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Know Your Number

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Know Your Number

Know Your Number

Only God knows.  You never know when someone might offer you an unexpected sum to buy your business or organization.

Would you sell it?  Would you keep it?

Many moons ago, I learned of someone who was offered an untold amount to buy his business.  It was a large sum.

The offer would be passed up.  And many years later, the M & A (mergers & acquisitions) market would not be friendly to the industry.

Should the person have sold when he ...

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7
DEC
0

Categories: Blog, Business Consulting, Business Development, Business Growth, Leadership, Management, Selling a business

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SALY

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SALY

SALY

A short title, yes.  But, it’s a short title with big implications.

What is SALY?

SALY is not the name of your sister, mother, wife, or girlfriend.  After all, it’s not even spelled correctly.

SALY is simple: It stands for Same As Last Year.

Where did SALY Come From?

SALY is a term I came across ages ago when I was discharging my duties as a CPA.  I was privileged to work with a firm called Coopers & Lybrand – a Big Eight firm.  Back ...

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29
NOV
0

Categories: Blog, Business Growth, Business Process, Business Process Consulting, Business Startups, Management, Management Action Items, Startups

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Becoming Top of Mind – a Case Study

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Becoming Top of Mind – a Case Study

Becoming Top of Mind

Rick wasn’t just another smart computer guy.  He is a really smart computer guy.  It’s just that only some people knew it.

Rick has experience spanning decades. He was and is the “go to” guy for large municipalities that need his help establishing and maintaining extensive computer networks.

But, with a heart as big as Texas, and computer knowledge out the wazoo, he wanted more.  He wanted to help more people.  He wanted to focus on helping ...

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7
NOV
0

Categories: Case Studies

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A Primer on Hiring

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A Primer on Hiring

A primer on hiring

When I was little boy, the neighborhood kids would play cowboys and Indians.  The Old West wasn’t too far a distant memory back then.  And, if you are in the politically correct crowd, don’t get too excited.  This article isn’t really about cowboys and Indians.

It’s about an idiom: “Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians.”  This translates to “Too many managers and not enough workers.”  And, let’s address this right away.  This article doesn’t insinuate that mangers ...

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15
SEP
1

Categories: Business Consulting, Business Process, Management, Replicate

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Three Reasons for Engaging Blue Elevator ™

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Three Reasons for Engaging Blue Elevator ™

Three Reasons for Engaging Blue Elevator™

At Blue Elevator™, we maintain the bias that no one can truly see themselves.

Here are the three reasons you should consider engaging Blue Elevator™:

  1. Left unattended, your business could be headed towards a plateau and then, an eventual decline.  This is the essence of life.
  2. To help avoid this plateau, it is imperative that you affect innovative change.
  3. To help create innovative change, and because it’s hard to see ourselves, it is important that you obtain skilled ...
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11
DEC
5

Categories: Accelerate, Blog, Business Consulting, Business Growth, Business Process, Business Process Consulting, Innovate, Replicate

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Ready to Engage

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Ready to Engage

Ready to Engage?

In a preceding article, Business Consulting – Then and Now, we made the case for cutting-edge business advisory.  We finished with the question: Are you ready to engage?  Generally speaking, the answer is usually “Yes!”

  1. “Yes, let’s go!”
  2. “Yes, I would like to, but … things are slow right now and I need to close a few more deals so I can build some cash to start work.”
  3. “Yes, I would like to, but ...
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31
OCT
1

Categories: Blog, Business Consulting, Business Growth, Business Process, Business Process Consulting, Business Startups, Leadership, Management

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Business Consulting – Then and Now

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Business Consulting – Then and Now

Business Consulting: A Recent History

For the past four decades business consulting has been associated with three phenomena:

  1. A business owner comes to realize his business is broken.  He can’t fix things and he is finally ready to ask for help.
  2. A C-level executive (or Board of Directors) decides to hire an outside business consulting firm to validate his opinion.  Or, he needs to hire a scapegoat for some difficult decision the organization needs to make.
  3. A business needs to implement a new process ...
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29
OCT
1

Categories: Blog, Business Consulting, Business Process, Business Process Consulting, Management

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Vision and Leadership and Effectiveness – Oh My!

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Vision and Leadership and Effectiveness – Oh My!

Vision and Leadership and Effectiveness – Oh My!

Vision and leadership and effectiveness are the proverbial lions and tigers and bears of business and life.  All are big things in and of themselves – even more so, when taken together.  Whether you are a student, a solo entrepreneur, or the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, all these are necessary for success.

Vision

Vision is where you want to go.  Every successful endeavor must have an end goal in mind.

Where there is no ...

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2
OCT
0

Categories: Blog, Business Process, Business Process Consulting, Business Startups, Management, Management Action Items, Startups

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The Three Secrets to Business Success

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The Three Secrets to Business Success

The Three Secrets to Business Success

Would you want to know the three secrets to business success?  For as many people would want to know, some would not.  The reason is, knowing the three secrets to business success would impose upon you the implied responsibility to act.

For to know, and then not act, would mean that you would have intentionally missed the mark.

Do You Want to Know?

If you are among those that do want to know, ...

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11
JUN
2

Categories: Blog, Business Development, Business Growth, Business Process Consulting, Management, Marketing

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Help Wanted or Not?

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Help Wanted or Not?

Help Wanted or Not?

When It Comes to Getting Help, There are Three Types of People:

  1. People that don’t believe they need help.
  2. People who know they need help – but are afraid to ask.
  3. People who know they need help – and are willing to ask for it.

We ALL need help.  I need help.  You need help.  Chances are, you make a living helping people.

  • Taxi drivers drive.
  • Accountants account.
  • Chefs cook.
  • Pastors shepherd.
  • Painters paint.
  • Plumbers plumb.

It is a blessing to be able to help people doing something ...

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7
JUN
0

Categories: Blog, Business Growth, Business Process, Management

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