The Right Incentives

By Patrick A. Genovese from American Business Owner Magazine published by GPS consulting—major small business consulting firm out of Buffalo Grove IL

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The use of incentives is often overlooked as an effective way to increase market share in a shrinking economy. Productivity-based, excess profit incentives can be designed with no upfront cost. Better [...]

4 Vital Interview Questions to Ask

By Jeff Haden, from Inc Magazine

Most candidates can hack your interview questions to tell you what you want to hear. But if you approach it right, not these.

Most job candidates feel interview questions can be decoded and hacked, letting them respond to those questions with “perfect” answers.

And they’re right, especially if you [...]

Small Business Management Consulting Company: Potential ways to choose the best one

After the recent economic turmoil of 2008, a lot of businesses, particularly small businesses, have experienced a period of low cash flow, where debts seem to exceed profits. Under the existing economic scenario, small businesses are incurring incredible losses. While some businesses succumb to the pressure triggered by debt, others survive and flourish through various [...]

5 Things Great Mentors Do

By| Jay Steinfeld  Reprinted from Inc. Magazine

Your employees can achieve greater things with your help than they can alone–if you give them a chance.

Mr. Miyagi and Daniel Larusso. Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot. Dadabhai Naoroji and Mahatma Gandhi. History (OK, and the box office) is full of examples of people who have accomplished [...]

How do you Forecast Your Cash Flow?

By David Evans CEO of EastSeat, LL and reprinted from Inc Magazine LINK

Cash Is King: 5 Simple Rules for Creating a Cash Flow Plan

Cash is paramount for running a business. Here are five easy rules for creating a positive cash flow plan for your company.  With Opening Day of Major League Baseball over, [...]

8 Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Bosses

This article is from Inc Magazine, authored by Geoffrey James  LINK

The best managers have a fundamentally different understanding of workplace, company, and team dynamics. See what they get right.

1. Business is an ecosystem, not a battlefield.

Average bosses see business as a conflict between companies, departments and groups. They build huge armies of [...]

The 5 Qualities of Remarkable Bosses

By Jeff Hayden and reprinted from Inc Magazine

Consistently do these five things and the results you want from your employees–and your business–will follow.Remarkable bosses aren’t great on paper. Great bosses are remarkable based on their actions.

Results are everything—but not the results you might think.

Consistently do these five things and everything else follows. [...]

MMOB Workshops to be offered by Metropolitan State College

The Fremont Group is working with the Center for Innovation at Metropolitan State College of Denver to offer their Minding My Own Business Workshops through their curriculum.    The workshops may be offered in their new building or on-line.  “We are very excited with the prospect of brining our workshops to the students of Metro State” [...]

10 items entrepreneurs must work on to bulletproof their business

Article by Patrick Burke printed in American Business Magazine published by Global Resources—a major small business management consulting firm.  LINK

Most startup businesses are little more than an “incorporated job”—a vehicle for the owners to earn a market-rate salary with the hope of future growth. Once a business can pay the owners a market-rate salary [...]

The Best Way to Fire an Employee

Reprinted from Inc Magazine (LINK)

By Jeff Hayden

These tips won’t make it any easier on the employee (or you) but they will make the process go as smoothly as it can. Here’s how to make a bad situation better—or at least as “better” as it can possibly be—when you have to fire an employee [...]