Archive for the Business Success Category

Maximum Nonsense About Minimum Wages

Executives and business trade associations fighting against President Obama calling for an increase in the minimum wage are arguing against their own self interests. Organizational success is a function of many productive sums adding up to a greater whole, and the correlation between a properly compensated workforce that […]

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The Fundamentals of Start-Up Business Success – Part 2

Instead of looking to politicians in DC, business leaders must control their destiny. Part 1 in this series identified matters executives can take into their own hands. Part 2 features NFIB’s troubling survey. In Part 3, I will highlight strategic and tactical initiatives small, start-up and emerging […]

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Leading the Art of Positive Change Outweighs Its Science

I spent the day with an extremely bright IT professional capable of creating the type of needed change his company is depending on him to produce. Throughout the day he kept proclaiming “I don’t do politics”with equal doses of superiority, ferociousness and judgmental frustration. Perhaps not coincidentally, yesterday […]

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