Category: Management

Time To Get Real About Finances

As the corporate tax deadline nears, hopefully your books are closed for 2009, and you can start to look at some of the data your bookkeeping efforts have yielded. If that’s the position your business is in, congratulations. If not please read on, you’ve got some work to do… Managing your business finances If you’re… Continue reading Time To Get Real About Finances

Steps In Accounts Receivable Collections

Making decisions on who to extend credit to, and collecting accounts receivables has always been a difficult part of running a small business, as the wrong decision or procedure for handling collections can have disasterous consequences. According to some pretty scary collection industry figures, less than 15% of past due items put in for collection… Continue reading Steps In Accounts Receivable Collections

Small Business Management | Delegation Mistakes

I hate to break it to you, but contrary to popular opinion (among small business owners), you can’t do everything yourself.  However, many business owners and professionals run into small business management issues because they just don’t understand the importance of delegation or how to do it right. In a recent post, I outlined the… Continue reading Small Business Management | Delegation Mistakes

Law Firm Management: Re-Designing Careers to Allow Personal Lives

Thanks to Sara Schaefer Muñoz  of the WSJ Juggle blog for another wonderful post entitled:  “Re-designing the career ladder“. There’s a new movement afoot that I for one am very excited about.  Obviously, it’s a reaction to the track that the business world has taken, but one well worth watching. A new base of organizations… Continue reading Law Firm Management: Re-Designing Careers to Allow Personal Lives

Business Leadership Coaching | The Importance of Vision

In an earlier post this week entitled Business Management Coaching | Leadership isn’t just for executives, I spoke about the role of leadership in small business, and listed some attributes that successful small business leaders have in common.  Today I’m going to talk about point #1, “They have a vision” In the small business environment, leadership isn’t… Continue reading Business Leadership Coaching | The Importance of Vision

Business Management Coaching | Leadership isn’t just for executives

If you ask a small business owner about business leadership coaching, chances are they will tell you it’s a subject for executives and CEO’s of large corporations.  But leadership is a powerful skill that has many significant applications in the small business environment as well. Here are some characteristics of successful small business leaders, in… Continue reading Business Management Coaching | Leadership isn’t just for executives

Business Management Coaching: Ten Tiny Tips For 2009

I recently came across a wonderful post by Guy Kawasaki entitled “Ten Tiny Things Every Small Business Owner Should Do in 2009” which basically asks those in business management to look at their companies as a customer would, to test out how well they’re doing.  Guy writes: On this, the last day of 2008, I… Continue reading Business Management Coaching: Ten Tiny Tips For 2009

Small Business Management Tips

Jonathan runs a small consulting business.  Like many typical small business owners and professionals, he often complains that there is either too much going on, or too little. When he’s busy, Jonathan finds himself working long days, nights and weekends, to the point of exhausting himself.  The perennial optimist, he always thinks that projects will take… Continue reading Small Business Management Tips

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