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In the Out of Hiring and Employee Retention

July 28, 2015 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

In And Out of Hiring and Employee Retention

  Recently we attended a manufacturers roundtable in the 3rd largest city in Tennessee. Every company at the table some 30 + were hiring and struggling to find employees. The real issues are multi-sided quandaries. At the top of each column in our analysis are gains and loses. First we realise we are according to [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business Tagged With: Employee Retention, small business consulting

The #WorldCup and Family Business

June 30, 2014 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

#WorldCup and Family Business

In the #WorldCup – Team USA advanced to the “knockout” round, for only the third time, (1930, 2002, and 2014). Soccer, football (or Fútbol) around the globe, is simply “The World’s Game”. Soccer continues to grow in the US. Today with over 13 million Americans playing, it is the fastest growing sport in the US. [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Business Tagged With: #TheWorldCup, family business, small business consulting, Team Building

No Wrong Door, Welcome to the Puzzle House

May 27, 2014 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

To give, and not to count the cost to fight, and not to heed the wounds, to toil, and not to seek for rest, to labor, and not to ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do thy will Family businesses are a key to the resilience of the American economy. Family [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business Tagged With: American Economy, business consulting, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneur Businesses, family business, small business consulting

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

April 28, 2014 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

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Last week we meet with a number of CPAs, tax season was over. We talked about many things, their businesses, families and concerns. Many CPA firms are Family Businesses. Accounting is an information system. More precisely, it is the measurement methodology and communication system designed to produce selected quantitative data (usually in monetary terms) about [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Effective Business Tagged With: Business Advice, business education, Business Owners, education, Education Small Business, family business, family owned business, small business consulting

Class is over.

December 27, 2012 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

A few friends, all professors in the business departments of some pretty impressive universities, were discussing a last lecture for every class. In September 18, 2007 Randy Pausch gave a now famous presentation at Carnegie Mellon, subtitled “achieving your childhood dreams”. Watch a video for more … Pausch in his battle with cancer offered some [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business Tagged With: Achieve Your Dreams, Brick, business consulting, Childhood Dreams, small business consulting, Your Childhood Dreams, Your Dreams

Innovation, Recognition all come from the Culture

September 26, 2012 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

. “When I worked for you, I thought I was Superman.” I have occasionally reflected on why that was. Not sure I know all the answers, but the things I do know are that the environment were real, the energy was high, and the crap was low.” A friend shared that he had actually received [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Employee Culture, Family Owned Business Tagged With: business consulting, culture, culture of innovation, Customer Service, energy, hsieh, innovation, productivity, small business consulting, tony hsieh, zappos.com

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

The Shareholder Value Myth And The Importance Of The Stakeholders

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

Shareholders vs. Stakeholders Lynn Stout’s book, The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public was a subject this week in Jack Welch’s blog, Tom Peters’tweets and an article in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Social Reform.” “Shareholder-value thinking dominates the business world today. Professors, policymakers, [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Governance Practices Tagged With: board of directors, business consulting, business smart, business world, corporate governance, lynn stout, management, maximizing shareholder wealth, shareholder, shareholder value, shareholder wealth, shareholders, small business consulting, stakeholder, stakeholders

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