Grow Your Comfort Zone!
Robert Curry Grow Your Comfort Zone, it will help you improve as a Manager! Too many times I see Owners feel uncomfortable implementing a needed change in technology, people, mission, or the management team. For you and the company to grow personally and professionally, you need to step out of your comfort zone. Unfortunately, many owners stick More...
Are Your Employees Stealing?
Robert Curry Are Your Employees Stealing? – Employees stealing from their employer happens more common than you think. Recently, I met the owners of a small company to sign a listing agreement to sell More...
Weekly One-Page Flash Report
Robert Curry Weekly One-Page Flash Report – In every turnaround that I have ever worked on, I have always implemented my Weekly One-Page Flash Report. With this report, I know weekly everything that was going More...
5 Important Steps to Upgrade Your Organization!
Robert Curry I believe there are five important steps to upgrade your organization! Every time I start an engagement with a new turnaround client, the first thing that I do is assess the quality of the management More...
Hiring a First-Class Manager
Robert Curry Hiring a First-Class Manager. It takes time, a comprehensive plan, and money. This article is from my second book: “The Turnaround” and is a true story. My initial problem was that the sales More...
Every Hour Is Worth $250!
Robert Curry Every Hour is Worth $250 – As we all know, attorneys sell their time by the tenth of an hour times their hourly rate. Lawyers have to be sensitive to the level of work they do to charge their More...
A list of the Benefits of Micro-Managing your staff!
Robert Curry A list of the Benefits of Micro-Managing your staff! Before listing all the benefits of being a micro-manager, I will itemize a few characteristics of this management style. If these traits sound a More...
A 90-day Probationary Period for New Hires.
Robert Curry A 90-day Probationary Period for New Hires. Whenever I hire a new employee, I always use the 90-day probationary period policy. The 90-days gives you the chance to watch the employee and decide if you More...
Overtime is a Profit Killer!
Robert Curry Overtime is a Profit Killer! I have seen overtime pay kill companies’ profitability. The issue is employees will squeeze 40 hours of work into 50 hours, so they get paid time and one-half the last More...
Make Your Salespeople Hunters!
Robert Curry Make Your Salespeople Hunters – The very first turnaround that I did, I was the President/CEO of a computer distributor that sold hardware, software, and service. There were 17 salespeople More...
