Small Business Managers

To successfully manage a small business, you need a map. Information of where you have been and where you are is vital to get to where you want to be. At every step of the process you need to gather information. Cost accounting is how you know where you are.

Wonder why things are the way they are. If you get in this habit, you become more tolerant of the people and processes around you. It is an excellent way of preventing mediocrity.

The areas that are hardest to control are the borders between functional areas. People are different that is why they choose different professions. By building communication points into your processes, you can help your staff to understand each other and provide better service to your customers.

No matter what you produce make sure you know how it benefits the people who use it.

Classical economists, all the way back to Adam Smith and his pin factory, have talked about moving work to where it can be done best. The internet opens up many more ways for work to find the most the most efficient producer.

Let someone else handle the complex tasks, you need to get back to doing the real work of your business.

Some of the benefits of Web Based software applications.

Rotate your way around limitations.

Don’t gather info if you can’t or wont act on it.
Don’t gather info if the gathering is more expensive than the savings.
Gather the info for the areas that give the highest rate of return.
Gather at the proper detail level, a 10 point survey has too many points.

Four years of Preventing Mediocrity. Key concepts on improving small businesses.