The two things that set any business apart from another similar business are staff and input from advisers. A board makes your organization accountable to an external group of knowledgeable businesspeople and will drive you to make better business decisions.
Today’s economy has given small business owners and managers a new reality: the loss of target clients and the need to reassess their business models to find new ones. It is either reassess and float or keep business as usual and drown.
How to avoid conflict, specifically petty drama, in the workplace is explored by business consultant and Author Larry Mandelberg.
In our current economy, our customers are buying differently. They are also generally responding to marketing in entirely new ways. Evaluate your business model and processes to take these fundamental changes into account.
Business owners and Managers, reflect positively on the past year and look forward to what you can accomplish in 2012.