When it comes to your employees, are you a good judge of character?   Here are a few tips to remember when hiring your team: Actions speak louder than words.  Watch what your employees do, judge by performance not by what they say they will do/have done. Give someone the benefit of the doubt.  It...

Be an employer your people trust and KNOW! Research shows that people are more likely to follow leaders whom they know and trust.  They are more loyal to employers they interact with and know something about.  As an employer, it is important to take the time to get to know your employees! Put down...

Lacking Legos for the Holidays Do you know which company was the biggest toy maker in terms of revenue and profit in 2014?Lego. This family-owned business beat out its rival Mattel partially because of the huge success of The Lego Movie. Lego is still owned by the Kirk Kristiansen family that found ...

I don’t care much about gambling. If I am in Vegas, I will play a few hands of blackjack. If I pay for my groceries in cash, I sometimes take the change and buy a few lotto tickets. But overall it is just not an issue I think much about…until now.This week the Georgia House […]...

When I started my job, my company provided me with a cell phone. I already had a cell phone and decided to keep it in addition to my work cell phone. I use my personal cell phone for personal calls and my work cell phone for work calls. Why? Privacy.It is very tempting to save […]...

Did you know that incubators, used to keep premature infants alive, were used in sideshows at New York’s Coney Island’s attractions? Nearly 100 years ago, the medical community rejected incubators developed by Dr. Martin Couney.So instead of giving up, Dr. Couney funded his work with premature b...