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Acknowledging the Great Work of Your Employees

One of the most important things you can do as the manager or business owner is to acknowledge the great work of your employees. A simple praise goes a long way! A recent article in Business on Main entitled, The Power of Praise in Business and How to do it Right, provided some best practices […]

Benefits of Strategic Data Analysis

As a company moves through the evolutionary stages of data analysis, the value to the company increases. If performed correctly, data-driven decisions can start to drive money to the bottom line.

As an example, let’s consider a company which sells a variety of products. Without data analysis, how do they know which products are the […]

Brainstorming and Crowdsourcing – Part II

Read Part I of this post, How to Get the Best Ideas from Your Team and Your Expanded Team.

Can you expect pattern-busting breakthroughs if your team is only three or four people? Probably not. You are very unlikely to have significant diversity with such a small number of people Brainstorming with a larger group, […]

How to Get The Best Ideas From Your Team AND Your Expanded Team Part I

People with different experiences and backgrounds see things differently. These include differences in age, gender, race, occupation, and anything else that makes us different from one another. Ben Franklin’s junto was made up of twelve individuals, and included three from the field of printing, a scrivener who loved poetry and natural history, a glazier who […]

Managing Your Logistics as You Grow Your Business

Logistics means many things – it might refer to how you get your products and services to your customer, or how you communicate with remote employees, or how you get your products developed in a timely manner to meet customer expectations. The challenge as we grow our businesses is how to manage logistics. In the […]