Using All Your Strength

January 30, 2009 · Filed Under Managing Tough Times · 6 Comments 

Note from Jan: This is the third in a series on managing tough times. For full benefit, I encourage you to read: 4 Musts for Managing Tough Times & Hunkering Down before reading this article.

So —are you using all of your strength?

The best success I’ve experienced with big budget problems (other kinds as well) came about by involving others.  Staff members always came up with far more ideas than I did on my own (one time we came up with a list of 100 ways to save money!). Plus they were much more committed Read more

Hunkering Down

January 23, 2009 · Filed Under Managing Tough Times · 7 Comments 

This is a follow up to “4 Musts for Managing Tough Times“.  Please read that article before hunkering down to read this one.

PLEASE.  Don’t just hunker down.  It’s important to take charge.  Stay out there.  Act boldly.  AND then just in case… hunker down.

And please don’t read this article until you have set an expense reduction goal. If you are one of many who wants to skip this step, please go back and do this first.  Otherwise you’ll just be burning (your time) while reading.

Got your goal?

Good.

It’s design time!

If your goal isn’t huge and if you haven’t already spent some time searching for them – it may be real easy to spot ways to cut back with little pain and just enough gain.

If not – then another line by line study of each expense category may do the trick if you ask yourself questions like:

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