Category: Management

Jeff McLanahan Contributing Writer Contributor My wife Jackie and I recently moved from the deep south (Texas) to the great north (Wisconsin).  To prepare for the move, we

In a recent Shepard Letter, I wrote about the concept of giving recognition to the people who deserve it. Someone being recognized for what they bring to the organization is often overlooked.

Our pastor just did a sermon where he asked the question, Angelfish or Pufferfish, which are you? Way back in the day, we bought an aquarium.

Recently I was speaking with a friend and used the word “y’all.” For those of you that do not know, y’all is a contraction of you and

You must earn your ending. The eulogy, the bonus, the Pulitzer prize. The day your business sells, and you retire on an island. The day you graduate from

Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL.com, fired an employee on a conference call as over 1,000 employees listened in. There was a media frenzy, and twitter blew up

As we are all aware, employee retention has taken on a new significance. We are in one of the tightest labor markets in the past 50 years

Ruth King Contributing Writer Profitability Revolution Paradigm Some Contractors Think Money Runs Up Hill. Do you? The answer might surprise you.  You put procedures in place.  In the

Brad Curry Contributing Writer Benjamin Franklin Plumbing   How many people have done something stupid (or let’s say less than brilliant) in the last 2 weeks? Odds are,

We’ve all heard them. Those annoying phrases/buzzwords that repeatedly get used during meetings. These phrases have become so commonplace that if you do an internet search