On my last post I talk about the importance that the CEO of a SME knows about some legal subjects. Big companies have the financial muscle and the necessity to hire lawyers that are specialists on different subjects, but small and medium companies don’t always have it. This is the …
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Nothing is Impossible! – Much more than a Cliché
Before I started to write this article I had an inner debate with myself about how to name it. On the one hand, I had the idea I should call it “Nothing is Impossible”, which is the tittle that prevailed. However I also wanted to name it “Everything is Possible”. …
Read More »Subjects every CEO of a SME must understand (accounting)
When we create a company generally one characteristic it has at the beginning is that we cannot hire many professionals, first of all because it is not justified by the amount of work but also because we don’t have the financial resources to do it. However not being aware of the …
Read More »Good Account Keeping as the Basis for any Successful Organization
In Colombia, my home country, there is a colloquial phrase that I’ve heard elderly people say. I can translate the phrase as follows: I like my “accounts clear and my chocolate thick”. The first part of this sentence talks about good account keeping and the other one is about hot …
Read More »Education with comprehensive profiles for professionals
It is truth that when we graduate as professionals it is more what we don’t know that what we know. The reason is that with professional careers that last 4 or 5 years we are not going to be able to learn every single thing we need for our work …
Read More »Innovation helped by Internet
In the last couple of decades, entrepreneurial innovation has been linked to the Internet. Although one can argue that every day new innovations emerge that have nothing to due with the Internet, it’s also true that Internet is playing a main role in the appearances of new types of innovations. …
Read More »The communication problem on companies
Day by day I convince myself more about the importance of communication on companies. Many times when we have employees and they commit mistakes in their tasks, we think it is their fault because they are not following our instructions. However I think the easiest path is to blame the …
Read More »Constantly innovating to achieve success
Depending on the degree of innovation of companies, I’ve come to the conclusion that you can divide them in three main groups. The first group is reserved for those companies that never apply innovation to their business. These companies might have been innovative when they started, but that was it. …
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