5 Questions for Employee Check-ins

5 Questions for Employee Check-ins

Brace yourselves, employee check-ins are coming… We’ve all seen the various memes when it comes to employee reviews.  So what’s the big deal about having employee reviews anyway? Why does everyone hate them? Everyone is happy, right?  Short answer, no. Long answer, if...
Indecision vs. Bad Decision

Indecision vs. Bad Decision

The party of no ideas vs. the party of bad ideas Today’s blog content was inspired by Dave Sobel’s Business of Tech podcast on one phrase he said during the 28-minute segment: “pick a direction, any direction”. It was almost tangential but,...
Fire a Client And Still Increase Profits

Fire a Client And Still Increase Profits

Can I Really Fire a Client? I’d like to weigh in on popular business consulting advice. Many times I hear the pundits or business consultants during webinars say one of these things: “Raise your prices!”, “Fire your bad clients!”,...
To Outsource or Not?

To Outsource or Not?

I started out with no particular answer on this blog post about whether to outsource or not. I just wanted to go with the flow and see where it led.  I don’t think of outsourcing as an inherently negative thing or an inherently positive thing. I’ve...
Watch out for that ditch!

Watch out for that ditch!

I’ve been blessed to call Brook Lee a colleague now for nearly a decade. I met her when becoming the service manager for a 13-person firm in Savannah, GA, just a year after I sold my first MSP.  In the near five years that I was there, that company had grown to...