Business Management - Productivity/Process Improvement

Discipline for Your Wildly Important Goals
September 16, 2013

How much of your MIS (Management Information System) have you implemented in your business? This is your Estimating, Job Tracking, Finished Goods, Floor Data Collection, etc., software. If you are like most businesses you implemented less than 20 percent of the software's capabilities.

Scheduling: A Tale of Two Businesses
September 3, 2013

For those of you who have asked for more detail about systemizing your company—particularly your SCHEDULING system—HERE IT IS! Hope you “wing and a prayer” people will lean in!

New Wine for New Times
August 12, 2013

Insisting that certain people adopt a "new and better way" of doing something can actually make a situation worse. To cure your business, heed advice from a first century physician named Luke, about the consequences of pouring NEW wine into OLD wineskins.

Do THIS, Then You Can Do THAT
July 29, 2013

Folks, there is a way to do the THAT's in life and business, which owners and managers should do. However, I'm a witness to THIS fact—you will never get to all the THAT's unless you do THIS! Got it? Good!

Exceptions AS the RULE
July 15, 2013

Recently I was visiting a client, in order to find the reason why they were having some difficulty implementing and keeping a few simple systems up and running.