According to Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, 91 million data records affecting nearly 10 million U.S. citizens have been exposed due to security breaches since February 2005. Breaches occur from someone hacking into a database, a disgruntled employee stealing information, or sheer...
1. Do you actually need to extend credit to your customers? Is it necessary to offer credit in your business, or are you able to operate profitably by expecting to be paid in cash? 2. Will you accept checks? Most...
If you want to succeed and grow, you must achieve high standards in four essential categories. 1) You must create excellent products and services. 2) You need terrific delivery systems to keep tack and get the products to your customers...
For your consideration. 1 - Bring them back alive. Ask customers what they want and give it to them again and again. 2 - Systems, not smiles. Saying please and thank you doesn't insure you'll do the job right the...
Examine the life of any great leader and you will see him putting priorites into action. Every time Norman Schwarzkopf assumed a new command, he didn't just rely on his leadership intuition; he also reexamined the unit's priorities. When Lee...
The number one reason people don't do what you want them to do? They don't know what you want them to do!!! You might not believe this, but there are a bunch of people stumbling around out there who don't...
Tip of the hat to Sallie Lux of the law firm Brouse McDowell for the advice below. Just having a document retention policy is not good enough. It must be implemented and reviewed on a regular basis. In fact it...
Can a highly operations focused small service company (50 employees) move into a high organic growth orientation? Usually a high growth orientation means taking more risk, risk in new business proposals, risks in pricing for services, risks in the delivery...
It is that time of year when we need to start working toward meeting our annual tax form completion and implementing new tax changes in our 2007 business operations. With changes in Social Security/Medicare, 401K's, Annual Qualified Plans, Business Deductions...
In 2004, 800 megabytes of new information was created for each man, woman, and child on the earth -- with 92% of it stored on magnetic media, primarily hard drives. Businesses today use more than 500 million desktop computers that...
