Privately owned companies are increasingly recognizing the value of having a formal Board of Directors to help owners/managers navigate the dynamic business world we live in today, to get truly independent thinking and the benefit of a trusted outsider’s...
We have a client that has been coming out of a revenue decline induced in part by COVID 19, and they’re now in the black and growing nicely. But their accounting team has consistently been below an acceptable standard for performance. So when we started working...
You’ve got a solid business that sells on credit and makes a nice profit doing it. That assumes, of course, that you get paid substantially all of your accounts receivable, even though some of your customers may want to use that money elsewhere, and others would...
To my Board director friends: How do you guide long range thinking without overstepping your job description? I am a longstanding board member of a mid-sized nonprofit organization that is about to develop their next strategic plan – a 3-year look into the future of...
This article was first published about 20 years ago. It’s even more relevant today: Leadership is the art of inspiring people to undertake an adventure in the pursuit of a common goal. Management is the disciplined process that provides the infrastructure that enables...
