by Paul Mobley on May 19, 2008
For an innovation to be successful it needs the support of all areas of the company. This often requires a leader to pull together resources and champion the project (including allowing other people to take credit). Innovation is a team sport. Also, the act of collaboration not only makes the innovation more likely to succeed [...]
by Paul Mobley on May 14, 2008
Recently, I received an e-mail that appeared to come from Bank of America Commercial Accounts. It appeared to me to be an attempt to gain private information. So it was forwarded to BofA and received back an e-mail saying they were investigating. They also provided some good tips that I thought would be useful [...]
by Paul Mobley on May 12, 2008
Today, the price of a first class stamp increased to $0.42 (a 2.44% increase). Gas responded, “That’s cute” (SNL: 05/10/08).
I’m curious about the impact that fuel and other raw materials has on small businesses. I know a few businesses who use UPS instead of having their own driver for local deliveries. Sometimes product is shipped [...]
by Paul Mobley on May 6, 2008
Small Businesses are tough to grow. Mainly because you need to hire people and they naturally do things differently than you. So in order to have everyone new do things the same way as the founder you need to define the process. This is a tough thing to sit down and do. Often it will [...]