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Procrastinating about setting up a pension for your small business? Don't. Some easy options let you cheaply prepare for your retirement...and let you help employees, too.Easy Option #1: Don't Forget About A Regular Old IRAHere's the first thing to consider--even though it sounds like a wimp-out: Maybe you shouldn't setup a pension plan all at for your small business. Maybe you should just use an individual retirement account, or IRA, and encourage employees to do the same.You might e
3)It has become too easy to do other things while sitting in a meeting. People take their laptops to meetings and sit and do their own thing. So while one person is busy rattling off whatever it
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It's as if no one in an organization is capable of making any decision these days without having a series of meetings to discuss it. Even worse, this "meeting culture" that has invaded the hearts and minds of our businesses has created an army of employees who think that talking about work is the same as doing work.
So what can be done to try and stamp-out these seemingly endless meetings? Let's tackle the why first. I believe that there are three main reasons for the existence of this seemingly endless parade of lengthy and mindless meetings.
1) Meetings reduce individual responsibility and accountability. Instead of one person making a decision, that person can have a meeting and diffuse both the responsibility and the accountability for a decision.
2) Meetings make some people feel important. It gives them a sense of great importance to conduct or participate in meetings. The longer the meeting drags on, the more important these people feel.
3)It has become too easy to do other things while sitting in a meeting. People take their laptops to meetings and sit and do their own thing. So while one person is busy rattling off whatever it i
You’ve invested time and money in your business and want your Yellow Page ad to work. You and your YP rep designed an ad and think it’s pretty good. So you run it and sit by the phone. Before it even hits the streets, I can predict the results. Did you do one of the following things in your ad…Put your name, big and bold across the top?Place a stock photo of a truck or any other generic object in the ad?Forget to mention what makes you different from your competition?Use
It's as if no one in an organization is capable of making any decision these days without having a series of meetings to discuss it. Even worse, this "meeting culture" that has invaded the hearts and minds of our businesses has created an army of employees who think that talking about work is the same as doing work.
So what can be done to try and stamp-out these seemingly endless meetings? Let's tackle the why first. I believe that there are three main reasons for the existence of this seemingly endless parade of lengthy and mindless meetings.
1) Meetings reduce individual responsibility and accountability. Instead of one person making a decision, that person can have a meeting and diffuse both the responsibility and the accountability for a decision.
2) Meetings make some people feel important. It gives them a sense of great importance to conduct or participate in meetings. The longer the meeting drags on, the more important these people feel.
3)It has become too easy to do other things while sitting in a meeting. People take their laptops to meetings and sit and do their own thing. So while one person is busy rattling off whatever it
It is a well-known fact that more and more people are choosing to work from home rather than face the daily agony that is otherwise known as commuting. There are many companies that are even encouraging this practise amongst their permanent staff as a viable alternative to travelling to work.In most cities, workers will have to commute to and from the office, which depending on where they live could mean adding an extra one or two hours to their average day. At its very best commuting can be a tiresome an
So what can be done to try and stamp-out these seemingly endless meetings? Let's tackle the why first. I believe that there are three main reasons for the existence of this seemingly endless parade of lengthy and mindless meetings.
1) Meetings reduce individual responsibility and accountability. Instead of one person making a decision, that person can have a meeting and diffuse both the responsibility and the accountability for a decision.
2) Meetings make some people feel important. It gives them a sense of great importance to conduct or participate in meetings. The longer the meeting drags on, the more important these people feel.
3)It has become too easy to do other things while sitting in a meeting. People take their laptops to meetings and sit and do their own thing. So while one person is busy rattling off whatever it
So often people are quick to blame corporations and high-paying CEOs for any and all negative trends in the United States. Often they go so far as to blame capitalism itself. Generally these folks are socialists or have socialist leanings from an extreme liberal skew. They will often slide into conversations jabs at Corporate America and give away their negative view of capitalism and our current system. Recently an admitted Democrat Liberal stated:“As far as corporate America, providing a higher profit f
2) Meetings make some people feel important. It gives them a sense of great importance to conduct or participate in meetings. The longer the meeting drags on, the more important these people feel.
3)It has become too easy to do other things while sitting in a meeting. People take their laptops to meetings and sit and do their own thing. So while one person is busy rattling off whatever it
Everybody hears about how the medical billing industry is robbing us blind. Medical costs are out of control, or at least so they say. Medical billing software, just to be able to run your medical billing practice, costs an arm and a leg. Medical billing agencies like Medicare and Medicaid, Blue Cross, Blue Shield and even private insurance companies are ripping us off left and right. Nobody wants to pay claims, or at least that's the perception. But what's the reality? Does anybody who is doing the compla
3)It has become too easy to do other things while sitting in a meeting. People take their laptops to meetings and sit and do their own thing. So while one person is busy rattling off whatever it is that they want to rattle off about, other people are sitting there doing something else. This is a key reason why meetings drag on and on. There is no sense of urgency by the participants for meetings to end.
So now let's discuss what can be done to reduce both the number of and the length of the mindless meetings you must endure. The best way to reduce meetings to the low position on the totem pole that most of them deserve is to create an environment that encourages employees to enthusiastically accept accountability and responsibility.
In other words, give your employees the responsibility, the authority, the freedom, and the duty to do what needs to be done to make your organization a great success. Develop this kind of entrepreneurial mindset within your organization, and watch the mindless meetings begin to fade away.
That's the best way to make it happen, but there are several rules that you can implement immediately that will help you begin to stamp-out all those mindless time-wasting meetings. These rules may seem extreme to you, but they will work.
First, remove all the chairs from your meeting room. Remove the comfort factor from loungi
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