Posts Tagged ‘ Employee Compensation ’

The biggest little problem I have heard lately is employees texting on the job.

One text message is no big deal.  You lose a minute or so of productivity per text message.  But what happens when someone receives and sends 30 text messages an hour as they carry on at least three conversations?

For some business owners, starting their business is their opportunity to live their dreams. For others, the dream is what comes after the business.

There are some simple steps you can take to get the most future value out of your current business. It is all about how you structure your business.

The federal government is very interested in you paying for your own retirement.  There are some wonderful tax incentives to get you to set aside money for the future.

Let’s face it, Social Security is not going to pay much to anyone in the younger generation. (Like it pays that much now!)

Money motivates.

But once you pay enough to get money off the table, money doesn’t matter that much.

Once you do that, what really motivates is being autonomous, the satisfaction of skill and mastery, and making a contribution to the world around them.

Check out Daniel Pink’s book: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.

Have a watch. This is well worth 11 minutes of your life:

You know you need to work on your business plan.  Do you work on your job descriptions?

You need to have training from day one that you bring someone new to your team so they know the whole structure of the business and how their role is important.

What happens to someone who no longer makes the business money?