by Chris Reich | May 4, 2010 | Business
A restaurant is one of the most difficult businesses to run. The hours are killer. The waste huge. The costs insane. The regulations stringent. It’s hard to find good employees. Harder to keep good employees.It’s common to see restaurants fold up. Too...
by Chris Reich | May 1, 2010 | Business
Yes, we need planning. But if you waste a lot time and resource forecasting…well, you’re wasteful.From Fed Chairman Bernanke: WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) – As a Federal Reserve governor in 2004, Ben Bernanke, now the U.S. central bank’s...
by Chris Reich | Apr 28, 2010 | Business
If your business or organization is experiencing the stress of too much too do and too few to do everything, it’s time for more meetings.It’s not time to hire a lot more people. The recovery is still fragile and you might not be seeing pre-collapse success...
by Chris Reich | Apr 27, 2010 | Business
Why do some people go out of their way to prevent success? This is a destructive pattern I see at many businesses and organizations. Fix something, improve something, build something and someone wants to take it apart. Why?There really is only one answer to this:...
by Chris Reich | Apr 26, 2010 | Business
99% of the time team problems can be attributed to one of two root causes: Lack of leadership or a bad apple in the bunch.I’ve addressed bad apples in the past. Document the problem, inform the malcontent that they are harming the organization, have zero...
