The day is only just beginning but you find yourself staying at your computer in a funk of despair. Sitting down and doing a full day of work seems impossible. You can’t get any tasks started, you find the people around you annoying, you feel tired and beat down. You just want to go home and cry.… read more “Beating The Grind: Business Cheat Sheets”
Author: Joel Gross
Joel Gross is the CEO of Coalition Technologies.
Operant Conditioning For Employees: Business Cheat Sheets
Download the cheat sheet PDF for operant conditioning here.
An employee who started with a good attitude working at Coalition had his performance degrade over time. As his work performance became worse and worse, I came down on him harder and harder. I spent at least twenty minutes a day in special meetings with him trying to tell him what he was doing wrong and what he should be doing instead.… read more “Operant Conditioning For Employees: Business Cheat Sheets”
126 Hours Worked Over Last 12 Days
A sample of the life of an entrepreneur:
I have worked 126 hours over the last 12 days. This is on the conservative side as this is time spent in my chair at my desk or in meetings.
How To Write A Business Contract – Business Cheat Sheets
Please note before I begin that I am not a lawyer and these tips on how to write a business contract are not legal advice. Download PDF file of image below here.
Are you just getting your business started and want to avoid spending thousands of dollars on a lawyer but are afraid to write legalese yourself?… read more “How To Write A Business Contract – Business Cheat Sheets”
Lindsay Lohan Should Not Be Sent to Jail
Surprise, surprise. I am actually going to defend Lindsay Lohan on my blog.
Lindsay Lohan was arrested in 2007 after getting caught drunk driving twice. Much more recently, her alcohol detecting bracelet determined that she had been drinking. The circumstances surrounding this incident are incriminating: she had just attended parties after the MTV Music Awards.
I have had experience with alcohol detecting devices, including ones that use the same technology as Lindsay Lohan’s alcohol detecting bracelet. … read more “Lindsay Lohan Should Not Be Sent to Jail”
Management Retreat
We had our management retreat last weekend and got a ton of work done. We met all day Saturday and Sunday – about 7-8 hours of meeting each day. We had fun though too since we drove down to San Diego and went to a Padres game and a nice dinner.
American Healthcare Rips Off Patients
Due to a lack of customer knowledge (because customers don’t get the direct bills, insurance companies do which just spread cost out over time), the American health care system is very badly broken. Read about this guys $68,000 acl surgery including $376 per minute hospital room.
Productivity Tricks: Business Cheat Sheets
Download the Increasing Productivity PDF here.
As a business owner, you need to put in a lot of hours of work every day to help grow you business into a success. Malcolm Gladwell pointed out in “Outliers” that it takes 10,000 hours of focused dedicated practice in an area to become an expert in an area.… read more “Productivity Tricks: Business Cheat Sheets”
Living Life Now
I am an expert at delayed gratification. I have spent most of my life working for the future and putting most of my time and effort into bettering myself mentally, financially, and physically. I think that that actually has led to a much better quality of life overall, but in some ways I was limiting myself by not doing as much fun activities.… read more “Living Life Now”
A Century of Brotherhood
I am 29, Jordan is 27, Justin is 25, and Josh is 19.
Combined we have 100 years of life between us.
I think this deserves some sort of celebration but I am not sure what. Ideas?