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Just Answer a Few Questions

August 18, 2016 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

A few weeks back I was at a Family Business, a sporting goods shop, their core business is firearms. This small business is a focused on customer satisfaction. They have a series of key questions for buyers, first time buyers: What is the intended use? Set a budget New or Used Size/type Caliber How does [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business Tagged With: Business Coach, coaching, family business, small business, Small Businesses

Character, Competence and Chemistry in Family Owned Business

April 27, 2015 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

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  Recently the NCAA basketball season ended, both the Men’s and the Women’s champions have legendary coaches. Listening to the stories and the coaches; one had to ask. How do you win so often?  What does it take to make a leader? Are there lessons a family business could learn from these two coaches? It takes [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Business Leaders Tagged With: Business Leadership, family business, family business consulting, Family Business Leadership, family owned business, small business

Entrepreneur or Business Owner?

May 14, 2014 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

The entrepreneur starts out of love, passion, inspiration, maybe some spark of genius and many, many times frustration.

Filed Under: Entrepreneur, Small Business Consulting Tagged With: business, business consulting, Consulting Small Business, Entrepreneur, family owned business, Greater Fool Theory, small business

The Power of Discomfort – Do You Live in Your Comfort Zone?

March 31, 2014 By HRB Family Business Consulting 1 Comment

  View the comfort zone not as a shelter but a prison. Family businesses need to manage the comfort zone. With the NCAA tournament in full swing we wanted to take advantage of a query, a postulate put forth a few years ago by Malcolm Gladwell. In January of 1971, the Fordham University Rams played [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business Tagged With: Comfort Zone, family business, Fordham, small business

Managing Yourself and Business Analytics

November 12, 2012 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

Two articles really grabbed me this week as we all watched as nature remind us what power is and what it’s capable of with eight, ten feet of water.. The first read was by a Peter Drucker, although deceased Drucker’s articles still hit home and like aged advice from our parents, it still sends a [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Leadership, Leadership Style Tagged With: Analytics, business, Business Analytics, Business Performance, peter drucker, small business, True Leadership

Owners, Employees, Customers and Company Culture

September 19, 2012 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

. Why are you in business? Does your company culture reflect the owner’s values, inspire employees and satisfy customers’ needs? During a recent discussion about the new iPhone 5, a friend asked our group, ‘why Apple is in business’? A business is an activity that provides goods or services to consumers for the purpose of [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Employee Culture, Family Owned Business Tagged With: apple computer, apple inc., business consulting, business models, company culture, culture matters, family business, increase market share, market share, small business, steve jobs, steve wozniak

“You’ll Miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”

August 3, 2012 By HRB Family Business Consulting 3 Comments

Don’t Miss the Opportunity “You’ll Miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” Family Businesses, the successful ones, recognize that their longevity depends on keeping customers, employees and shareholders happy. Recently a family business President commented on the challenges and the opportunities that have been presented to him. He expressed his personal drive, focus and [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Business Opportunity Tagged With: advice family, business, business leadership opportunity, business president, business small business, carpe diem, family, family business, keeping customers, leadership opportunity, management, Seize the Day, small business, small business leadership, succession planning

r u into #socialmedia?

November 9, 2011 By mco Leave a Comment

“What do Google, Wal-Mart, and MyBarackObama.com have in common, besides their extraordinary success? They are organizations that are infused with IT in such a way that it leads to a qualitative change in their entire business. I get frustrated when I see people highlighting use of social media–blogging, wikis, twitter, customer feedback system–as if they [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business Tagged With: business small business, enterprise social software, family business, for business, online social networking, small business, social information processing, social media, social network service, web 2.0, world wide web

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