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 Guest | Aug 14, 2023 | Cash Flow, General, Productivity, Strategy
In spite of soaring bankruptcies, the power to avoid them is readily available “Bankruptcy filings spiked this year, and most small businesses aren’t doing well.” Sue Canyon points to a grim reality but insists, “It doesn’t have to be this way.” Canyon’s experience,...
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...
