Blog Posts in Value Creation

Provide Transparency into Your Services

May 02

By Ed Scanlan

 In this video: I discuss a characteristic of Services 2.0 – allowing your customers to see the true value of the service you are providing to their company. It forces you to deliver value, encourages you to improve your offering and empowers your customers to be a smarter consumer of your goods.

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Green Your Workplace in Five Simple Steps

Apr 18

By Steve Gumm

Businesses are often the environment's worst enemy. They're the places where tons of paper and files are thrown away, bottles of water, space heaters and small fans line the desks of employees, and a parking lot lined with cars is always commonplace.

 
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Disruptive Management Solutions

Apr 04

By Charles Wu

In an attempt to become a good “corporate citizen” and give back to the community, I’ve recently gotten into mentoring promising young entrepreneurs.  I spent a morning with two bright-eyed entrepreneurs who were brimming with enthusiasm about their latest invention that was going to completely disrupt  some fast growing multi-billion market niche…

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Scout's Honor

Mar 21

By Jay Myers

In an excerpt from his book “Keep Swinging”, Jay Myers discusses how he partially modeled his business after Boy Scouts of America and today gives back to the organization through volunteer work and donations. 

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Giving Thanks - To Your Employees

Mar 07

By Jay Goltz

What I Used to Think: My employees know I appreciate them.

Nobody Told Me: Your employees have no idea you appreciate them unless you tell them so. Express your gratitude to employees who have done a good job or put in long hours.

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Blood From A Turnip

Feb 08

By John Fairclough

During difficult economic times, it is important to drive down costs. Although there are many ways to accomplish this, some cost cutting can cause permanent damage to your business. My approach to cost cutting is to turn it into a contest, which I have named “Blood From a Turnip”. Here is an overview.

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What Employees Really Want

Jan 24

By Jay Goltz

What I Used to Think: You have to develop sophisticated motivational programs if you want employees to love working for your company.

Nobody Told Me: The issue is demotivation, not motivation.

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Deaf Entrepreneur Wakes Up and Hears Customers

Jan 06

By Jeffrey Weber

Remarkably, as a deaf entrepreneur I was able to start a business, create marketing materials and a lead-generation method and receive orders.  Lots of orders.  So many that my company grew from zero to over one million in sales by year two and became profitable.

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Transitioning to a Second Stager, or "Damn, we did it!"

Sep 15

By Kevin Taylor

You're the leader of a multi-million dollar business. You have begun putting your management team in place. But, you work 50-60 hours a week. In fact, you are still involved in most day-to-day operations. You know you need to slow down, think strategically, and improve the business's ability to grow sustainably.

If these statements describe you, congratulations! You've grown your company into a second-stager. It is no longer a startup.

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