Look, there are literally an endless number of different ways to lead a company. But I can tell you with 100 percent certainty that people would much rather work for one of the last three types of leaders than the first three.

It’s a great time to look for a job! And in a weird way, a great time to hire people too.

It’s almost half-past 2021 and it’s business as unusual out there.

Here’s a fact about the owner of one of the world’s most successful appliance and electronics stores, which I know is true because I’ve been told the same basic story by both former employees and sales reps who called on his company.

A key to achieving business success is growth.

Whether choosing to grow within a market or extending reach statewide, nationally or internationally, businesses must expand continually. The opposite choice — to remain motionless — is to be resigned to stagnation and demise.

Your company is neither a not-for-profit organization nor a charity … so why do some of you insist on running it like one?

Records (especially ’80s glam rock) were made to be broken. It’s true in our retail world too.

I’m serious about that question. I’d really like you to take the time to consider exactly why you get out of bed every morning and go to your store.

The worst of the COVID crisis may be over, but BrandSource members remind us that the increase in fraudulent purchases that some had witnessed during the pandemic has yet to subside.

A service counter is often one of the first things customers see when they enter a store. It’s often the first point of reference.

Perhaps, if you think about it, you can remember the experience of having a first date.

This is the last in a three-part series on how to hold on to your best employees.

This is the second in a three-part series on how hold on to your best employees.

Finding and retaining good employees is one of, if not the, single biggest issue we are all facing today.