by Jim Schleckser | Sep 11, 2018 | Business
How Much Debt Can Your Business Handle? In my book, Great CEOs Are Lazy, I talk about how most great business models rely on very low or even no capital requirements at all. Rather, they can grow based solely on their high margins and the cash they generate through...
by Jim Schleckser | Sep 7, 2018 | Leadership
How they were graded on this can predict their ability to be good team members. There is a popular book series that’s based on the idea that everything we need to know, we learned in kindergarten. There’s some real truth to this. But I would like to take...
by Jim Schleckser | Aug 28, 2018 | Advisory Groups
Many business leaders make the mistake of believing that cost is the main factor when it comes to setting the price for their product or service. A common practice, for example, is to just take your cost and add a certain percent on top of that. Simple enough, right?...
by Jim Schleckser | Aug 17, 2018 | Business
It’s Not Just Harder – It’s 3 Times Harder Over my career as a business leader, I have done business in 27 different countries and just about every business I was involved in worked overseas in some capacity. So my piece of advice here today may seem...
by Jim Schleckser | Aug 14, 2018 | Budget, Entrepreneur, Growth
We’re about to head into budget season, the point in the year where everyone starts projecting what they’re going to do next year. As you go about setting your own budgets, consider a few words of caution: Don’t be a hero. What I mean by this is that...
