You’ve got a great product or service to sell. You’ve identified your target audience and are creating a market niche for yourself. But, you can’t do everything yourself, so you begin to hire employees to help you. Following that stage, many entrepreneurs find...
I recently mentioned to a colleague that I wished clients would call me before they fired the pregnant employee. No disrespect intended to pregnant ladies here (having been one myself—twice). However, one of my goals in life seems to be to get employers to understand...
“To have a boom, you have to keep your nose clean legally…” —L. Ron Hubbard1 _______________________ Mr. Hubbard defined a “cycle of action” in this way: “Control may be subdivided into three separate parts. These parts are: “START-CHANGE-and-STOP....
“To have a boom, you have to keep your nose clean legally…”1 —L. Ron Hubbard Firing an employee who does not expect it is often the impetus for that employee filing a discrimination lawsuit against his or her former employer. When the employee does not see it coming,...
“To have a boom, you have to keep your nose clean legally…”1 —L. Ron HubbardWe live and work in a diversely populated world. With no harm intended, people often inadvertently include sexist language in their writing and speech (i.e., language that tends to evoke a...
If you are familiar with Mr. Hubbard’s management system, you know that he recognized that conditions in a business can be improved by applying certain specific and identified condition formulas. In an article entitled THE CONDITIONS, STATES OF OPERATION, he said:...
Apple Inc. almost collapsed in the early nineties. Steve Jobs returned to the company and grew it to stellar heights, from which it is still growing today. We explore how Apple has maintained its Affluence, and how you may do the same for your business. The goal of...
We love a mystery. We’re told there is a bizarre creature in the woods, a treasure buried in the earth, something in the night sky that we can’t identify—and we yearn to discover what these things are. Here’s how three businesses used mystery to grow and get...
Today the works of Mercury Mosaics can be seen in thousands of homes and in big businesses such as Google, Disney, Starbucks and Whole Foods. But it wasn’t always this way. It all started in a studio apartment with a woman who had a purpose to prove to herself and...
Best Buy succeeded where other stores failed. But when they opened in new markets they didn’t repeat their successful action, and it cost them. Any business owner would benefit knowing how they lost their way. In today’s internet age, brick-and-mortar stores are...
Southwest may be the most profitable company in the competitive airline industry. They utilize three “jets” that drive their success and make up their model. Any business wanting to reach greater heights should take note. One could say that the three “jets” that drive...
Mars Candies applied management skill to grow their company for more than 100 years. With a keen understanding of good management practices, this company has become one of the most popular places to work in Europe. Mars Candies, based in McLean, Virginia, is now one...