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A heartbreaking story about time and money.

Berkonomics

First, think about your time as money! How about young or pre-revenue companies? Time and fixed overhead: [Email readers, continue here…] That relationship between fixed overhead and production time is as critical as any other factor in the success of a young company. We’ll get to my heartbreak in a minute.

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The best things about your company board

Berkonomics

For weeks, we’ve highlighted both good and bad things about boards of directors for your company (or non-profit.) Boards provide or see to it that there are resources for the company (especially money) to operate. The board selects, monitors, helps, and oversees compensation for the CEO. Normal functions of boards.

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Are you meeting your customer’s expectations?

Berkonomics

A new product launch… If you’ve been involved in the launch stage of any product in the past, you should recognize the overwhelming feeling of panic when initial customers make first contact with complaints about quality, functionality, speed of service or other critical part of the new release. What if my resources are limited?

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you.

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Do you even need a business coach?

Berkonomics

Everyone, even seasoned CEO’s can use a good coach who knows how to bring out the best in a person, is knowledgeable about the business process, and who has an extended list of relationships to call upon to fill needs that become obvious in the coaching process. Business coaches come in all sizes and shapes. It is worth asking.

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It’s about time!

Berkonomics

Enterprise time, as opposed to personal time management, is defined as the sum total of resources available to a company expressed in terms of time – time to develop, to debug, to produce, to deploy, to respond to issues, and to make changes in plans that are not working. Email readers, continue here.]

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The Scarcest Resource at Startups is Management Bandwidth

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The 3rd-party tries to sell your software – they just need your help with tech assistance to close the deal. I always tell teams I meet with, “The scarcest resource in your company is management bandwidth. Sorry if you received an email with a draft version of this post. .” It never does. My advice?

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