How Keith Kantor changed Service Foods’ offerings from a ‘want’ to a ‘need’

Five years ago the economy was humming along, and Service Foods was humming right along with it. The Norcross, Ga.-based gourmet food supplier was growing steadily throughout its five-state Southeastern base. But CEO Keith Kantor was uneasy, because he felt his company was vulnerable. Many of Service Foods’ customers regarded the company’s home-delivered fare as […]

How J.R. Thomas works to find people who can sustain MedSynergies’ pace

One thing MedSynergies Inc. has gotten good at is growing fast. The company’s revenue has been rising at an eye-popping rate, 30 percent plus for eight years running. But a byproduct of that whirlwind growth is that it’s difficult to find and retain workers who can keep up the pace. Sometimes people get left in […]

How to avoid the traps of fallacious thinking and start challenging yourself

Just like software can have bugs, humans have bugs in the way we think and make decisions. As a result, many problems of businesses today are not the result of some outside factor, rather they are self-inflicted as a result of “mind bugs” — bugs in the critical internal processes that occur in the 5 […]