Publications
March 21, 2015
Weekly Report 15-11
AN EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROCESS IS CRITICAL to employee motivation, development and retention. But most businesses utilize archaic processes which can produce the exact opposite results, by: (1) Making the process an intimidating one-way criticism “on the past and who’s to blame… versus the future and what needs to happen”; (2) Claiming to be objective... Continue
March 21, 2015
Weekly Report 15–10
SMALL BUSINESSES ARE “ENTICING TARGETS FOR HACKERS… who presume – often correctly – that controls are not as strong.” The absolutely critical factors in protecting data, after reasonable configuration of firewalls & anti-virus software, are to: (1) Establish a culture of security that includes training everyone to “understand the dangers of visiting unsafe websites, what... Continue
March 21, 2015
Weekly Report 15.10
SMALL BUSINESSES ARE “ENTICING TARGETS FOR HACKERS… who presume – often correctly – that controls are not as strong.” The absolutely critical factors in protecting data, after reasonable configuration of firewalls & anti-virus software, are to: (1) Establish a culture of security that includes training everyone to “understand the dangers of visiting unsafe websites, what... Continue
March 2, 2015
PARTNERSHIP CONFLICTS INCREASE AS FIRMS GROW and partners are added, founders are compelled to not only give up control but acknowledge the criticality of buy-in, decision-making becomes more complex and communication becomes more difficult. Conflicts inevitably arise over time as partners grow in different directions, priorities re-align, and almost always eventually over how to allocate... Continue
February 21, 2015