by Jo Buchanan | May 11, 2020 | Featured, General Interest
If I’m ever asked to share one piece of business advice – just one – it would be Assume positive intent. If I’m ever asked to share one piece of personal life wisdom, it would be the same thing: Assume positive intent. I’ve called the approach different things over...
by Stephanie Mellick | Jun 26, 2019 | Featured, Forecasting
I heard this early on in a phone call with an accountant recently. He was one of 3 partners in a small suburban firm. They’ve been around a while, and have built a decent client base focused on small businesses. The largest client has a touch over 6 million revenue....
by Jo Buchanan | Apr 29, 2019 | Featured, General Interest
My colleague sent me this message today: “Can you grant permissions to Zapier for my Teams account? I’m going to try to see if we can send to the US Slack channel” There’s no issue with the request, or how I would manage it, but when I read this...
by Jo Buchanan | Apr 12, 2019 | Castaway News, Featured, General Interest
Can the business of fitness teach the fitness of business anything? The fitness of business. Is it so different from the business of fitness? I don’t think so. Having been proudly involved in both, I can say they correlate in more ways than you think. This week we...
by Stephanie Mellick | Apr 10, 2019 | Castaway News, Featured, General Interest
“The task of a leader is to get people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry Kissinger, diplomat and former US Secretary of State So, you’re a business owner, turning over somewhere between $5 and $30 million? You have a rough plan of attack for...
by Stephanie Mellick | Mar 29, 2019 | Featured, Forecasting
Will your cashflow support your new business idea? According to Census data in the USA, more than 40 percent of all small businesses started up for under $5,000. Sixty-four percent of entrepreneurs in a recent Intuit survey started with less than $10,000. However,...
