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 Jo Buchanan | Mar 10, 2020 | General Interest, Uncategorized
COVID-19 – Impact on small business Jo Buchanan, March 2020 COVID-19 itself needs no introduction, but we do need to talk about it’s potential and impending impact on small business. This virus is surprising for the transmission and...
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 Cynthia Ong | Nov 28, 2018 | Featured, General Interest
We’ve recently had an expert sales consultant and long-time friend of Castaway visit our workplace to complete an internal sales health check for us. In the process of reviewing and improving our practices and methodology, he reinforced that results are produced where...
