As many of you know, Business Ready is all about helping small businesses get ahead.  Lately I’ve been working with a lot of companies that are starting to contract very “big company” people to provide guidance.  Now, by big company I mean individuals whose work experience reflects the ten years they just spent at that [...]

Recently I was asked to read The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lenioni. This management book has an interesting approach to providing content. Instead of preaching about his life experiences, what has worked, what hasn’t worked, Lenioni opts to illustrate his ideas in the form of a fictional [...]

During the spring 2007 ACETECH Symposium in Whistler, once again Verne Harnish’s book Mastering The Rockefeller Habits was making the rounds as the must read how-to guide for successfully growing your company. Inspired by the book Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Harnish provides his observations of key fundamentals, or habits, [...]