By Eric Quach When you work for a rapid-growth technology company, you’re living in a fast-paced working world. As more people see value in your product, and for the industry itself, demand rises. It becomes even more critical to deliver top-tier products. It is imperative to challenge yourself to broaden and hone your skill-set in [...]
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Maintain Checks and Balances Using Control Procedures
You can have the best accounting system in the world but it won’t mean a darn thing if the data you input is bad. I can’t say it enough, “garbage in, garbage out.” It is the responsibility of accounting department personnel to make sure that transactions are valid and supported by audit trails. There is [...]
Don’t Get Blocked
By Eric Quach I am sure the majority of us, whether writers or not, are familiar with the ever impeding plight known as writer’s block. We have all been called upon to write something in our lives, whether it be a strenuous term paper or just a succinct cover letter. A lot of these situations [...]
Five Steps to Building a Super Team
By Leticia Rodriguez This blog was originally published in MSPmentor on June 11, 2012. The word ‘team’ is tossed around a lot in many businesses. The sales team, the engineering team, the marketing team — these are all great ways to describe the different groups that help make up a company. But when talking about [...]
Four Principles of Personal and Professional Success
Over the past month or so I’ve come across a number of articles that derive lessons from iconic movies and apply them to today’s business world. The first of these I read, “Five Career Lessons from Han Solo,” appeared in Forbes on March 29 and was one of the most read articles on LinkedIn. Another [...]
True Leaders and Like-Minded People: The Ingredients to a Great Work Environment
What does it take to create a really great place to work? A place where people want to be? An environment in which brilliant, highly motivated people can excel? It takes more than perfectly designed buildings and glistening new computers. It takes more than the usual things that all good companies spend a great deal [...]
Leading for Success: How to Motivate Your Team
This blog is second in the series “Leading for Success.” Motivating a team might be compared to creating a sculpture. The artist is able to see beyond the raw material to the potential in the mass, and then carefully carve away extra material to realize a fine piece of art. To extend this analogy into [...]
Office or Remote — Where’s Best to Work?
If I closed my eyes, I could picture myself sitting in my cubicle alongside my colleagues. With all the technologies and communication resources at my fingertips, although half-way across the country, I could be constantly connected. As technologies continue to advance, working remotely has become more common or even most practical for some people. The [...]
Sales Incentive Strategies for SMBs
Strong and consistent sales results are the driving force behind a successful business. It’s the revenue figures that determine a company’s value at the end of the day. And in order for you, as an SMB owner, to get those numbers up to the point at which you and your entire team can sleep well [...]
When Should You Make Your First Sales Hire?
After building and leading sales teams for several successful startup companies, I’ve learned a few things about when a company should hire its first sales person, what type of person to look for, and how to ramp them up with effective sales training and mentoring. If you’ve built a product or service, gained some market [...]