… but it is even harder to find a good boss. I often hear employers complain that it is hard to find good help. I rarely hear them ask how…
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Good people? What’s that supposed to mean? Compared to what? Bad people? With the exception of the Hillside Strangler and Jack the Ripper, I’m hesitant to label very many people…
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If you have a family ranch, whether you know it or not, you have a family employment policy. At least your kids think you do. In the absence of a…
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Dan Airely, a behavioral economist at Duke University conducted a silly experiment with serious implications. The experiment involved money, Coca Cola and college students. Dr. Airely stocked dorm room refrigerators…
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Most “ranch managers” aren’t managers. They don’t do the work of a manager, they don’t produce the results a manager would produce and they aren’t paid what a manager would…
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Several weeks ago I included a WOTB quiz in a ProfitTips column in which readers could score the extent to which they work ON their businesses. Click here to read that column. The column…
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Most people blame things beyond our control like the weather, government regulation, low commodity prices and increasing costs for their failure to make a healthy profit. These are the things…
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When I was a kid if I asked my parents for money they would usually come up with some extra chores for me to do or suggest that I see…
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I asked a group of our clients what difference it would make to their operation and their life if they had an extra hour a day of productive time. Most…
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Most of us hire people to work. We write job descriptions telling them to do this or that. But what people do and how long or hard they work is…
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