by Rick McPartlin | Oct 22, 2014 | Strategy
Every day we are told how to learn about running a businesses from sports examples, and that works in a lot of cases. One big difference, however, is the “Business Season” season never ends. For every sports team, there is the chance to change everything after the...
by Rick McPartlin | Aug 20, 2014 | Strategy
My most surprising vacation was to Salem Massachusetts. I had been in Massachusetts hundreds of times and Salem, at least 3 times. This time, I went with my kids as one of my teenage daughters, a writer, was fixated on the Salem Witch Trials. She had told me the...
by Rick McPartlin | Jul 30, 2014 | Strategy
Sleep, exercise, diet, relax, laugh, smile, and a glass of red wine have a lot to do with health. Like the commercial says, “Who doesn’t know that?” But knowing it and applying it are two completely different things. Even though we know about each of these, what we...
by Rick McPartlin | May 28, 2014 | Strategy
Sales are up, I have more employees every month, profits are growing, my bank likes me…how can things get any better? This is the business equivalent of being 22 years old, feeling great, being able to eat or drink anything, looking trim, feeling healthy, having...
by Rick McPartlin | Feb 14, 2014 | Strategy
100% of organizations are over invested in the production of revenue! The over investment is the result of the “Cost of Chaos” to produce revenue. The production of revenue is a TOTAL organizational effort, and while every organization earns revenue in...
