Employee Retention Tax Credit: Why Most NJ and PA Companies Qualify
As you are undoubtedly aware if you are a business owner, the COVID-19 pandemic related lockdowns caused great headaches for...Continue reading→
Dealing With The Unexpected In Business
Patrick Stewart, CIRA Monument Advisors Anybody who has owned or operated a business in the last few years would probably...Continue reading→
Time is the Only True Metric
A car dealer once remarked that “it’s easier to fix the score than fix the store” and in my experience,...Continue reading→
Throw Away Your Financial Statements
Throw them away, or at least don’t look at them. Put them away for now. During a pandemic you don’t...Continue reading→
The New Hire You Really Can Afford
Increase the Value of a Business when it’s Time to Sell We live in an on-demand world where you can...Continue reading→
The Future of Breweries in America?
Sometime in 2015 the number of US brewers passed four thousand with much fanfare for those that pay attention. It’s...Continue reading→
The Art of the Job
Somebody said to me once that if you want a job done, pay somebody to do it. Their point was...Continue reading→
Sustainable Change
You Can Keep the Change There is so much advice about change that it fills the pages of innumerable books...Continue reading→
Wow, I didn’t see that one coming!
Dealing with the unexpected in business Patrick Stewart, CIRA Monument Advisors Anybody who has owned or operated a business in...Continue reading→
Lean Into Your Business
Just in Time, Lean Manufacturing or even the Toyota Production System has grown beyond manufacturing into Lean Business. As business...Continue reading→
Is Your Business Balanced?
Cutting Costs to a Bad Business How to Create an Effective Budget Through Balance “I’m gonna cut costs.” That was...Continue reading→
Good Company Differentiators
Good company differentiators are mainly product, process and people with different emphasis based on the business type. I think process...Continue reading→
Errors are Opportunities
There is a saying that mistakes should be treated as treasures not trash and a recent experience reminded me of...Continue reading→
Distribution System Dilemma:
Whether Robots or People, Process is the Key to Success Without a solid process, even the most technologically advanced distribution...Continue reading→
Use Diagnostic Tools and Stop Fighting Fires
Realizing there is a problem with your business is easy in most cases. The hard part is identifying the cause...Continue reading→
Death, Taxes and Forecast Error
Focus on what you can actually Control As you read this we are in the middle of re-starting a business...Continue reading→
Dark Matter and the Profits it Destroys
According to Wikipedia, “dark matter” is an unidentified type of matter that explains a number of otherwise puzzling astronomical observations....Continue reading→
Costs Are Like a Waterbed
How to Really Lower Costs I heard the phrase “costs are like a waterbed” recently in a discussion about how...Continue reading→
