Right now, here and around the world, it looks as if life, commerce, people will remain in a significant isolation period for a while. The small business leaders I spoke with last week all express great concern for the sustainability of their enterprises. Although no one knows when our world will head back to […]
Moving Away from Command Management
Most often the private companies I advise are run by very talented and thoroughly capable owners. Although their work gets done somehow, unlike their counterparts in bigger, many of these leaders have put themselves at the very crossroads of almost all that happens at work every day. As a small business consultant, I have […]
What would you do if you weren’t afraid?
Most new client onboarding begins with an initial “discovery” step, a 70-question discussion covering topics around; what they sell, how they function internally, their industry’s outlook, the ways they find customers, a leadership profile and more. Like providing a medical history at the doctor, the method allows the participants to quickly get to the […]
Keep It In Your Head/You Might Lose It All
Leaders of some of the most successful private businesses have relied on their own instincts in creating the support processes every company requires. It’s the manager that eats up time sticking with old “we always did it this way” systems, who miss the opportunities that come with staying close to the core objectives of the […]
A Different Kind of Grower
Consultants help companies to launch and expand By: Martin Daks September 23, 2019 12:01am When a member of a family-owned northern New Jersey manufacturing company grew worried about succession-planning issues, she put in a call to Steve Lauterback, a Morristown-based small-business growth and turnaround advisor. “She told me her brother [the owner] had been running […]
Only 4 Roads Assure Business Sustainability
If you run a business experiencing shrinking sales, employee compliancy or operational inefficiencies, you’re not alone. Although more small companies are growing than ever before, many more are lagging for reasons that are easily corrected. A handful of factors account for most of the problems in smaller companies: A lack of effective operational processes […]
