by Jeff Mendelsohn | Apr 28, 2012 | Financial, Image & Marketing
As a consumer sites like Groupon and Sweet Jack are awesome. About once a month I find a great deal. But as a business owner those sort of sites terrify me. I’ve read far too many stories about businesses putting out a deal then losing their business because the...
by Linda Fayerweather | Apr 23, 2012 | Business Improvement, Business Management
Sometimes a company like the non-profit Jeff described will come to Changing Lanes to help a company become a Lean company with Continuous Improvement. One of the first things addressed is the way problems and errors are handled. Getting to the root cause of a problem...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Apr 21, 2012 | Business Culture, Personal Improvement
A few years ago I was part of a web service project, it was volunteer weeknight work. The project was a web service that would help a lot of people. Which is what I love to do. At the start of one of the development meetings the head developer brought to our attention...
by Linda Fayerweather | Apr 16, 2012 | Business Culture, Business Management
The old picture of a donkey with a carrot held in front of him so he will keep moving forward on a never ending walk to reach the carrot doesn’t really work well with employees. Instead we want to blend management with encouragement. Management empowers us to...
by Tiffiny Fayerweather | Apr 16, 2012 | Business Improvement, Personal Improvement
I cannot count how many times I have sat behind my desk thinking “If I owned this place I would do things differently”. Whether or not I could run the business better if I did own it is not the point, it is the mere fact that I cared and wanted to make a...