No B.S. Ruthless Management of People and Profits: No Holds Barred, Kick Butt, Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Really Getting Rich

by Dan S. Kennedy

Their tolerance for being annoyed or disrespected goes to zero.

hospital marketing (most of which simply sucks and is mind-blowingly stupid).

We do not, however, put the cats in charge of the care or training or motivation of the racehorses.

But it’s worth noting he only made a two-year commitment.

And make no mistake: While the cat’s not watching, the mice are at play at these websites,

Many of my clients are entrepreneurs with small offices, with one to several employees.

They falsified their work, defeating its purpose, skewing the results.

When shown they were caught, they were unashamed.

create a “productivity-only workplace,”

with distractions removed.

Second, the cat must neve...

Every exception weakens your rule. Through every loophole leaks productivity and, thus, profit.

People who read my No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs

I make a seven-figure income from writing,

and I am not a bestselling novelist

But I would not care about popularity. Only about productivity.

You have to teach people how to manage their time, access to them, and communication with others in a productive way.

You have to teach it, then require it.

They do not know how to do this. They won’t ...

Most people prefer frequent interruptions and distractions to nose-to...

Most people prefer casual communication over organiz...

Get a copy of the novel Lord of the Flies for a chilling reminder of what happens when children a...

You can’t presume anybody you have or bring into your business has the faintest idea or, for that matter, passionate ambition about being as productive and profitable

an employee as possible.

Taking away or restricting use of toys is part of the management for productivity and profit equation.

In the workplace, people need to grasp that they are there to work;

they have no right to expect privacy.

Whatever they’re doing is your business as long as they are doing it at your business...

In the workplace, Big Brother has to watch. The cat must never be away.

Washington State University researchers found that workers who knew

they were being watched got more done, but weren’t as happy!

here’s a secret: Your really good, honest, productive employees, few by ratio, hate the bad, dishonest, unproductive slugs.

The good ones are thrilled when real enforcement with real teeth occurs. It doesn’t make the good ones unhappy. Only the bad ones.

You also need to “raid” your employees’ work spaces when they aren’t there.

A third way to keep tabs on things is to let good mice, pardon the pun, rat out the bad mice.

and finally in this hit parade, a clerical employee who was copying the office’s customer and lead files every week and selling them to a competitor for cash.

the owner had to sort through bogus reports of misconduct left on the recording by spiteful employees just seeking revenge against others for various slights.

Finally, a fourth strategy is to actually be there and manage your business, these days something of a radical concept.

A lot of business owners seem more interested in being on the golf course, at the beach, at home, playing with their kids, hanging out at Starbucks

and everywhere else but at their business, doing everything e...

Well, I’m all for fun in the sun, and I urge business owners to organize their businesse...

I also urge business owners to stay away from the business some of the time, to do important, high-value work—like creati...

I’ll keep saying it over and over and over again: If you insist on having employees at all, then you have to accept the responsibilities that come with them.

Leadership, management, AND SUPERVISION.

You just can’t beat what Tom Peters called MBWA: management by walking around. Listening in. Joining in and doing. Seeing and being seen.

most business owners spend way too much time working in their business rather than on their business.

However, there are just as many who sin by not working in their businesses at all.

Some even avoid working in OR on their businesses!

The right balance varies business by business. But as a big-thumb rule, I’d say the ratio ought to be about 75% working on the business, 25% working in the business.

In all businesses, it’s useful for the owner to at least occasionally do a bit of all the work, so he knows what it takes, can’t be easily fooled, and everybody knows he knows.