As a business leader, you are faced with making the choice between working in the business and working on the business. Finding the time to take your ideas, your aspirations, and turning them into results can be a challenge. Creating a focused action plan is one of...
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Tips for Bringing Your Children Into The Family Business
The printing industry is lead by entrepreneurs who started a business to fulfill their vision. And guess what, those entrepreneurs had families. Those families are often engaged in the business. At times it could be brothers or sisters, and ultimately leads to adding...
Where Do You Go From Here: Planning Your Growth
Firms are finding themselves in good financial standing as the industry re-emerges from the pause that the pandemic brought upon them. Through careful planning, proper resource allocation and the assistance of stimulus funds, balance sheets are strong. Senior teams...
Be the Best at What You Do
Being the best at what you do, and doing it every day is hard work. As a leader, what are some things that you can do to help bring out the best in your people? Start by looking at what they might be looking for at work. It may not be only the paycheck or the fact...
Focus, Engage, and Invest In Your People
Printing companies throughout the country are re-emerging. And as they do, they place a tremendous value in having their teams work well together. They respect the passion and the pride that each employee brings to their job every day. The majority of the people go to...
Your Competitive Advantage in This New Environment
Your competitive advantage is your secret sauce. Michael Porter talks about competitive advantage as creating and sustaining superior performance. How would you have defined your competitive advantage prior to March 2020, and how has it changed this past year? ...