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Profit and Loss Articles. Use Your People’s Mistakes as a Training Opportunity. To get the most from attrition, use carcass management. Even a blind pig finds a truffle once in a while. Only hire relatives if they are also absolutes. Lifetime Value of a Customer. The Sales Incentive Compensation Trap. What to Do if You Lose a Key Customer. One of the most easily identifiable risk factors facing any company is the loss of a major customer. It is one of the most alarming things that can happen in busin...
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Profit and Loss Articles. Use Your People’s Mistakes as a Training Opportunity. To get the most from attrition, use carcass management. Even a blind pig finds a truffle once in a while. Only hire relatives if they are also absolutes. The Vicious Circle of Mediocrity. The Business Card Mirror defines your company purpose. The Alternative Board Prosperity Series- Finding Candidates Panel Discussion Summary. Are you hiring the tallest pygmy? The "Tallest Pygmy" syndrome comprises ten basic hiring mistakes t...
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Steve Davies Blog
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Profit and Loss Articles. Use Your People’s Mistakes as a Training Opportunity. To get the most from attrition, use carcass management. Even a blind pig finds a truffle once in a while. Only hire relatives if they are also absolutes. Whose side is the broker on? Who benefits from a lease? You are a tenant, your lease runs out and the landlord is in no hurry to give you a new lease. Should you press for a new lease or not? Use a broker to negotiate your lease renewal. Negotiating build out costs. People a...
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Steve Davies Blog
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Profit and Loss Articles. Use Your People’s Mistakes as a Training Opportunity. To get the most from attrition, use carcass management. Even a blind pig finds a truffle once in a while. Only hire relatives if they are also absolutes. Are you Hard of Listening? Don’t let TLAs clog up your communication. The Goldman Paradigm - What You Call Your Customers Defines Them. Are You Asking You Idiot Questions? A question can be a statement in disguise. When you ask a statement question it can have the wrong ...
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Steve Davies Blog
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Profit and Loss Articles. Use Your People’s Mistakes as a Training Opportunity. To get the most from attrition, use carcass management. Even a blind pig finds a truffle once in a while. Only hire relatives if they are also absolutes. It’s For My Family. Don’t let your bonuses become like a restaurant tip. One of the more challenging people that I had working for me was my lead technician, who I will call Joe. He was prejudiced against most people, but top of the list seems to be black people and wome...
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Steve Davies Blog
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Profit and Loss Articles. Use Your People’s Mistakes as a Training Opportunity. To get the most from attrition, use carcass management. Even a blind pig finds a truffle once in a while. Only hire relatives if they are also absolutes. There are two problems in business either you have a partner or you don’t. Don't Confuse Your Role With Your Ownership. Do you have Irritable Partner Syndrome? Partnership Lessons from 'Lennon-McCartney'. John Lennon and Paul McCartney were one of the most successful song wr...
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Steve Davies Blog
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Profit and Loss Articles. Use Your People’s Mistakes as a Training Opportunity. To get the most from attrition, use carcass management. Even a blind pig finds a truffle once in a while. Only hire relatives if they are also absolutes. Is the IRS Getting in the Way of How you Run your Business? Bank Personal Guarantees and Collateral. Pay Yourself When You Pay Your Employees. Smoothing to Create More Meaningful Financial Statements. Financial statements can be very misleading when you are comparing months ...
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Steve Davies Blog
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Profit and Loss Articles. Use Your People’s Mistakes as a Training Opportunity. To get the most from attrition, use carcass management. Even a blind pig finds a truffle once in a while. Only hire relatives if they are also absolutes. Bank Personal Guarantees and Collateral. Debt is like Cholesterol but you don't need the bad. READ MORE . . .
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Steve Davies Blog
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Profit and Loss Articles. Use Your People’s Mistakes as a Training Opportunity. To get the most from attrition, use carcass management. Even a blind pig finds a truffle once in a while. Only hire relatives if they are also absolutes. A verbal warning isn’t worth the paper that it is written on. One of the areas where owners and managers consistently fail is in putting things in writing to their employees, and in an increasingly litigious employment environment, this can be both damaging and costly. Boat ...
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Steve Davies Blog
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Profit and Loss Articles. Use Your People’s Mistakes as a Training Opportunity. To get the most from attrition, use carcass management. Even a blind pig finds a truffle once in a while. Only hire relatives if they are also absolutes. Lifetime Value of a Customer. Steve’s Rule of Mailing Lists. One of the best places to look for marketing ideas when putting together a marketing plan is your own customer base. If you can identify how, where and why you obtained your existing clients it can give you som...
