Check References or Hire the Wrong Person!
You have two choices, check references the candidate’s or hire the wrong person! A close friend, the President of a large university, told me a story about one of his employees. The employee was a full-time faculty member, who worked for him for over ten years. This person was a department head and had three diplomas on his office wall. They More...
Always Pay the Company’s Payroll Taxes First!
Always Pay Payroll Taxes First before you pay any other vendors, without exception. My client, after he signed the turnaround agreement, told me that he had a surprise for me. I shared with him that I hate surprises. More...
Accounts Receivable Collections – Improving Your Results!
Accounts receivable collections always seem to be a problem with most of my clients. An excellent procedure to improve accounts receivables collections is to have your collection employees call the clients earlier. More...
A Will, a Trust for Your Children, and Insurances
A Will, Trust, Life Insurances. Are you like many other people and don’t have a will, a trust for your children, and the proper amount of life, disability, and long term care insurance? For all my clients, More...
A Secret to Help You Get Back to Sleep
A secret to help you get back to sleep! There are many evenings that I go to bed and wake up in the middle of the night. After I come back from the little boy’s room, I try to go back to sleep but can’t. More...
Drill Sargent Manager
Drill Sargent Manager Drill Sargent Manager – Recently, I started a new turnaround consulting engagement. My client is an off-road vehicle supply company. The company manufactures, sells, and installs More...
Listen More During Interviews, and Talk Less!
Robert Curry Listen during interviews to learn more and talk Less! One of my clients was going to hire a young attorney to work for his law firm. He asked me to participate in the interview process. He told me More...
Look at Your Business With Fresh Eyes!
Robert Curry Look at your business with Fresh Eyes! – Early in my career, I was recruited to be the Corporate Controller for a large public company in Philadelphia. Two weeks after I started my job, the More...
Everyone in the Company is a Salesman!
Robert Curry This article Everyone in the company is a salesman is from my first book: “From Red to Black“ and is a true story about a real company. The service department was doing great – sales More...
Are You Working IN Your Business or ON Your Business?
Robert Curry Business Owners should learn to work ON their business. Recently, I met with a new client to talk about what he should expect with our business coaching relationship. Before I could share my coaching More...
