by Lea Strickland | Jun 20, 2016 | Business Articles, Business Management, C.O.R.E. Business System, Commercialization, Customer, Customer Relationships
Dishonest Clients After all these years in business, I am still amazed when I encounter a dishonest client. It is doubly confounding when the client is not only dishonest, but also inexperienced and unsophisticated in the intricacies of business. It is especially true...
by Lea Strickland | Jun 18, 2016 | Budgets and Financial Tools, Business Articles, Business Management, Business Ownership, Economy and Economics, Leadership, Results
A business danger signs may be ignored or unnoticed, much like a frog in a pot of water on a stove. Yes, I am talking about the the experiment with a frog and a pot of hot water. If you put the frog in the pot and the water is boiling, he hops out fast! But when you...
by Lea Strickland | Jun 14, 2016 | Business Articles, Business Management, Execution, Leadership, Marketing, Sales and Business Development, Operations, Resources, Results
One of my friends was telling me about a discussion she had with her eighteen-year-old son. They were talking literally about a glass of Dr. Pepper. “Is the glass half full or half empty?” she asked her son. He said he thought she just used the wrong glass. If she had...
by Lea Strickland | Jun 13, 2016 | Business Articles, Business Management
I have been witnessing a growing trend in many organizations. I call this trend “managing to avoid,” in which goals are set and decisions made simply to avoid failure. Instead of setting a goal that will challenge and stretch the organization to grow, a goal that is...
by Lea Strickland | Jun 6, 2016 | Business Articles, Economy and Economics, Faith Blog, Perspectives
Switzerland Attempts to Decouple Income and Work I am always surprised when life follows fiction (perhaps I shouldn’t be). In Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged1 the world stops working and things start falling apart. As the story unfolds, we learn that the governments of the...
by Lea Strickland | May 31, 2016 | Business Articles
Overtime Impact from Eligibility Rule Change and Increases in Minimum Wage: Labor Costs Rise The overtime impact from new eligibility rule and minimum wage increases are this year’s hot-button issue for small business relates to rising labor/wage costs. This is a...