The Symbiotic Relationship in Business – Complexity & Simplicity
Symbiosis is close and often long-term interaction between two or more different biological species. Some symbiotic relationships are obligate, meaning that both symbionts entirely depend on each other for survival. In business the symbiotic relationship shows up in...
Why Owners Need To Reconcile Personal & Business Life
You see we are told in articles, blogs, seminars and books to strike a balance between our personal life and our business life. We are told to not to let work take over our lives. Google allowing staff to work on pet projects for 20% of the time is an example of...
The Ballad of H-P & the Wake Up Call for SMBs
Wednesday’s WSJ headline read: “What’s Gone Wrong With H-P”? Well first the backstory from the article: Backstory 9 months to July 2012 $5.8Bn loss – compared with 9 months to July 2007 when they made $5.1Bn profit Same period sales...
As the owner of an SMB – 10 Questions that determine Increased Market Value?
Whether you define an SMB in terms of employee numbers or some other metric the evidence points to the majority of employment is created by SMBs. Are these businesses actually creating value? Are these businesses becoming more valuable over time. In the U.S. there are...
The Map of U.S. Employment
A majority of the 120m U.S. employees work at large firms. True or False? Depends on how you define large. If Large = 100 employees or more then Yes, 65.1% of employees work at large firms If Large = 500 employees or more then Yes, 50.6% of employees work at large...Operational Excellence For Exits
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