From Brian Tracy’s upcoming book Full Engagement! Inspire, Motivate, and Bring Out the Best in Your People, Tracy opens managers’ minds to the amazing power and bottom-line payoff of practicing the Golden Rule in all of their actions in the workplace and developing clear values, vision, mission, purpose, and goals.
Managing a Business
Guidelines for Allocating Scarce Resources
Scarce resources are a fact of business life. In the wake of devastating budget cuts, furloughs, and/or layoffs, however, “normal” levels of scarcity have been exacerbated. The question for many organizations has become, “How do we move forward from here most effectively?”
How to Use Freelancers for Your Small Business
As a small business every pound has to be accounted for and it can be a difficult balancing act juggling the need for a particular skill or service without incurring the cost of hiring an extra staff member. A great way around the problem is to hire a freelancer or contractor to tackle specialist areas such as bookkeeping, marketing, IT, HR and office admin.
How to Allocate Scarce Resources When You Haven’t Planned Ahead
Although advance planning for resource allocation is the ideal scenario, you may find your business caught short by the severe constraints imposed by the economic downturn. What are the alternatives when your business is operating in crisis mode and there is no Plan A?
Making your Business Prosper … Even in a Bad Economy
When the economy turns bad, an entrepreneur is faced with the challenge of closing the doors or selling the business. Learn steps to save your business.
Who Protects Your Greatest Vulnerability?
Just like a professional quarterback, you are incredibly valuable. You are valuable to your company, your colleagues, your staff, your family, your friends, your community, and just as important, to yourself. Like a quarterback, you have a blind side that must be protected at all costs.
Top 10 Tips for Managing Down
As your business grows, you will soon be managing people. The skills, however, in managing employees and starting a business are often different. Here are 10 tips to help you become the type of manager that everyone wants to work with.
Five Reasons Why Your Business May Not Be Growing
Business leaders complain all the time that nothing seems to have changed in their organizations, despite their best efforts to make things happen. Yet they continue to do the same things and receive the same results. Well, it’s no wonder why nothing has changed!
The Importance of Reading and Understanding Contracts
One of the common mistakes of small business entrepreneurs is entering into contracts and agreements without thoroughly understanding the terms of the agreement. Learn how a small business owner learned this lesson the hard way
Significant Business Problem: Lousy Implementation of Strategy
When 20 percent of the most powerful business leaders in The United States lose their jobs, there is a problem! Top business consultants have argued for business to better strategize, align, and implement.