Job Descriptions - Not your newspaper's (or online) JD anymore...
A proper and effective Job Description serves a variety of purposes.
During one particular political segment, the station played a clip of John Boehner doing one of his “Jobs…Jobs…(It’s all your fault, Mr. President)… Jobs” rants. At that point, a question occurred to me: How many US jobs, now exported, did those three cargo vessels represent?
In this article, we will look at the next step to finding the way out of that quagmire - the Business Plan.
The Business Plan - Nonsense or Good Sense?
The Financial Plan as a crystal ball...
Overhead... Headache or a simple calculation?
Markup - Not getting what you think you are getting
Calculating the cost of overhead...
Pricing made simple... or is it?
When you thought of starting this business, what did you imagine your life would be like?
What did you dream of having?
Do you have the family or fun time you thought you’d have by this time?
Are you any closer to fulfilling your dreams than when you started?
Understanding the sales history
Normalizing G&A
Building a Financial Plan
There are three elemental areas of business – any business
The three elements are:
Sales
Operations
Finance
Describing and enacting a rational and balanced Employee Incentive plan that will result in a self-running business.
What do you want... really?
What is a reasonable Net Profit Margin?
A Rational Incentive Plan for Employees... "cost-free"
Here is a little ammunition and something to think about the next time you hear that raising taxes on "business" will stop them from hiring or squash their ability or willingness to invest or to upgrade their equipment or infrastructure.