a refrigerator repairman the other day.    The repairman is an independent businessman who works throughout the United States repairing industrial refrigeration [...]

A neat workspace that has “everything in its place” is one where it is comfortable (even fun) to work. But that’s not all: such an environment also reduces stress and excess mental pressure. If [...]

Being forced to reduce staff is unpleasant no matter when it must be done.  However, the implementation, adaptation and use of lean guidelines allows a business to operate more efficiently and [...]

Reviewing numbers every quarter, the manufacturing manager knew and recognized that business was slow.  After all, he worked in sales three days a week, travelling all over the East Coast [...]