Employees are often the greatest challenge to the
entrepreneur. In most cases limiting employees limits your
opportunity. Employees can prove the single largest distraction
from the important work of entrepreneurship. In all my years
working as a supervisor, manager, business owner or consultant the
single most common thread that runs through all businesses with
employees

Date Published: Mar 25, 2011 - 10:12 am
Rural communities are drowning. Children are leaving never to
return. Their historical town squares are falling in and burning
only to be replaced with gravel parking lots. A majority of those
with great ability and opportunity chase opportunity, opportunity
they don’t see in their rural hometown community. Centerville, Iowa
was no different. What happened? Due

Date Published: Feb 03, 2011 - 2:39 pm
Most of us spend some time thinking about our future and consider
goals. Here are three possible resolutions whether for the
New Year or for your business. The start date doesn’t
matter. Sooner is better than later. There is never a
better time than the present to start doing more to take control of
your

Date Published: Jan 03, 2011 - 9:51 am
Why not consider some different resolutions for the New Year?
Here are three possibilities to consider that promise to improve
your brain and life while not impeding your eating habits. Number
1: Read or listen to a book that is completely different than
you would typically choose. Habits and addictions are
mentally stimulated by having

Date Published: Jan 03, 2011 - 9:41 am
When a person becomes unemployed and is allowed benefits they are
required to make two job contacts per week to maintain their
benefits. At one end of the spectrum there are people pushing as
hard as they can to find a job. They are visiting prospective
employers, sending out resumes, networking and volunteering to
increase

Date Published: Dec 29, 2010 - 8:21 am