Combining two companies can be demanding and time consuming for the senior staff as well as the employees, clients, and suppliers. If you’re the buyer, take the lead to anticipate the obstacles that will come up. The reality is that there will always be some unknowns,...
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Why Is It So Hard to Make Difficult People Decisions?
What do you do with folks that aren’t right for the job, and don’t want your help to fix it? Maybe it’s an individual who has been a loyal employee and has moved up through progressively important roles. I recently shared some ideas about how to increase the...
Four Steps to Help Focus and Overcome the Noise in Your Day
There’s no shortage of day-to-day business impediments, in any business, but particularly in the printing business. Your day is consumed by people issues, clients, equipment and productivity challenges, and outside suppliers and business professionals. And that’s on a...
Three Steps to Strengthen Your Team
You’ve got a great team of people at your business. In fact, you tell your customers and prospects every day that your staff is the strength of your business. As the leader of your organization, you have a responsibility for nurturing and coaching that team each day...
Turn Ideas Into Action
Great ideas are all around us. Think about the meetings you’ve been in over the last 30 days. How many good ideas were floated around? Most likely several. No doubt some of those ideas are getting traction in your company right now. But many just end up on the...
Transfer Your Knowledge to the Next Generation
Hey, when are you going to teach me what you know? What else should I know going forward? While the next generation may not come out and say that, they are most likely thinking it. They want to be as successful as you were, maybe more successful. You know who else is...