Employee Coordination

Running a company is virtually like the inner working pieces of a good-sized machine. There are cogs, wheels and all sorts of things that spin, move or turn, while pistons crank up and down, with the simultaneous distribution of oil to keep the parts from grinding...

Creating a Paper Trail Supports Employee Discipline and Discharge

Firing an employee who does not expect it is often the impetus for that employee filing a discrimination lawsuit against his or her former employer. When the employee does not see it coming, he or she can think the termination is discriminatory. Clear and blunt...

Letting Experts Help You With Your Business

Very often entrepreneurs try to go it on their own—after all, the business was their idea and they have the know-how necessary to delivery their product or service. However, letting experts help you with areas where they have the necessary know-how can save you time,...

You Wouldn’t Drive Through A Red Light—Would You?

Chances are you stop at red lights, signal before turning and know when to yield. Motor vehicle laws are generally clear and specific and we all need to pass a test to get our drivers’ license. Before you hired your first employee, however, nobody tested you on the...

Letting Professionals Help You With Your Business

Very often entrepreneurs try to go it on their own—after all, the business was their idea and they have the know-how necessary to deliver their product or service. However, letting professionals help you with areas where they have the necessary know-how can save you...

Have You Hired the Right Person?

You’ve got a great product or service to sell. You’ve identified your target audience and are creating a market niche for yourself. But, you can’t do everything yourself, so you begin to hire employees to help you. Following that stage, many entrepreneurs find...

At-Will Employment

I recently mentioned to a colleague that I wished clients would call me before they fired the pregnant employee. No disrespect intended to pregnant ladies here (having been one myself—twice). However, one of my goals in life seems to be to get employers to understand...

Employee Limbo

“To have a boom, you have to keep your nose clean legally…” —L. Ron Hubbard1 _______________________ Mr. Hubbard defined a “cycle of action” in this way: “Control may be subdivided into three separate parts. These parts are: “START-CHANGE-and-STOP....

Create a Paper Trail

“To have a boom, you have to keep your nose clean legally…”1 —L. Ron Hubbard Firing an employee who does not expect it is often the impetus for that employee filing a discrimination lawsuit against his or her former employer. When the employee does not see it coming,...

Using Gender-Inclusive Language at the Workplace

“To have a boom, you have to keep your nose clean legally…”1 —L. Ron HubbardWe live and work in a diversely populated world. With no harm intended, people often inadvertently include sexist language in their writing and speech (i.e., language that tends to evoke a...

Quote of the day

“People who explain how wrong it is all going and who have reasons why and WHO AREN’T PUTTING IT RIGHT are the real crazy people in the universe. The only ones crazier than they are, are the ones who are quite happy to have everything fail and go wrong with no protest from them.

“And the only ones even worse are those who work endlessly to make things go wrong and prevent anything from going right and oppose all efforts instinctively.

“Fortunately there are a few around who DO make things go right in spite of everything and anyone.”

—L. Ron Hubbard

THE SUPREME TEST

Overcome the “Invisible” Revenue Killer

Overcome the “Invisible” Revenue Killer

Prosperity can be achieved by many means: hard work, smart money management or killer advertising. The list goes on. But there’s one prosperity-producing subject that rarely gets enough press. And that’s the subject of . . . Speed. How fast your company ships...

How a Bad Idea Sprung Success That is Helping to Save the Ocean

How a Bad Idea Sprung Success That is Helping to Save the Ocean

What a company stands for may be as important as the products or services they sell. This is the story of three young men who utilized a special aspect of public relations to turn a failed idea into a multi-million-dollar business in a few short years. Back in 2013,...

Business Advice from a Knockout Artist

Business Advice from a Knockout Artist

In the fifties, George Foreman grew up in the slums of Houston, Texas. He dropped out of school in the ninth grade and ran with street gangs. A life of crime was written in the stars. Today, George is worth $300 million. What went right?  George Foreman is a raging...

Old Spice—This Ship Still Sails the Ocean

Old Spice—This Ship Still Sails the Ocean

Old Spice, the brand once associated with sea captains and early Americana, completely rebranded their products in 2008 and have been successfully expanding their line ever since. How they reinvented the brand and continue to appeal to the younger generation is a...

The Sweet Taste of Success: The Rise of Halo Top

The Sweet Taste of Success: The Rise of Halo Top

A little ice-cream company went from ten employees to nearly $50 million in revenue and changed an industry in the process. Fundamental to their growth: understanding their core “public.” The history of public relations (PR) and marketing is strewn with monumental...

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