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Know When To Fire Poor Performers
Business Advisor Larry Mandelberg offers a strategic way to help avoid the tension and negativity surrounding the termination of an employee.
Look Inside Before Going Outside For A Merger
When considering a merger, honestly evaluate your company’s strengths and weaknesses first. You should pair your company with another that will thrive because of your strengths.
When Two Rights Make A Wrong
Larry Mandelberg offers advice on leadership and dissects the issues often encountered with business referrals.
Office Culture Can Make Or Break Mergers
Less than 1 in 10 mergers are deemed successful by the people initiating them — a staggering number when you consider the cost. The No. 1 reason cited was a failure to consider culture when integrating two businesses.
Now Is The Time To Market Your Business
A down economy creates the perfect marketing opportunity for business. Reach out to your customers in a time when your competitors are cutting back on their marketing and take advantage of media outlets who are resulting to lowering their costs due to decreased demand.
Good Help Is Hard To Find, Retain, Replace
A how-to on retaining staff, one of the most important and costly aspects of your business!
Big-Business Tactics For Small-Business Problems
Moving your organization from an entrepreneurial firm toward a more controllable, predictable, professional organization can be a challenge. Manage your business strategically.
Decisions Based On Emotion Are Bad For Business
A successful family business is possible with clear boundaries and well defined systems and structure. Formalize and document your processes and hold family and non-family staff to the same expectations.
Plan Well Before Adding Second Branch
Branching out and opening a second franchise or storefront presents exciting opportunities and requires specific considerations to be successful. Before that grand opening, take on board business consultant Larry Mandelberg’s experience and advice.
Experienced Board Gives You A Leg Up
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.
Build A Bridge To Span The Economic Pit
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.
Talk On Touchy Topics Can Lead To Office Tension
How to avoid conflict, specifically petty drama, in the workplace is explored by business consultant and Author Larry Mandelberg.
There’s No ‘Usual’ In Business Today
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.
Calendar’s Daily Quotes Offer Wisdom
Business owners and Managers, reflect positively on the past year and look forward to what you can accomplish in 2012.
Prepare Today For Future Economic Recovery
Want to grow your business in the current economy? The first step is evaluating how your customers are spending differently right now.
Seek Input To Avoid Bad Decisions
As a manager or business owner, your ability to encourage information sharing is critical to avoid bad decisions. Contributing to bad decision making is a lack of knowledge and experience. Recognize that you have limitations and embrace input.
Big Change Is Necessary To Ensure Your Survival
Stagnant and ailing businesses need to revamp their business models and stop waiting for the slow economic recovery ahead of us all.
Social Media Is Here To Stay; It’s Time To Jump In
Keep your business relevant and marketable by taking advantage of social media!
Efficiency Is Key To Success In A Recession
The top steps to efficiency in your business are outlined by business consultant and author Larry Mandelberg.
It Is Time To Update Your Strategic Plan
Business strategy creates purpose, instills the sense of need, provides direction and focus, and clearly helps you know what’s important.