Business Success Insight: Live within your means

On Secret to Happiness in your real life is: LIVE WITHIN YOUR MEANS Keep your needs simple; enjoy small pleasures. Real value lies in what things mean to you, not in their cost  or how they are valued by others. This concept is also important to success in business.   While sometimes it is wise and sensible to take on debt …

Accountability

Ambrose Pierce, a nineteenth-century humorist, defined responsibility, as “A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.” Being accountable means accepting responsibility for who we are, and for our character, personalities, attitudes, and weaknesses. Even for our happiness. The …

Creating an Ethical Workplace Culture

Setting up an ethical workplace culture is more involved than drafting a values statement, setting policy or training programs ensure employees and vendors are knowledgeable about the rules.  Ethical workplace cultures are ones that make it far easier to do the right thing and much harder to do the wrong thing.  Unfortunately, the problem is many business cultures make it …