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Hiring by gut feeling is a high-risk gamble that puts you in an expensive hole. When you make a bad hire, you pay twice: first in salary, then in turnover. In many industries, that turnover can cost 30% - 50% of the person’s annual salary. Candidates can hide their experience, and owners can exaggerate the opportunity, leading to a mismatch that your team usually sees before you do. Protect your hiring project by implementing a few failsafes to determine if a candidate is goi

How to narrow down candidates and protect you time in hiring

30% The survival rate of 2nd generation family-owned business. 10%Family businesses that remain privately held to a 3rd generation. Alarming statistics. Small business is hard on families. Most families have tough relationship challenges, add a family enterprise to the mix and you have a recipe for serious dysfunction. We have worked with dozens of family businesses that we helped successfully […]

Check out our video, Work Gloves vs Running Shoes, for a new way to think about strengths and weaknesses on your team . . . and to laugh a bit in the process. What work do you squeamishly run from? We were working with a marketing and merchandising client on a strategic hire a few years […]

Check out our video Not Another YOU for a 1-minute paradigm shift on building your bench for maximum impact. In a scene from Bill Watterson’s classic comic Calvin & Hobbes, the anti-hero, Calvin, decides to build a duplicator. His theory: if he can create another Calvin, the duplicate can be responsible for the chores, homework and other […]

Hidden Treasures Series: Episode 4(Check out The Tandem Bike Video) It may come as no surprise that I love a good bike analogy. Did you know the front rider on the tandem bicycle team is called the Captain? This rider’s role is to be heads-up, looking forward, deciding strategy, direction, and speed. Much like the role of […]

Efficiency, getting things done, solving problems, agility. We live in a world where Amazon ruined all patience and if we can’t get what we want now, we don’t want it at all. What happens when all we want is more time in the day? More time for family, hobbies, or our business. Amazon fails to […]