by Philip Beyer | Jan 5, 2019 | The Organizer Blog
Systematizing a business is NOT for everyone! Truth is, some business owners shouldn’t waste time systematizing business processes they will never use; and, in fact, don’t like. Nor will they ever have their employees use the systems. Over the years, I’ve preached...
by Philip Beyer | Dec 27, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
The Business Axiom of Systematic Management changed my life when reading just two chapters of a well-known business book. The axioms contained in its pages took me on a 30-year adventure of spreading a gospel of business management using well-designed systems. Equally...
by Philip Beyer | Dec 14, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
Some people apply the old adage, “before the rooster crows,” to various circumstances, without fully understanding its meaning or importance. I believe a great use of it would be a predictable event in business! The old saying came from a two-thousand-year-old story...
by Philip Beyer | Oct 29, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
“Buck Private” is military slang for a person of the lowest rank, always “bucking” for promotion to rise in authority without real accountability. Similarly, Buck Private Management in business is an owner subordinating leadership to a lesser-experienced and...
by Philip Beyer | Oct 13, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
The usual reason some business owners seek to hire a business coach is, because their business is faltering. Typically, desperation has set in and they make a hasty decision to hire a savior. At this point, they tend to use a loosey-goosey, Russian Roulette method in...
by Philip Beyer | Oct 6, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
Business Evolution is the process of growth, expansion and advancement of business entities, due to direct intervention of management. This contrasts with the scientific theory of evolution that contends, life advances due to the survival of the fittest over eons of...
by Philip Beyer | Sep 26, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
Any small business owner will tell you, one of their most time-consuming activities is hiring and training new employees. Interestingly, owners rarely conceive of giving that task to someone else. In fact, training trainers on all processes, like employee orientation...
by Philip Beyer | Sep 22, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
If you had to guess, what would you say the Number ONE reason was for business screw-ups? Specifically, what’s the main reason for stupid errors, dumb reoccurring questions, unclear communications, employee un-civil war and blunders? The reason may surprise you!...
by Philip Beyer | Sep 22, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
The top business topic discussed in business magazines, blogs, videos, seminars and conventions is SALES. Moreover, “sales” is usually the MAIN focal point when business owners enlist business coaches and consultants. Why? Think about it, it’s often said, “Nothing...
by Philip Beyer | Sep 15, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
Customer Service as Art may be a bridge too far, when considering a memorable analogy. However, studying the efforts some companies make, and the thousands of dollars they spend on recruiting and training CSR’s, there’s a case to be made for this analogy. I like the...
by Philip Beyer | Sep 8, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
What is the plight of perpetual proximity management to a small business owner or manager? In other words, what’s the outcome of having to constantly be present, hovering over employees, with up-close management? Did you know people hate constant up-close management?...
by Philip Beyer | Sep 1, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
I received a call this week from one of my favorite clients (I’ll call him Jim), who has become a close friend over the past few years. Jim couldn’t wait to tell me he had sold his business, adding that the intangible asset my company had helped to implement played a...
by Philip Beyer | Aug 27, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
Scary dreams, from which you wake up in a cold sweat, are rare for me. However, I do have the occasional dream where I’m fighting business buffoonery, and that can cause me to work up a lather. I must admit, it seems a little unfair that Paul McCartney of the Beatles...
by Philip Beyer | Aug 20, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
Systematize a small business!? This sounds formidable, intimidating, complicated… not to mention, time-consuming. Folks, it’s NOT complicated, but it does take some time and effort. However, it pays huge dividends! With today’s tools you don’t have to reinvent the...
by Philip Beyer | Aug 13, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
Over the past twenty years, I have heard about all the business fables that facilitate small business failure. These failures manifest first as daily frustrations, caused by poor business systems, due to lack of knowledge. Sadly, business frustrations tend to keep...
by Philip Beyer | Aug 6, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
When you don’t know what you KNOW, that’s a sure sign of purposeful Business Blindness! Comparatively, when you don’t DO what you KNOW to do for your business, consider yourself either BLIND, BURNED-OUT or maybe… uh, STUPID? Sorry to be so blunt. Some small business...
by Philip Beyer | Jun 18, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
What is a Quality Manual? A Quality Manual is an authorized document created by a business, detailing how its quality management system operates. In other words, it’s a Table of Document Contents and all features contained in a Quality Management System....
by Philip Paul Beyer | Jun 11, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
“Philip, I did it! I got rid of my sacred horse! My friend Kent could always make me laugh, but he was serious this time, which made it all the funnier! He has become a very special client and also a good friend. When he called me last week, excited about getting...
by Philip Paul Beyer | May 28, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
Your business could be teetering on the edge of oblivion… steeped in chronic chaos, without a lasting cure for business disorganitis! Business Disorganization is hard to cure, especially if you don’t recognize the symptoms, or are in denial that you even have...
by Philip Paul Beyer | May 6, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
Sticky Business Systems that keep working continuously require much more than just organizing work processes with a few printed forms, verbal instructions, and/or installing simple Management Software. Implementing sustainable businesses systems—systems that...
by Philip Paul Beyer | May 1, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
To find the root cause of problems and bring order to your business, you must “peel the onion.” Triumph systematically, using the Five W’s – WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE and WHY. In journalism, those Five W’s make up the basic formula for telling the...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Apr 24, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
A lack of control systems can cause chaos and un-civil war in small business! Think of it. Your day starts off well enough, then suddenly there’s a major argument. Worse, a knock-down, drag-out fight between two of your staff in production or right in the front...
by Philip Beyer | Apr 17, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
Small business organization is not for the faint of heart! Just starting and sustaining a small business places a person in an elite group. In fact, people who embrace small business organization via systematization are truly “rare birds”. About 13% of people in the...
by Philip Beyer | Apr 10, 2018 | The Organizer Blog
Are you frustrated enough with your current software to consider Customized Software? In other words, does your current software lack features you wished it contained, with a unique process of flowing and handling the WORK the way YOU envision—the way YOU like it?...
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