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It gives you deep insight to pricing… to production costs… and to profitability… and 9 out of 10 business owners don’t understand it and how to use it…

The statistics are depressing: A January 2016 Gallup daily tracking survey showed that only 32% of workers are engaged. Only 49% of employees would recommend their current employer to a friend! (Glassdoor Data Labs, December 2015.) A Deloitte University Press article stated 87% of companies cited culture and engagement as one of their top challenges….

I recently sat down with Tara, a business owner, who was having trouble with the marketing pillar of her business. She had made it a goal to get new clients and her marketing department head had a ton of ideas on ways that they could market the product line and get the word out, but…

Originally published on Inc.com.David Finkel, bestselling author and CEO of Maui Mastermind, has been a regular contributor to Inc. Magazine for over a decade. This article is one of his latest pieces featured by Inc. When you first launch a business, it’s easy to handle everything in an ad hoc way. You respond to customer…

Originally published on Inc.com.David Finkel, bestselling author and CEO of Maui Mastermind, has been a regular contributor to Inc. Magazine for over a decade. This article is one of his latest pieces featured by Inc. While it’s essential to give your team a voice, being an effective leader requires maintaining control over decision making and…

We have talked a lot about hiring and finding good prospects lately and the topic has resonated with quite a few of you. We are all looking for ways to tap into the talent pool and find good, quality prospects. Today, I wanted to go into a little more depth about what it’s like to…

The labor market is tight right now, and as such a lot of business owners and entrepreneurs are struggling to find good talent for their businesses. And even if you enlist the help of a recruiter to find your candidates, at some point you are going to have to interview the top contenders themselves, and…

The labor market is tight right now, and the candidate pool is shrinking by the day. It seems like everyone has a job, and in order to find and recruit good talent you have to figure out a strategy on how to lure them away from their current position. As a business owner, this can…

For a majority of business owners, hiring and finding great talent is one of the most difficult parts of owning a business. You know the basics of hiring and have read all you can on the topic to help prevent the common hiring mistakes. But you may still struggle when it comes to your particular…

Originally published on Inc.com.David Finkel, bestselling author and CEO of Maui Mastermind, has been a regular contributor to Inc. Magazine for over a decade. This article is one of his latest pieces featured by Inc. Meetings are essential for any organization—they are platforms for communication, collaboration, and decision-making. However, not all meetings are productive, and…