by Chris Reich | May 8, 2010 | Business
A week in the Bay Area…China and India are in a race of very rapid development.Europe is ripping at the seams trying to hold their EU together—the focus will be on survival of the EU. Greece, Spain….then?Which brings me to the U.S. and my week in the...
by Chris Reich | May 4, 2010 | Business
Improving a Hotel? Easy.You want to fill up during the week? You want business clients who won’t wreck the place? Stay for days? You want business clients who are quiet and pay well?Easy. So easy I don’t understand why the best (Marriott) only gets this...
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:...
