Tag Archives: creative thinking
Business Plan vs Business Model Canvas
A Business Model Canvas is a more visual, dynamic, action focused and activity driven tool for business owners than the traditional business plan. Continue reading
Proud of The Lean Startup Progress
The Lean Startup movement is becoming less of a fad and more of a mainstream methodology shared among business leaders. Continue reading
Dealing With Rejection – A Change in Perspective
As a business owner, have you experienced rejection? If gave up every time someone said we couldn’t do something, we would never get anywhere. Continue reading
Experiential Learning in Small Business and Entrepreneurship
There is a missing piece in the way small business owners acquire knowledge. Why is there not a structured and scientific experiential learning model for existing small business owners? Continue reading
Billing by the Hour
Is the productivity of every hour of work the same? Are the first 2 hours of the work day as productive as the last 2 hours of the day? Continue reading
Expert Knowledge as a Product
For business owners looking to improve employee relations and motivation, there is so much expert knowledge readily available as a product, and often for free. Continue reading
Soft Skills for Business
I was at a meeting last week, where the idea of increasing the soft skills training in the business community might help the region grow. So what are ‘soft skills’? Continue reading
A Video is Worth 228 Pages of Words
If you want to create a system of how to do one of the routines of your business, why not just video you or an employee performing the system and load to a private link on YouTube? Continue reading
The Virtual Office of the Future is Now!
The virtual firm is becoming a more common reality. We at The Business Therapist® Inc. are certainly living the dream. Continue reading
Carrots or Sticks – How Do You Motivate and Engage Your Employees?
In the best selling book, The Carrot Principle, by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton, they report that the practice of recognition in the workplace achieves a higher level of employee motivation and engagement. Continue reading
