Publications

May 18, 2017

Weekly Report 17-21

‘REVERSE DELEGATION’ IS AMONG THE GREATEST NEMESIS OF MANAGEMENT EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS. It involves ‘taking back’ a delegated assignment when employees are stuck, or redoing it yourself when not up to your expectations. These actions not only waste your own time (albeit an often immediate result), but preclude the employee’s opportunity to learn and sends... Continue
May 11, 2017

Weekly Report 17-20

IDENTITY THEFT IS GROWING MASSIVELY by “hackers and cyber-thieves who are hell-bent on penetrating and staling your financial or personal records in an effort to profit from that data… and the truth is that it’s highly unlikely that anyone, whether business or person, can thwart such attacks – which are designed & tested to poke... Continue
May 5, 2017

Weekly Report 17-19

REALISTIC LONG-TERM PLANNING BEGINS WITH ‘GOAL SETTING’ based on three critical factors: (1) Specificity; (2) Reality-based achievability; and (3) Measurability – which means “defining what constitutes completion or achievement (i.e. assessment measures like quantity, quality, money spent or saved), and establishing target dates for both key steps along the way and end-result.” DCG can help.... Continue
April 27, 2017

Weekly Report 17-18

LONG-TERM PLANNING IS A CRITICAL FACTOR NEGLECTED BY MANY BUSINESS OWNERS, a process of: (1) Developing a time-targeted ‘Exit’ program, including Estate Planning aspects of ownership, company & family continuity, and positioning for optimal taxation impacts; then (2) Developing a ‘Succession’ Plan for the business by assessing existing employees as the future leaders, with a... Continue
April 20, 2017

Weekly Report 17-17

MOST YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS MAKE A MAJOR MISTAKE WHEN GETTING STARTED “by tending to chase ideas based largely on past successes of other popular entrepreneurs and by focusing on ‘making money,’ rather than pursuing their own personal passion… What almost everyone finds at the end is that creating a massively successful business is hard, and if... Continue