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Measuring medical outcomes is complicated, sensitive, fraught with pitfalls and difficult to communicate. It is something only the government can do, but unfortunately it isn’t the kind of thing the government does well. Read More

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, as reported by Bloomberg, employee productivity dropped last quarter at a 2% annual rate. The common wisdom is that we have pushed an overstretched workforce as far as we can, but there could be other reasons. Read More

Small Business owners who are considering an exit strategy need to start by looking at their business entity if they want to avoid the corporate tax trap. A privately held C-Corp can be a tax nightmare to sell. Read More

So, you started marketing your business on Twitter or Facebook? What do you do next? Here are four questions to ask yourself before joining another network! Read More

Employees are free agents. As a business owner you wouldn’t sell your customers at a loss because in past years you made a profit. Neither should we expect employees to get better at their jobs without expecting compensation commensurate with their current market value. Small business owners avoid Read More

Great content may fail because it isn't marketed properly. But B2B marketing can fail, too. Learn when and why B2B marketing can fail and how to prevent it. Read More

The economic and demographic shifts that face small businesses drives the need to run companies better than ever have before. Between 2008 and 2010 many business owners faced a task they had never previously dealt with; reducing staff. Few things impact the culture of a company more than layoffs. Read More

Many small business owners survived the recession by making their companies "lean and mean." Was that enough to survive the next 5 years? I've been surprised by the tone of my clients' conversations since the beginning of the year. They want to get tougher. The want to plan more. They want to find Read More

Every year the health clubs are crowded in January with new members, Resolutioners, but they disappear rapidly. The same thing often happens to business plans unless the owner really makes the effort to stick to the plan's execution. Read More

Small business confidence plunged following the elections, largely because nothing really changed in the battle between a White House focused on expanded entitlements, and a Congress that refuses to pay for them. Whether action is taken to forestall the Cliff, by no means a certainty, no one expect Read More