by Jeff Mendelsohn | Oct 8, 2012 | Business Culture, Employee Management
While talking to a friend this past week, she was telling me about a co-worker that was very negative, rude, and in some ways would do things just to stop progress. Whether it is on purpose or not he causes a bad work environment. The problem is management...
by Linda Fayerweather | Oct 2, 2012 | Business Culture, Business Improvement, Planning for Business, Uncategorized
We, in business, use the term “Bus” often as an abbreviation for business and we have a habit of saying “threw them under the bus” as an euphemism for blaming someone for something that didn’t work. Thanks to Jim Collins, we also use the...
by Tiffiny Fayerweather | Sep 19, 2012 | Business Culture, Business Partnership, Employee Management, Uncategorized
Have you noticed lately when you have a complaint to a company the voice on the other end offers a cheap discount and ends with “Is there anything else I can do for you?” Since when will it be okay to give three free months of a service that does not have anything to...
by Tiffiny Fayerweather | Sep 12, 2012 | Business Culture, Business Management, Employee Management, Personal Improvement, Uncategorized
Recently, I have gone through several interviews with very different companies. Each company had different ways of achieving their success, so why did they ask the same interview questions? Canned questions are a big annoyance to me. The question that burns me to the...
by Linda Fayerweather | Sep 4, 2012 | Business Culture, Personal Improvement, Uncategorized
The first Labor Day holiday, created by the Central Labor Union of New York, was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882 and now many of us see this holiday as end the of summer. Celebrate today the 364 days you work and help make the world economy revolve. Yes, we...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Aug 27, 2012 | Business Culture, Business Improvement, Personal Improvement
I helped a business friend work on a web site for one of his clients. We were making changes to their membership service site, a small dynamic site. Something that would take six to eight months. At first the experience was a huge mess. There was a VP of a department,...