“We hate keeping track of time,” the business owner told me, shaking her head. “We really suck at it. But I want to how efficiently our employees are working. I’d also like to see how our billable hours stack up against our competitors. Isn’t there another way than tracking time and labor dollars?” What I …
Read moreIn my work with clients, I frequently hear some variation of “I’m working way too hard for too little money.” Most of our clients are long past start up, so the speaker is often someone who’s running a well-established business. The type of company that outsiders perceive as successful, stable, making it. But when I …
Read moreI’ve been reading a lot about CEO pay lately. You’ve maybe read the same articles about the impending SEC requirement for disclosing the ratio between CEO pay and the median salary at those same companies. At Walmart the ratio was 1,133:1 for 2014. Starbucks came in at 669:1. UPS delivered a 533:1. Obscene numbers. And …
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