Of all the things that can be stolen, your identity is probably the most damaging. While material items can be replaced, your identity can cause an array of issues — not to mention the emotional strain and expense that accompanies a breach of your personal information.
Search consultants are brought in to help companies strengthen some aspect of their business with a critical executive hire. With so much at stake, hiring candidates for these positions takes an expert approach.
When you understand your operating cycle and how money is spent and earned in your business, you are better able to retain control of your valuable working capital. Michael Hengl explains what strong companies do to effectively manage their financial cycles.
The use of expatriate employees, individuals who are sent to work and live abroad for a defined period of time, can play a key role in helping to quickly get a new international business unit up and running. At the same time, companies need to consider the expenses involved.
This coming year, Ohio again will be in the crosshairs of the U.S. political world for “as Ohio goes, so goes the nation.”
Customer concentration can be a very serious issue for small businesses. A business that relies on a few big customers for a majority of its revenue can easily be brought to its knees when one or two of these customers suddenly pull out.
While he was born in Oakville, Alabama, Jesse Owens and his sharecropper family moved to Cleveland when he was 9 — and Ohio earned a
Acquisitions generally fall into three categories:
Geographical expansion, such as in another area of the country or a foreign country.
A new product line that uses your current distribution system. For example, wheelchairs and beds, in my business, are sold through the same channel, to the same people, to the same customers.
Consolidation of your industry. As an industry consolidates, you should become a much stronger player and improve your sales and margins. Improved profitability is consistent with improved market share.
In order for marketing and human resources to succeed in making the workplace a brand-defining space, a company must first uncover its brand, says Kelly Borth of GREENCREST.
This is Leap Day, Feb. 29, and the first Gratitude Monday and time to ask, when is the last time you actually showed appreciation to your clients — and meant it? As legendary coach John Wooden once said, “Although thanks is a rather simple one-syllable word that too often is used without true feeling, when used with sincerity no collection of words can be more meaningful or expressive.”
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