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 Linda Fayerweather | Sep 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
John Warrillow, author of Built To Sell, has posted the first details of his survey on what business owners expect when they sell their business. 67% of business owners expect to be out of the business in 12 months or less YET, the majority of sales of businesses are...
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 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
In 1740, Lord Chesterfield offered the following advice: “There is time enough for everything in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once, but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.” Repeatedly, science...
by Tiffiny Fayerweather | Sep 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
In the new day of internet, email, IM’s and texting businesses have gone the way of electronic communication. Jump onto one of your utility websites and you can bet at least one of them have the “customer service” button that leads to an online chat. This is good,...
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