I just spent a jam-packed 5 weeks – 2 weeks planning, arranging, organizing, fighting-for and getting ready for my trip; 2 weeks traveling, meeting people, navigating and learning; and 1 week jamming a month’s worth of work to meet the 30 April accounting deadline. I built time into my travel schedule. I had several overnight [...]
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Time and Space to Think
Posted by Frances Schagen on May 3, 2012
http://youreffortlessbusiness.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/time-and-space-to-think/
Predictability v Spontaneity
I am traveling for these 2 weeks ending tomorrow. Parts of my trip have been very carefully planned and executed, while during other parts, I have winged it. All of it has worked out, sometimes serendipitously well. Some of the times have involved a little mail-biting. I don’t have all of tomorrow figured out yet [...]
Posted by Frances Schagen on April 21, 2012
http://youreffortlessbusiness.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/predictability-v-spontaneity/
Running a Business is like Raising a Teenager
Dr Rick Nason spoke at TEDxHalifax, Sunday about the difference between simple, complicated and complex. His examples were: sending someone to the moon is complicated. There are 100,000 steps that all have to work in sequence in order to be successful, but they can all be calculated. On the other hand raising a teenager is [...]
Posted by Frances Schagen on March 14, 2012
http://youreffortlessbusiness.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/running-a-business-is-like-raising-a-teenager/
Harvest – a predictably wonderful business
If you are focusing on predictability. environment, team and profitability does that mean you are not working on marketing, operations, HR and finance? Of course not. It does mean taking a different view of them: one that’s predictable, creates a great environment with a great team and that pays well. You can’t do that if [...]
Posted by Frances Schagen on March 11, 2012
http://youreffortlessbusiness.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/98/
More Small Business Discussion
The last post struck a nerve with a few people. Frank Smythe left a great comment about the opportunities for small and large business to work together more. He says that not all big business are bad. Great, I love discussion! First of all, I’m not saying all big business is bad. Just that, small [...]
Posted by Frances Schagen on March 7, 2012
http://youreffortlessbusiness.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/more-small-business-discussion/
Small Business is Not a Little Big Business
The role of big business is to increase shareholder value. Shareholder value is increased when the stock price goes up. Stock prices change with expectation, not necessarily performance. That means the company leaders are focused on managing public perception rather than making the company work well. Here is a link to an interesting discussion with [...]
Posted by Frances Schagen on March 6, 2012
http://youreffortlessbusiness.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/small-business-is-not-a-little-big-business/
Bringing in a new Team Member
How do you do that? How do you bring someone in and help them feel like they are part of the team? How do you do it quickly and efficiently so you can all get down to making a difference in the world? There are attributes all great teams share. KNOW EACH OTHER People in [...]
Posted by Frances Schagen on February 28, 2012
http://youreffortlessbusiness.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/bringing-in-a-new-team-member/
Should Your Team be Well-Balanced?
It’s not so that your team needs to be balanced. You need to know what your team’s focus is and what strengths are needed to meet that focus. The Barcelona Soccer Team squad are all the same and all with the team’s strengths. They are dominating their league. They force the other teams to play [...]
Posted by Frances Schagen on February 15, 2012
http://youreffortlessbusiness.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/should-your-team-be-well-balanced/
Who’s on Your Team?
This is a partial list of all the people in your life who are invested in you and your business. I hope this makes you realize you are not alone in your business, even if it’s only you. Family Cafe staff Caterer Stationary Store Owner Hairdresser Courier Postal Carrier Landlord Rotary club Chamber of Commerce [...]
Posted by Frances Schagen on February 1, 2012
http://youreffortlessbusiness.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/whos-on-your-team/
Start the Ball Rolling
I love checklists One of the first moves I made when I decided to work towards making my business more effortless (although I didn’t call it that back then) was to create a little checklist on an index card for the Crystal Clear Lunch & Learn series I was running. I listed the 4 things [...]
Posted by Frances Schagen on January 19, 2012
http://youreffortlessbusiness.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/start-the-ball-rolling/
Resources for Sale
The New Employee Checklist will help you welcome your new team member and have them hit the ground running faster.
