by Sue | Feb 15, 2024 | Employees, General, Strategy, Team Building
In an earlier article about reducing conflict in the workplace, I introduced you to a concept developed by Dr. Morris Massey in his study of the interactions between people in the workplace. Another of his concepts that I find extremely useful for getting employees to...
by Sue | Feb 4, 2024 | Cost Reduction, General, Productivity, Strategy
Americans are famous for having something called “the pioneering spirit”. We take a great deal of pleasure in inventing things. And that’s a good thing, even though most of us are not Eli Whitney … or Thomas Edison. Still, a lot of us seem to get a great deal of...
by Sue | Jan 23, 2024 | Cost Reduction, General, Productivity, Strategy
I’ve recently been asked to help two clients with their project management software. One client is a land developer, and the other runs a manufacturing shop. These two applications are completely different in their information delivery requirements to management. To...
by Sue | Aug 20, 2023 | Cost Reduction, General, Strategy
I often find myself in a public setting in the company of an unfamiliar business owner. Whenever I get these opportunities, I ask, “What is the one business question you struggle with the most?” I recently had the pleasure of sitting on a flight for two hours next to...
by Sue | Aug 6, 2023 | General, Strategy
You may be asking yourself how I might be different from all the other business “fixers” out there. That’s a very good question. One of my favorite movies is “Moneyball”. It’s about a geeky Yale graduate in economics who reads a paper by Bill James, a guy who...
