Robin Williams (from Gallup, not the comdian) shares some great strategies and examples for empowering employees to do the right thing for your customers and brand. Getting Employees to Act on Your Brand Promise.
How Family-Run Businesses Should Choose Future Leaders
Root Cause Analysis Using Five Whys – NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
What Google Can’t See Can’t Hurt Me Right? | Signet Interactive
Going Local is a Plus for Business | Signet Interactive
Travel and Entertainment: Maximizing The Tax Benefits Page | Rhodes, Young, Black & Duncan, CPAs
7 Biggest Misconceptions Business Owners Have About Their Returns Page | Rhodes, Young, Black & Duncan, CPAs
How to Choose an Employee Stock Plan for Your Company
Why we should think about dying more often.
The Cirrus team and I have spent quite a bit of time together these last few weeks talking about all client projects coming to a close, new client projects in the new year, and our own plans to continue to establish Cirrus as the single point of contact for consulting and out-sourcing needs of the SMB. (I know. That was shameless.)
I decided to read back through a copy of Steve Job’s commencement address at Stanford University from 2005. As I was reading, the third story Steve told really struck me. Continue reading Why we should think about dying more often.
The Missing Ingredient of Dysfunctional Teams

Think you need to take your management team out to do some team building activities to get them working together? More than likely the problem goes much deeper than that. While it is good for teams to spend time doing non-work related activities together, it all comes back to this one thing. If your team has it, then maybe they are just out of sync and need some time together to recalibrate. If not, then you better start here.
Continue reading The Missing Ingredient of Dysfunctional Teams