Over the past 40 years, I have been asked a large number of questions about managing a business’ operations. The question I am asked a lot recently is… what is the first thing I should do? The First Thing You Should Do! Now this question generally comes from working with business leaders who lack the […]
Obviously, the struggling global economy has forced the businesses who walked out of their shared workspace over a year ago to have to reopen. For the owners and managers of the thousands of shared workspaces around the country, these re-openings were welcomed. However, the move back into open office space has resulted in shared workspace […]
Sometimes I wonder if people using smartphones to post videos to LinkedIn really know how portrait formatted videos degrade their brand image? If they only knew! Several times a month one of our clients will show me a LinkedIn video produced in portrait format and tell me… “I hope you are not going to produce […]
I’m not sure why the big box commercial real estate firms want to call shared work centers CoWorking Space. I have been to dozens of these places and yet to find anyone CoWorking in this space. Everyone I have met who rents space in one of the hundreds of open area business centers is Sharing […]
Every Smartphone brand should come with a full day of boot camp style training. Not only would this provide users training on how to use the phone effectively but would be delivered like a drill instructor lectures on how NOT to use the phone. Like, When it is NOT appropriate to use the Speaker Phone […]
I get requests all day long from people I don’t know wanting to schedule a ‘meeting’. And, I get almost as many requests from other people who I do know who will quickly say…’ let’s schedule a call. When actually what the people I don’t know are asking is to have a quick call…not a […]
One thing every parent with a high school age child needs is someone who knows how all of the IN’s and OUT’s of the College Admission system works. And…Marcel Zeh is that SOMEONE. Marcel spent 5 years as a college recruiter for the University of Minnesota. That is exactly enough time to become an expert, […]
Do you think a hidden expert is among us? I see out in the crap-o-sphere, as Evan Sanchez calls it, there is a boatload of people calling themselves EXPERTS in one thing or the other. However, most of these so-called experts have only been in their field for a few years. How can anyone be […]
Did you know more business is done in the morning than in the afternoon…or evening? That’s why doing business in the morning produces better results. Get Things Done in the Morning Yes, I know. You don’t like getting up before noon! If you’re a business executive or owner who just can’t get it together before […]
In this day of limited access to the physical world and our only access to information is via the Internet, it is easy for many people to build mistrust of others and anger from not being able to know what is true…or false. So, As I See It It was easy before the shutdown to […]
