Increasing  PRODUCTION –         Managers must be concerned with tomorrow. They must not live in the past but must plan for the future – today!         All businesses should make an adequate profit and live within their budget.         Their success depends on the quality and the number of their products and services and their…

Beat the COMPETITION –         Hard-nosed competition is the best assurance of a healthy business. Appreciate them, they are your stimulus for change.         Aim to exceed your rivals in all facets of activity such as quality, price, speed, and servicing.         Competition is a good thing it will force you to do your best.…

Gain more CUSTOMERS – If you don’t take care of your customers someone else will.         It takes weeks to find a good customer – seconds to lose one.         Today businesses concentrate more on training employees to improve their performance,  rather than to train them to improve customer services.          It’s your customers who…

Your CAREER  – “What you  want to be is more important than what you are.”          There is nothing like a dream to help you plan your future.          Dream what you dare to dream. Go where you want to go. Be what you what to be.              New jobs go to those who…

INNOVATION – Innovation is the fuel for business survival.        Innovation thrives on encouragement and dies with routine, regulations, and bureaucracy.        New ideas rarely germinate with people who are scared of making mistakes.        With cooperative management, enthusiastic workers, and an environment for free-thinking and innovation, companies can survive and thrive. A Handful of…

Looking for WORK? –          This Job hunting blog is worthy of a repeat as job security no longer exists.          Are you looking for work?            Looking for a new job is not easy and it should be tackled logically and professionally.  You need both qualifications and work experience.          Contacts are important…

 Your Action PLAN –         Dream what you dare to dream. Go where you want to go. Be what you want to be.         If your goal or goals are realistic enough, and you are determined enough, you can achieve amazing results.         To do this you will need an action plan.         An action…

Improve Your ACTIVITY – Make a lifetime commitment to self-improvement by objectively and unemotionally evaluating all your actions. Keep asking yourself, “How could I have done better?”         Today’s business is all about performance, productivity, and accountability.          All activities should be evaluated and subjected to questioning about their costs and benefits.         People should…

MENTORING –                “If you cannot see where you are heading, ask someone who has been there.”         Mentors have played a major role in my life.         They have helped show me the way and have given me the confidence to do things I didn’t think I could do.  They have been especially helpful…

Build Better TEAMS –         It’s hard to operate these days without teams.         Today success or failure depends on whether people work together effectively in teams.         To succeed in business you need to be able to build effective teams.          Different tasks require different types of teams.         Give serious consideration to the…