Small businesses range from a handful of employees up 500. The Small Business Administration defines a small business as 500 employees or less. Businesses change as they grow. What may have been a simple process with 20 or 30 employees becomes daunting at 300. Accordingly, when a small business grows the leadership must grow with [...]
Have you walked trade shows? What’s attracted you to a booth? Was it the booths appearance, the product, the staff, or all of the above? Have you ever entered a trade show booth to play a game? I've stopped at booths for some trade show fun, have you? Trade show booth games can be a [...]
The O’Malia’s Living vehicle graphic design is about branding. All you have to do is look at their website or the sign in front of their office, and the dots are connected. The van looks like O’Malia’s Living. It represents the organization, and whether parked at a customer’s home or business, it shouts O’Malia’s Living [...]
My wife and I traveled the Southwest United States for ten days in May. It was wonderful. We can't wait to do it again. We flew into Phoenix, rented a car, and followed our noses. Our noses took us to the Grand Canyon, and from there to Utah, and then New Mexico. We traversed from [...]
In the not too distant future, it could be that face-to-face meetings are a thing of the past or a least a rarity. Seminars, conferences, and presentations might all be digital— where people join the conversation by logging into an event, sitting around pseudo-tables or milling about in holographic virtual worlds. 50,000 years ago men [...]
Have you ever had a job you dreaded? One where you hated getting up in the morning? A job where you were angry or depressed your entire commute? When you were in that situation did you always deliver in the workplace? Did you go above and beyond? Or did you get by treading water while [...]
I’m not talking about that 5-second rule for dropped food, how does that work anyway? Does the dropped morsel resist dirt and germs for 5 seconds? I’m talking about how much time your fleet graphics have to make an impact on consumers, 5 seconds, and you may have only three seconds—sometimes less. Why is that? [...]
The Red Dog Bar and Grill in North Salem, IN was famous for its apple-wood grilled steaks. My mom and dad ate there in the 1960’s. My band performed there Halloween 2011. A fellow, who had a background in shipping, bought it. He faced multiple challenges, one of which was he was unprepared because he'd [...]
Thousands of businesses spend millions of dollars on wellness programs, but is it money well spent? Do wellness programs provide a return on the investment? To find the answer to this question one must first consider how the ROI of any wellness program should be measured. Combining Lifestyle and Disease Control in one Wellness Package [...]
I work with businesses as a consultant. One small, but growing company has retained me to work with twelve managers on leadership development. One of the managers worked with me twenty years ago. He’s the sales manager for this organization. Last week he asked me how, twenty years ago, I got so much out of [...]
