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Organizational Structure: “The more things change, the more they stay the same”

July 23, 2012 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

The more things change, the more they stay the same — plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Organizational Structure At the turn of the century in three different parts of the world three different men published treaties on business, organizational structure and organizational theory. Many of their ideas are still used today. The [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Organizational Development Tagged With: behavioural sciences, business, coordinate teams, efficient organization, fayol, fayolism, frederick winslow taylor, henri fayol, management, management science, organization, organization theory, organizational structure, organizational studies, organizing, planning, principles of organization, structure, team

Overcoming the Commonplace By Reaching for the Stars

July 9, 2012 By HRB Family Business Consulting 1 Comment

“I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.” Quotidian, means commonplace, done daily or recurring daily. Often we need to remind ourselves, it’s our job to [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business Tagged With: business, business consulting, dmaic, dna, general electric, management, motorola, process management, quality, science, six sigma, six sigma dmaic, small business consulting, success in business, the quotidian, your business

Great Companies, Family Businesses, Don’t Start With A Plan! Really?

May 29, 2012 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

  Planning, Passion and Purpose in Great Companies Many Colleges and Universities have a center for small business, some have programs for family businesses and a few even offer degrees in Family Business Management. Many if not all offer classes on business plans, strategic plans, tactical plans, short term plan, 5 year plan and some [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Business Planning Tagged With: business, business plan, business plans, civil war, entrepreneurship, family business, management, marketing, memorial day, passion, planning, purpose, small business consulting, spreadsheet, strategic business plans, strategic planning, tactical planning

Family Business from Entrepreneurial to Managerial to Professional +Social Media

May 22, 2012 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

“An office worker was fired after her employer discovered her sex blog. A waitress was fired for venting about a customer on Facebook. A woman lost a job offer at Cisco because of something she said on Twitter. These incidents illustrate why it might be wise to create a social media policy for our employees.” [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business Tagged With: advertising, business, facebook, family, family business, family business consulting, labor, media policy, online social networking, social information processing, social media, social network service

Do You Manage From A ‘Big Picture’ Or Details Perspective? Get Ready To Zoom In And Zoom Out!

April 16, 2012 By HRB Family Business Consulting 1 Comment

What is your management style? Do you lead by making balancing complex markets and factors that can impact your business or do you roll up your sleeves and work out the smallest details? A few weeks back there was a TED event at the University of Michigan Flint. TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business, Leadership, Leadership Style Tagged With: business, business books, business partners, captions, demographics, family business, family business consulting, josh linkner, sandwich generation, the big picture guy, the details guy, zoom in, zoom out

The Choreography of Sales Service – Should You Underpromise And Overdeliver?

April 9, 2012 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

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. “We provide solutions.” Sound familiar, this is what our business is based on; what many business are based on, we all provide services. Today, the service sector’s share of the U.S. economy has risen to roughly 80 percent. Being a service business is complex, complicated and it’s on a continuum; customer’s expectations increase with [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Continuous Improvement, Family Owned Business, Process Management Tagged With: advanced product quality planning, bill hybels, business, continuous improvement, Customer Service, family business consulting, hrb, ken blanchard, low cost airlines, management, marketing, patrick lencioni, service, service businesses, services sector, southwest airlines, united airlines, willow creek community church

Give Time for Time.

April 2, 2012 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

Time Management- Donner du temps au temp Time in the organization is constant and irreversible. Nothing can be substituted for time. Worse, once wasted, it can never be regained. Everyone has numerous demands on their limited time. Time keeps getting away and we have trouble controlling it. No matter what your position, we cannot stop [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Continuous Improvement, Family Owned Business, Time Management Tagged With: business, color coding, family business consulting, hrb, human behavior, irreversible, management, personal life, planning, substitute, time, time management

Common Wisdom On Team Building With Champs, Not Chumps

March 26, 2012 By HRB Family Business Consulting 1 Comment

Does Your Firm Excel As A Team? Trying to pick a restaurant for an important event a friend shared an interesting insight; the local area had a 5 star rating system. If you had to choose would you select a one or two star? One of my friends has been awarded a large project with [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Decision-making, Effective Business, Family Business Hiring, Family Owned Business Tagged With: A Team, Building A Team, Building Family, business, commitments, employment, family business consulting, Good Team, grow, hrb, human interest, keys, peter drucker, team, Team Building, teams, teamwork, The Firm, Your Team

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