Fire Yourself
Nigel Skeffington hired his replacement so he could work on getting the business, while the new Managing Director Peter, his younger brother, could work in the business to run it cost effectively.
Find Time To Work On Your Business – Not Just In It
Find 30-Minutes a Day with a Time Log
“Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you
with a profit beyond your sweetest dreams; and that waste of it will make you dwindle
alike in intellectual and moral stature beyond your darkest reckoning.”
William Gladstone, English Prime Minister, 1850
Our Expert Guide: Ray Anderson
For 25 years Ray Anderson has been helping small business leaders get their company right by first getting their people right. He helps business leaders understand their own leadership and behavioral styles, and then helps them design and select the team they need to realize their vision. Creating the right organization (direct reporting or virtual) and then putting the right people in each role is central to success because then the team is stronger than any individual on the team, including the leader.
Ray founded American Business Concepts in 1993 for the express purpose of helping organizations implement his “gray collar” staff development principles. Gray Collar Concepts help organizations bridge the employee-management divide.
As a result, Ray’s client’s save millions of dollars using Gray Collar Concepts to improve organizational leadership, strategy, customer focus, knowledge management, staff development and process improvement. Gray Collar Concepts integrate simple problem solving concepts that blue collar workers can be passionate about learning and applying to keep the business profitable, keep their jobs and create a career ladder. These same principles apply in a virtual world of collaboration between vendors and strategic partners who already have an entrepreneurial mind set.