In the previous article in this series (How Not To Fall Off A Cliff: Surveys In Today’s World), we covered two correct application of the concepts as laid out in L. RON HUBBARD’S ARTICLE OF 2 SEPTEMBER 1979, SURVEYS ARE THE KEY TO STATS. “To find out what people want...
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How To Break Free of a Bad Economy
This article is a follow up to the previously released “Breaking Free of a Bad Economy” to help you overcome business and market challenges. “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity”, said Seneca, a Roman philosopher and statesman who lived in the...
Breaking Free of a Bad Economy
“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” Henry Ford is credited with saying that long before many successful modern companies we know and respect, such as Twitter, YouTube and Instagram, felt the pressures of impending failure and changed course...
How to Avoid Company Amnesia
An informal survey of your company staff may likely find that the subject of creating and maintaining files does not meet the same kind of enthusiasm that you might expect for say, a company business trip in the Bahamas. Regardless, files need to become your company’s...
The Right Way to Handle a Slump
There is a very specific sequence of actions any business owner must take when they encounter a slump. Failure to do so may result in lost business which is never regained. I have personally seen years of hard work to build a business up to new high ranges...
Three Ways To Get It All Wrong
A multinational software company with headquarters outside the US had an office in Los Angeles to manage its US operations. The US operations had been insolvent for the vast majority of 8 years and the company had won barely any market share during this time. Its top...
Are You Getting Things Done In A Proper Sequence?
In the 30 plus years I have spent as a management consultant, using only the training I received as a young man in the Hubbard Management System, I have stepped into a wide variety of companies of all shapes and sizes and in all parts of the world. And I continue to...
Wrong Solution? Maybe It’s the Wrong Problem!
So your sales have been dwindling and you’re on your third sales manager and a couple of new salespeople and no matter how much you have pleaded and pressured or scolded and threatened, sales continues its frightening trend and lackluster range. You’ve racked your...