by Jim Schleckser | Apr 12, 2019 | Business
It turns out there is a better way. One of the big issues every leader deals with on a daily basis is finding ways to motivate their people. It’s often a question of what incentives they can employ to get people to engage and perform to their optimum levels. The...
by Jim Schleckser | Jan 8, 2019 | Budget, Business, Customers, Entrepreneur, Leadership
I recently received a fancy fitness monitor as a gift. It tracks my heart rate as well as a bevy of other stats about my body, everything from how much I sleep, how well I sleep, to how my heart rate changes during exercise. The amount of data now at my fingertips is...
by Jim Schleckser | Dec 12, 2018 | Business
It’s Easy to Get Lost without a Roadmap When I reached a certain point in my career where my success had given me some resources to work with, my dad gave me a great piece of advice. He told me, “You can now do anything you want to. But, you can’t do...
by Jim Schleckser | Oct 16, 2018 | Acquisitions, Business, Entrepreneur, Private Equity
In today’s market, if you’re contemplating selling your business you’re probably thinking of finding a strategic buyer for your business because they are likely to pay the most money. But there is a ton of money in private equity, PE, firms these...
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 | 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...
