This is a guest post from Jori Hamiliton (see bio at the end) – thanks for sharing Jori! As of 2019, there were 30.7 million small businesses in the United States alone. And yet, in spite of the enormous number of startups in existence, roughly half of all small businesses don’t survive past the five-year […]

I’ve talked before about the great advice I got from a mentor of mine. Profit Margins were the focus of Winning Advice #3 on a list of 5 that became part of my blueprint for success in the spring of 1997.  In short, it said a business owner must understand the importance of establishing, understanding, and […]

In Jim Collin’s book “Good to Great” he discovered that one of the key drivers for great companies was the consistent ability to “Confront the brutal facts”. “Great organizations lead with questions, not answers. If the organization openly confronts the brutal facts of each situation, the right decisions will often become self-evident..” Basically it’s the […]