Feeding the Hog! In my last post I mentioned that I was going to tell about a decrease in productivity and the story of “Feeding the Hog” which I heard from the Esteemed Dan Mollaun V.P. of Human Resources with Roto Rooter. The story goes like this, once upon a time there was a large sawmill that turned logs into … Read More
Increase Productivity Now!
Increase Productivity Now! The Hawthorne Effect’s well-documented phenomenon that affects many research experiments in social sciences. It is the process where human subjects of an experiment change their behavior, simply because they are being studied. This is one of the hardest inbuilt biases to eliminate or factor into the design. When I was hired to manage a turnaround of … Read More
Staying In Business Blog
Staying In Business Blog is about Staying in business and surviving by taking advantange of idea’s and techniques learned over a 30 plus year span in management. Both Public and Privately owned businesses. Experience the true stories and examples in this Staying In Business Blog thru some of the school of hard knocks lessons as observed by the author and hopefully you … Read More
PEO? What is a Professional Employer Organization?
PEO’s function as Professional Trusted Advisors exactly like your Attorney, CPA, and Insurance Agent! PEO’s like your other Trusted Advisors provide professional expertise, advice, and indemnify you against exposure to risk from legal violations, accident damages, and negligence damages. The truth is that there is more exposure from having Employee’s than from any other business activity. Employers are more aware … Read More
End of February Sales Decline! Guess why?
Courtesy of Drugwatch.com It is your responsibility to know the times and the seasons of your company’s sales cycle. Especially when it has a seasonal sales decline. You alone are responsible for knowing when business is going to be good when it’s not going to be good, then how many employees to put on staff for the day or not to. … Read More
Would your company have hired Young Mr. Lincoln???
Who is doing the hiring around here? the most powerful person in your company that’s who! And it’s probably not you!!!! This lesson really pertains more to small business that do not have a full time Professional Human Resource Manager. Now let me get clear on this when I say do the hiring I should Abraham Lincoln No College Degree! specify the fact … Read More
“Check Your Drawers, and Other Timely Advice for Managers”
THIS POST IS THE TITLE CHAPTER IN MY BOOK “Check Your Drawers, and Other Timely Advice For Managers” It is over 70 chapters of lessons like this one. All true life personal experiences and I tried to inject a humorous approach to learning from my experiences as a Manager moving up through the ranks, so here it is! Wheweeee! “Check Your Drawers” What’s that? … Read More
Paint the Picture
When I was managing a chain of automotive shops one of the things that I became aware of was that I constantly had to demonstrate to the manager that his performance was not up to our standards. Over time I decided that what we really needed was a way to demonstrate clearly our standards. For example what we thought was a clean … Read More
Pride goes before a fall !!!
I ran into a friend from back in my High School days. He had opened a business selling Motorcycles many years ago. We worked together at a Gas Station during highschool. His father owned the local fast food franchise some forty years ago. This friend and I began talking and he told me he had just shut down his business. After over twenty … Read More
Sometimes Top Performers Are Theives
I read onetime somewhere that many child molesters are over achievers in their field. The reason behind this is because when someone accuses them it won’t be believed since they are so respected and looked up to in the community. You can have a similar thing going on in your company. Once I replaced a manager who was considered a … Read More