A look at the benefits and downfalls of owning a franchise and starting your own business.

“Begin with the end in mind,” says Stephen Covey in his book Seven Habits of Successful Living. Those who have created a successful business know it does not happen without planning, hard work, and a little luck. Yet most have no plans for leaving their business, ever.
Entrepreneurs are optimists, but all of us will stop [...]

-Organize your team around specific goals.
You should organize your teams to achieve specific goals. Don’t just throw a team together without a clear purpose for the team. For instance, you might want to have a cross-functional team at your site if your organization is large enough. A hospital site could well use [...]

New employees can be a reliable source of information for a company. Most companies ignore the wealth of information that new employees are likely to bring from their previous experiences. As a result, a lot of valuable information gets swept away in the process of incorporating the new employee into the company.
New employee surveys can [...]

You’ve all heard the old joke about a consultant being someone who uses your watch to tell you the time, and then steals your watch. There’s some truth to the story: consultant recommendations are often the same things that your employees or customers have been telling you all along. But while you will listen to [...]