Leverage Your Human Resources to Achieve Optimal Success

'Designing Strategies' eNewsletter May - June 2010                                   Volume 7 - Issue 33   How are you feeling about the performance of your employees?  What have you done to assure that employees have the support needed to do their jobs optimally?    If you spend too much time in hand-holding mode, constantly forced to intervene with employees who can't seem to get or stay on track, that's not a good thing.  If running around, putting out fires is a normal day for you, it's time to [...]

By |2017-01-30T23:59:54-05:00May 25th, 2010|Employees, Growth, Newsletter, Strategic Management|

New Growth and Marketing Strategies to Fight the Recession

'Designing Strategies' Newsletter  January-February 2010                  Volume 7    Issue 31   Undoubtedly we have come through the worst recession most of us have ever experienced.  Companies large and small folded entirely, others merged to stay afloat. Some have been treading water for a very long time. It remains to be seen how far into 2010 these turbulent times will take us. News reports talk about the recession being behind us. Yet other reports talk of a jobless recovery, one of the big unknowns, as unemployment rates hover between 10-11%. Consumer confidence is not moving up [...]

By |2017-01-19T11:15:44-05:00January 19th, 2010|Growth, Marketing, Newsletter, Strategic Planning, Strategy|

Innovation: Essential Strategy for Small Business Growth & Success

  'Designing Strategies' Newsletter July - August 2007                Volume 4 - Issue 17     One of the brightest innovations I’ve seen lately comes from the people who brought me my first box of crayons...Crayola.  To be more precise, it was Binney & Smith, Inc. who brought pure joy to my childhood.  What child didn't have a box of Crayola crayons in their toy box?  Once they gave the world a box of eight colors in the early 1900's, they increased color choices to 16, then 24, 48 and 64, and beyond.  Innovation is necessary to grow [...]

By |2017-02-24T18:21:44-05:00July 17th, 2007|Growth, Innovation, Newsletter, Strategy|
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