Make Money Off Your Competitors

Want to Make Money Off Your Competitors? The restaurant chain TGI Friday created a unique and fun restaurant for all age groups and they commanded market dominance with literally no competitors and solid profitability for many years. Applebees went head-to-head with TGI Friday by targeting the same consumers. They created an attractive brand name, copied […]

The Biggest Problem in Business!

Driving up Highway 5 in California, headed for a vacation in Lake Tahoe, it’s 105 degrees outside, and the road is a smoldering 120 degrees when we get a flat! I get out to look the situation over and realize it’s blistering hot, dangerous with trucks speeding by, and I have a problem! I’m in the […]

How to Be a High Performer

Do you know how to be a high performer?  What do these and other highly successful companies have in common? McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Best Buy, Apple, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Facebook, Kentucky Fried Chicken, JCPenney, Oracle, Whole Foods, Microsoft, Uber, Ford, and others.  It so happens that average people with no college degree started all of them. If […]

Nothing But Big Macs And Starbucks

Nothing but Big Macs & Starbucks If we spent a week together traveling the world, living on nothing but burgers and coffee from McDonald’s and Starbucks, what would we learn about business? Well, if we asked the right questions,  we would learn something like, ”How can you get your business to consistently deliver your products […]

The Three Biggest Excuses in Business

THE 3 BIGGEST EXCUSES IN BUSINESS   In an interview about success, billionaire Mark Cuban was asked about his secret to becoming rich. Cuban said that he dismisses people who make excuses, claiming success requires a lot of money, connections, or education. He said most people who win do so because of their willingness to outwork and […]

The Secret to Perfect Hiring

If only you could see through candidates and know exactly if they will fit your company. But you can’t, right? Wrong— you can! Here is one of our tools used to prevent clients from making hiring mistakes. It allows us to identify the person’s strengths. The chart on the left is a desirable candidate, the lines are […]