Every business is different and the real estate needs of a manufacturing business differ significantly from those of a service company with similar top line revenues. This makes it difficult to create any kind of realistic benchmark as to where a company’s real estate costs should be, but a complex question can be reduced to some simple fundamental concepts. | | | |
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“Hey Steve Davies, I trust your well.” This is the start of an e mail I got from somebody I hadn’t spoken to in a while. I was puzzled and figured that he meant he would buy water from me if he was passing through a drought zone. Then I realized in a flash of clarity that he must be enquiring about my health. Ah, the power of punctuation. | | | |
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From time to time, people write or say things that misuse words, punctuation or spelling and create an unintentional funny meaning. They are reproduced here with the response I would like to make…if I wasn’t so polite and courteous. If you have any you would like to add, e mail me the mistake at
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and the response you would like to have made (or did make) and I’ll publish them with your details and a link to whatever site you’d like. |
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One of the things I hear most frequently from business owners is that their employees have no common sense. Next in line behind that is that they are not committed to the business because they don’t do the things they should. | |
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When somebody starts a business and needs to start hiring employees there is a temptation to bring in family members to fill the open slots. You think you know who they are and feel that you can trust them….but do they have the talent and experience to do the job you expect them to perform? | |
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Companies don’t plan to fail, they simply fail to plan. Many of the small to medium sized business owners that I meet have traditionally paid very little attention to planning. It is difficult, the thinking goes, takes resources and is not necessary for their business. It is something that large companies do. I’ll put aside for now the question of whether those large companies got large by planning in the first place and start by taking a look at the validity of the other three objections and suggesting some techniques for overcoming them. | |
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Current work trends are that we emphasize flex time and encourage staff to work from home but most owners and managers do a poor job of stopping their employees homing from work. It used to be that for people working 9 – 5 there were certain things that they had to do during business hours. Now that we live in a 24/7 environment that is no longer as true; there are still some personal things that can only be done during the work day, but the vast proportion can now be done from home. | |
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