by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Budgets and Financial Tools, Business Articles, Business Management, Human Resources, Leadership, Non-Profit, Perspectives, Small Business, Start-up
You may not recognize the phenomena by name, but many have experienced it. The coffee pot syndrome (CPS) is the first signal that a business has performance issues. CPS occurs when a business isn’t achieving profitability objectives and starts looking for ways...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Customer Relationships, Leadership, Perspectives
No matter how “together” we are as adults and business people, whether or not we are mature and responsible “role models”, events trigger emotions, both good and bad – disappointment, anger, confusion, frustration, resentment, to name a few. Those emotions cloud our...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Management, Leadership, Perspectives
The universe and the world and every creation seem to have a rhythm. Things just seem to follow a natural order. For many of us, that order we believe comes from God; others believe differently. Whatever your belief, when you look at life and can provide structure,...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Budgets and Financial Tools, Business Articles, Business Growth, Business Management, Entrepreneur, Marketing, Sales and Business Development, Perspectives, Resources, Small Business, Start-up, Strategy
For businesses of all sizes, the credit and banking industry issues of the last decade have raised questions of how to build and sustain organizations with less dependence on external sources of capital (debt and equity) and more from internal resources, such as funds...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Perspectives
One of the toughest lessons and behaviors to modify is to avoid comparing yourself to others. Look around and see people who are extremely visible and seemingly successful, yet you are treading water. See people who have all the trappings of wealth: fancy, new cars;...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Ownership, Perspectives, Small Business
The only thing we truly have choices about and control of is our reactions (to people, events). While it is often challenging or nearly impossible to “be reasonable” in our reactions to things that happen and things people do, channeling the energy we lose...
