“Check Your Drawers, and Other Timely Advice for Managers”
THIS POST IS THE TITLE CHAPTER IN MY BOOK “Check Your Drawers, and Other Timely Advice For Managers” It is over 70 chapters of lessons like this one. All true life personal experiences and I tried to inject a humorous approach to learning from my experiences as a Manager moving up through the ranks, so here it is! Wheweeee! […]
Should I buy a business or am I crazy?
I recently had a gentleman ask the question should I buy a business, or am I crazy? The answer is no, you are not crazy, and yes you should buy a business with certain caveats! I want to disclose here that I was a licensed Business Broker and I am writing this as personal, not […]
It’s not how fast you grow, but how well you grow fast!
While working at Xpert Tune we were trying very hard to expand the company and I was in charge of Human Resources. Having been given the task of hiring and training new managers for new stores that we were opening we would usually run an ad and receive over 100 resumes to choose from. We […]
Management Depth, Can we Really Do That?
While serving as H.R. Director at the automotive Service Chain back in the late 1980’s we had just grown our company rapidly from 12 to 25 stores and the owner wanted to buy out a large competitor out west with 244 stores for around $70 million dollars.
Location, Location, Location
So many questions to consider when choosing locations! It really depends on what business you are in and who is going to buy from you. Here are a few things to consider. Do your customers come to you? Do you have to go to your customers? Do you have employees? Do you manufacture products for distribution?