We were running, once again, 5 hours after the deadline. I’d already been at work for twelve hours and people were leaving before the work was finished. I remember feeling miserable. I can’t remember if it was despair, depression or fatigue. I think despair was probably the best explanation. I’d been doing this for over…
Category: Owner Thinking
We will discuss how to motivational pay can make your company more money, be more efficient and help keep your employees loyal.
This article is close, but it’s wrong
I’m not sure how I ended up on the inc.com website today? I guess it really doesn’t matter. The article had a great title “The 20 Most Powerful Words in Business” I’ll save you the time discovering what the misguided statement is “When working in a team or group environment, I will place the interests…
Wasting A Perfectly Good Saturday Afternoon
Here I was again, wasting a perfectly good Saturday afternoon. It was my own fault. Influenced by my desire for money and wanting to enter the workforce before I was sixteen. I had been offered a job to help one of my neighbors clean and prepare his rental properties for new tenants every Saturday. The…
Balanced Scorecard – Where have I been?
I can’t believe I haven’t run across this before. I feel like an idiot having been unaware of this for so long. Art Schneiderman coined the term and developed the concept in 1987 However it was popularized by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in a Harvard Business Review article in 1992, see the wikipedia article…
Idiots and Fools
Managers that implement these sorts of programs without finding out one simple thing are idiots and fools. What is that one simple thing? It’s really just one question. “What do you want?” Then the manager, owner, fool in charge ask themselves what do I want? To stop being the idiot and the fool you realize;…