by Philip Paul Beyer | Oct 8, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
Grab one of our 10 Best Excuses for Business Disorder that we’ve collected from SMALL business owners. They are extremely helpful when customers and employees start complaining about errors and general pandemonium. To be sure, it’s much easier to use one of these 10...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Oct 1, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
Starting a small business in 1988, I came face to face with the biggest LIE in business history. In fact, I bought into that lie for a time, because other business owners, friends, repeated the lie. Moreover, they had no answers for fixing our operational struggles...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Sep 24, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
As a small business owner, “firefighting” (fires of chaos) was my daily routine, until learning that fires can’t live without a source. In fact, this known truth was life-changing when applied to our business, simply by changing from “firefighting” mode to fire source...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Sep 19, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
“Kick disrupters to the curb!” Sounds like a harsh statement, you might think, regarding certain employees. However, for the health of your company, employee disrupters need ousting! Have you measured the cost of a disrupter in your business? More importantly, do you...
by Philip Beyer | Sep 11, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
A Businessman Action Figure. What would it symbolize, but a man (or woman) of action? It would represent a business owner, a go-to-guy-for-everything—one relied on to get the job done like a superhero, albeit, just flesh and blood. Thinking there should be a...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Sep 3, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
A troubling trend among “small” business owners is, they’re too busy for better business organization! Fact is, many owners assume that small business can’t operate with the same sophistication as “big box” franchises. For this reason, many small business owners...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Aug 23, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
The number one unavoidable FACT for quality failure — albeit preventable—is FORGETTING. German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus studied this unavoidable phenomenon and, in 1885, established the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve that measures the rate of information and time...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Aug 16, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
The No. 1 reason for business owner burnout is simple and begins DAY 1. In fact, the “burnout syndrome” begins the moment an owner receives their first question from an employee; such as, “Hey Bob (Business Owner), can I have off next week, my brother-in-law called...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Aug 8, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
The reason why most management software stinks is, they lack certain key ingredients to solve a business owner’s dis-organizational frustrations! While featuring nice bells and whistles for tracking jobs and services, aka work, they leave the business owner high and...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Aug 2, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
A few weeks back, an excited former client called, having just returned from a month-long family vacation in Hawaii. “Your market focus should be, ‘systematize your business to sell it,” Bob blurted out. “What do you mean, Bob?” I asked. “Philip,” he said, “I was...
by Philip Beyer | Jul 23, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
A “quality parade” is the result of defined PROMPTS, creating a circumstance of order in business. In other words, it publicly displays quality service and products by an interacting group of systems, which leaves nothing to chance. Furthermore, it’s where QUALITY is...
by Philip Beyer | Jul 17, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
How to stop stupid business mistakes is as simple as ABC! In fact, the solution for stopping mistakes is so obvious, most business owners and managers simply dismiss it. For this reason, production and service mistakes keep reoccurring, resulting in high employee...
by Philip Beyer | May 31, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
Vanishing Vision is a common frustration among small business owners. It occurs when the excitement of owning their business fades, replaced with a sense of hopelessness, aka business failure. To be clear, it’s not a business failure, in so far as making money, but...
by Philip Beyer | May 3, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
Haphazard business decisions are the accepted “norm” in most small businesses. In spite of the fact, thousands of decisions for actions are necessary to correctly process some jobs and services. Some may conclude that making 1000 decisions to process a job or service...
by Philip Beyer | Apr 12, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
To implement Business Management software correctly, a systematic approach is KEY! Importantly, setting a goal and writing down step-by-step, the implementation process. The good news is—shown here is a how-to guide for developing a step-by-step implementation...
by Philip Beyer | Mar 19, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
Knowing the real cost of business management software and measuring ROI is important! However, knowing the life-changing benefits of good management software is more important. Direct-cost compared to cost-saving benefits are the statistics needed for measuring ROI...
by Philip Beyer | Mar 12, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
Bob, a burned-out, small business owner, is driving home one night after another hectic fourteen-hour day. Exhausted, he takes a few aspirin and collapses on his bed, falling into a deep sleep. Suddenly, a peculiar sound awakens him, and he finds himself face-to-face...
by Philip Beyer | Mar 5, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
A cry we’ve heard many times from small business owners and managers is how to ensure employee accountability in the workplace. If you are in management, then you know; as a rule, most people hate micro-management. In other words, employees don’t like someone...
by Philip Beyer | Feb 26, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
As a small business owner or sales manager, you’ve no doubt interviewed those outgoing, larger-than-life “personalities” disguised as business sales professionals. The ones with great smiles, who crack funny jokes, while promising an “amazing”...
by Philip Beyer | Feb 19, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
Extreme Business Organization reminds me of Extreme sports performers— “daredevils” we call them. To be sure, they do the most amazing feats. Audiences are thrilled to watch them defy gravity, death even, from high wires and other high places; being shot out of...
by Philip Beyer | Feb 12, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
Consistent Business Follow-up is sorely lacking in most small companies. How often have you heard someone say, “I’ll get back to you next week,” or “I’ll follow-up with you later concerning your issue?” And then nothing! Similarly, the most misused farewell line...
by Philip Beyer | Feb 5, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
One of Tennessee’s (also the world’s) most famous 150-year-old companies has quite an interesting Business Mantra. My wife and I took a tour of the famed Jack Daniels Distillery a few years back and found it extremely well-organized. Their business mantra is, “Every...
by Philip Beyer | Jan 26, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
A mystery that eludes most business professionals is, the WHY—a cause for their business system collapse. I discovered the simple truth, as to WHY, the hard way. Unexpectedly, in the process of my relentless tweaking of our written systems, I discovered the solution...
by Philip Beyer | Jan 22, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
Who would you say are the enemies of the state of business organization? Amazingly, business owners themselves are Business Organization Enemy No. 1. In other words, the owner is his or her own worst enemy; the one standing in the way of bringing order to their...
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