Business

The rise of the coronavirus has tested all of us in ways we never previously imagined. Small-business owners have felt a particularly...

No one enjoys conflict and confrontation. We all want to be liked and accepted, and very few of us enjoy hurting people’s...

For a myriad reasons, many small-business owners don’t hold regular staff meetings. Furthermore, most who do don’t get the most they could...

It isn’t the truly terrible employees who cause the real problems. Whether clearly incompetent or unbelievably lazy, they’re easy to spot. With...

If you’re like a lot of business owners, when you first started your company, you said yes to just about every job....

If your business is booming and you need to add staff, or you’ve had an employee resign, you face the challenge of...

High-performing employees are often the most valuable assets in a company. Customers, products, technology, inventory and many other assets come and go....

Relationships matter — not only in your personal life, but in your business life as well. Start with the obvious point: Long-term...

General contractors are increasingly pushing risk onto subcontractors, performing only project management or design/build services, rather than the historical model of providing...

Have you ever started to read a much-hyped book with great enthusiasm and anticipation, only to stop after a few chapters because...

Let’s clear up two things about artificial intelligence at the start. First, it’s a broad concept, not a specific product, in the...

One of the most recent implications of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is the complete overhaul of the W-4 form. With...

Some business owners are making decisions based on outdated trends and information. Let’s face it: It’s hard to keep up with the...

Each business owner’s definition of success is different, but one thing is true for everyone: Success means getting things done. Highly successful...

The Small Business Administration identifies a huge failure rate among startup companies: Roughly 20% fail in the first year. Roughly 50% fail within...

We’ve all heard the horror stories of great businesses utterly collapsing because the founders were good friends and the relationship turned sour....

Does it make more sense to own or lease equipment? Thanks to some newer and more innovative leasing structures, that question is becoming easier...