Lauterback Consulting

08/30/2021

September is the real start of the next business year. Read: Back to Business 2022. What’s Next? Take These 3 Steps Now!

  September is the real start of the next business year. How different will this year be, and how prepared is your company to compete and prosper over the next several years? Running proactively is how to operate under control in uncertain times. You do it by engineering the three…

11/03/2020

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07/30/2020

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A crisis, one more powerful than 9/11 or the Great Recession is causing widespread economic consequences that most small companies, here and around the world are simply unprepared to manage. Complacency from our elected officials to our own lack of business contingency or continuity planning, has ta...

06/23/2020

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We still know little about what life, recognizable society, and the condition of our commercial markets might be like in six months, a year or five years. People need qualified information to make decisions. Right now, it seems like we're all on our own as business leaders in finding accurate…

06/07/2020

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Is your Business Inside or Outside the Circle ?

The fundamental question in preparing your post Covid-19 business future is whether your industry is “inside or outside” the circle of sustainable industries. Slow recovery is predicted for most retail stores, restaurants and other social establishments; while stay-at-home enhancements from land...

04/14/2020

Important Info for Small Business Owners
Consider sharing this link with business leaders that may not have a comprehensive plan for securing today and "Coming Out Stronger" when this world-wide intermission is over: https://bit.ly/3acSSIx

03/31/2020

While the Takes a Out

  Right now, here and around the world, it looks as if life, commerce, people will remain in a significant isolation period for a while. The small business leaders I spoke with last week all express great concern for the sustainability of their enterprises. Although no one knows when our…

02/28/2020

Moving away from command management

  Most often the private companies I advise are run by very talented and thoroughly capable owners. Although their work gets done somehow, unlike their counterparts in bigger, many of these leaders have put themselves at the very crossroads of almost all that happens at work every day. As a…

11/01/2019

Keep It In Your Head/You Might Lose It All

Many leaders of some of the most successful private businesses have relied on their own instincts, creating operational processes as they went along. However, at every turn few took the time to quantify the process. This approach works extremely well, until it doesn’t. As the famous philosopher Mi...

10/22/2019

If you are a business owner looking for new growth or a complete turnaround of your business, I have a solutions for you. I was interviewed by Martin Daks of NJ BIZ and you can read the short interview here

Consultants help companies to launch and expand By: Martin Daks September 23, 2019 12:01am When a member of a family-owned northern New Jersey manufacturing company grew worried about succession-planning issues, she put in a call to Steve Lauterback, a Morristown-based small-business growth and turn...

06/26/2018

5 Steps to Better Controls for Your Small Business
Taking insights from over 200 client assignments, here are the 5 “most-importants” to aligning your operations with the practices that can end many of the daily little emergencies that plaque lots of small operators like you and me. Read more...

In many of these businesses daily tasks are done from muscle memory rather than in documented steps generally found in multi-level organizations.