In talking to Business Owners, how many times have you heard this phrase? “It’s lonely at the top.” Having been around small, medium sized family and closely held businesses our whole business careers spanning almost 50 years – we hear it constantly. It is really...
Articles & Insights - Strategy
Hope is not a strategy!
By Barry Worth, Partner These are hard times for everyone. I’m sure everyone is on overload with all the articles, emails and other communications regarding COVID-19. When I wrote my last article this past summer that appeared in our firm’s newsletter and posted on...
Managing In Uncertain Times
By: Barry Worth, Partner Back in the early 1990’s I wrote an article about the same topic. Of course, it was a different time with different issues; however, the solutions are still the same. Therefore, I thought it would be a good thing to recycle the topic. At the...
Improve Results by Raising the Bar – You don’t have to be Charles Dickens to have great expectations
How do leaders increase results without spending a dime? Raise the bar and set higher expectations! Sound easy? It is. Raising expectations is not about increasing workload, it is about setting higher expectations to increase results. Where do leaders begin? ...
10 Time Management Strategies for Better Productivity
Each of us has only 24 hours in a day– so how do the most successful entrepreneurs manage to get so much more out of their days? The key is knowing how to manage your time and prioritize. Here are 10 tips to help you improve your own time management and have more...
Intelligent Risk Management – Are you ready for what’s around the curve?
By: Glen Justis, Senior Partner and Doug Menendez, Partner All leaders of commercial enterprises know that business involves risk. In fact, the definition of an entrepreneur is “one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise.”[1] At...