Critical Factors

07/24/2022

So now, according to Janet Yellen, two successive quarters of negative GDP growth is not a recession - the very definition of a recession.

07/17/2022

I've done everything I can to stay away from social media for the past year or so because you can't really say ANYTHING without offending SOMEONE. But I simply can't hold back anymore. Everything the government is doing with regard to inflation is a complete lie. It doesn't take my degree in economics from Harvard to figure out that the highest expense for a business is its payroll. Therefore, when unemployment is low, we have to pay higher wages and therefore charge higher prices. Low employment equates to inflated prices. That's number one. Higher gas prices also contribute to higher prices because it cost us more to transport goods including receiving our supplies. And our suppliers are in the same boat as us. So now, to even merely suggest, that the potential for a recession is because they didn't raise interest rates soon enough is an out and out lie. There is no way that I believe that Larry Summers, who was president of Harvard, is that stupid. I listen to him and think - maybe you should have been taking some of the classes I was taking instead of being the political hack that you are. Raising interest rates is going to put us into a recession. A recession, by definition, is two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. When you put all of the small businesses out of business, guess what's going to happen? We are going to go into a recession, if not a depression.

06/20/2017

Otto Warmbier should have been returned on day one. Agreed. So what about the other 3 Americans being held?!

06/16/2017

If I were President I'd be outraged, beyond anything you could imagine, about what happened to this kid at the hands of North Korea.

05/18/2017

Truly shocked and saddened by the loss of Chris Cornell. RIP.

01/12/2017

I invite you to simply check it out: http://ow.ly/vH5I307Wtl1

Over the past 10 years I have consulted with a wide variety of companies in diverse industries while seeking to acquire a company that was...

04/25/2016

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...there is a big difference between knowing how to DO something and knowing how to run a company that does what you do.

04/25/2016

http://www.theperformanceimprovementplan.com/inspire-excellence-entire-team-2/

I recently wrote about how to Achieve Your Full Potential Through Level 3 Accountability and cited the Harvard Business Review article relating that 70% of ALL employees are demotivated and disengaged. Common sense dictates that a demotivated person is less productive than a motivated person. And yo…

04/25/2016

http://www.theperformanceimprovementplan.com/inspire-excellence-entire-team/

...the number one MANAGEABLE means of increasing profitability is to inspire excellence by giving employees a sense of accomplishment...

04/25/2016

http://www.theperformanceimprovementplan.com/achieve-level-3-accountability/

Accountability is obviously critical to the success of any business. After all, every business strategy has to be executed through people.

04/25/2016

http://www.theperformanceimprovementplan.com/considering-sale-company/

Studies and surveys conducted by universities, government organizations and the media are revealing some startling – and occasionally stark – statistics about the state of business in America today. Among the more incredible realities facing business owners today is the fact that, as the last of the…