Barbara Taylor runs a retail coffee and espresso business in Arkansas. She wrote a post in the small business section of the New York Times in June 2011, entitled Reaching Your Limits As A Business Owner. What she has to say about hitting a wall will resonate with owners of companies implementing EOS, the Entrepreneurial Operating System.
Delivering Happiness is Tony Hsieh’s (pronounced Shay) story of how he and a few close friends founded Zappos.com, which they eventually sold to Amazon for $1.2B.
Jay Goltz wrote an interesting blog post on 5/25/11 for the Small Business Section of the New York Times, entitled Not All Fixed Costs Are Truly Fixed. You can read the post here.
A friend of mine, the CEO of a professional services firm, recently gave me a copy of David Maister’s The Trusted Advisor (2000). Buy it here. Maister is the author of the best selling, Managing The Professional Services Firm (1993).
How is your business doing so far this year? Are you satisfied you are doing all you can do to insure your top line will grow or your bottom line won't shrink?
