Parkinson’s Law Says Work, Money, and Processes Expand to Fill the Space We Give Them. Left Unchecked, It Creates Drag. However, With the Right Constraints, It Creates Focus.
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A Corporate Management Structure Represents the Way That a Company with Shareholders Needs to Be Organized. A Corporate Structure Represents A 3-Level Hierarchy Composed of Shareholders, A Board of Directors, And Corporate Officers.
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Most business cultures follow a rather predictable business evolution as they progress and grow. There are four stages that a business must go through from birth to death.
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There is a mismatch between what science knows about motivation and what the business does. Many businesses continue to use techniques designed for the industrial era workers that no longer work.
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Centralized management in an LLC is where a professional manager, who is not a member/owner makes most of the decisions in a company.
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To Prosper in Business, You Need A Foundation of Solid Kenntnis Knowledge Through Firsthand Real-World Business Experiences Before You Dive in And Start Your Business.
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Inside every small business owner, there are 3 personas, each competing for time as the leader. The three personas are the technical person (work-focused), the President (inwardly-focused), and the Chief Executive Officer or CEO (outwardly focused). To succeed, a business must possess all three personas.
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Abraham Maslow theorized that people are motivated by five types of needs. How an employer meets these needs changes with each level and contributes toward employee job satisfaction resulting in lower turnover and higher employee retention.
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Do you know what it costs when you make a bad hire? Do you know what it costs if one of your star employees leaves you to work for a competitor?
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For companies that have to compete for skilled talent, the world is getting harder every day. This is based not only on economic expansion but also on the demographics of the workforce.
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Leadership and management are both essential elements of business success. Leadership is closely aligned with the role of a CEO and Management to the role of the President. Even though there is a difference between leadership and management most people use them interchangeably which is incorrect.
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My 89-year-old mother lives in an independent living facility that has several businesses connected to them. They have a bank, a maid service, and even a beauty parlor as my mom calls it. During a recent visit, my mom was telling me about how her hairdresser was let go because she was in such high
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One has to ask “Are corporations past their prime?” Corporations came into being to allow multiple investors to invest a portion of their capital across several risky, but potentially highly profitable endeavors. Corporations Come Into Existence When sailing ships were constructed to carry on world trading, it was a highly lucrative proposition but was fraught
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Many Believe Bigger Boards Are Better, but Small, Focused Boards Often Provide Better Oversight and Real Leadership. Discover Why Less Can Truly Be More.
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When a business advances from stage 3 to stage 4, the business transformation is nearly complete. During stage 4, company decay can often begin to set in as the administration of the business is placed in the hands of a “guardian.” The primary motives of the business guardian are comfort and security. Unity towards a purpose
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For a business to advance from stage 2 to stage 3, the business undergoes a substantial shift from being on the offensive and growth-oriented to becoming more defensive and focused on process improvement through business segmentation. The business segmentation associated with stage 3 sets up the business for shared leadership and management by creating multiple
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For a business to advance from stage 1 to stage 2, the business requires that the role of the Oracle be supported or replaced by a business development person. I refer to this new leader as the “General.” In our McDonald’s example from a previous post, it was a guy by the name of Ray
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Stage 1 encompasses the pre-start-up and early start-up period of a business. A company is started by a founder who is essentially the idea person behind the business. I refer to this person as the “oracle. In classical antiquity, an Oracle is a person who can see and predict the future. The Oracle of a
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To Break Silos and Drive Innovation, Nokia’s Leadership Team Challenged Norms by Swapping Roles, Holding Meetings in Wild Places, and Embracing Calculated Chaos.
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Hearing your name has a profound impact on the brain. Research published in Cerebral Cortex shows that hearing your name activates your cortico-subcortical auditory attention network, a complex way of saying it grabs your focus whether you’re paying attention or not. Similarly, studies in Brain Research demonstrate that hearing your name sparks brain regions tied
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How can you get employees to think like owners? Learn how compensation structure, company culture, and incentives can shape behavior that boosts long-term success.
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