In Search of Optimal Order in Business

Optimal Order
We encounter many owners of small-to-midsize businesses who are in search of optimal order. Unfortunately, most of them are looking for a “quick fix.” Although there is NOT necessarily a quick fix for disorder, there is a SIMPLE FIX! As always, we make clear to owners...

Revising Reality in a Business

Revising Reality in a Business
Revising reality in a business becomes necessary when the real truth of function prompts cover up. Especially, if it operates like most small businesses! REALITY, for most small business owners, is a never-ending struggle to maintain control of operations by...

Labor in Order to Rest

Labor in order to rest
To all small business owners, salespersons, and managers: Please come to ORDER! Make no mistake, the secret to stress-less success is to LABOR IN ORDER TO REST. To be clear, you must LABOR diligently, purposefully, relentlessly to bring systemic ORDER to your...

A Primitive Printing Proprietorship

Proprietorship
A primitive proprietorship called Tex Lyon’s Printing altered my life’s course; leading to the development of tools for totally systematizing small businesses around the globe. Walking into that very small print shop for the first time at age fourteen; somehow, I knew...

Is Your Business Eating Itself?

The mental picture of a business eating itself is troublesome. For me, bringing to mind a promo poster for JAWS!  Yet it’s a daily occurrence in most companies. Make NO mistake; it’s NOT an uncontrollable disorder, because it is totally preventable. However, when...

Revelation to Revolution in TQM

Revolution in TQM
One of the pioneers, whose revelation for fixing quality issues in production and service, leading to a revolution in TQM (Total Quality Management), was W. Edward Deming. Deming was an educator, lecturer, author, and an internationally renowned consultant. He also...