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Measure What Matters!!

Having goals gives everyday tasks more meaning and clarifies the reasoning behind company decisions. Goals are an important part of running a successful business. They can give businesses a clear focus, motivate employees and set targets for the business to work towards. Setting goals ensures employees are working toward a shared vision and can help keep everyone accountable. They can also provide businesses a set of criteria to see if the business is succeeding. Without a true north, the pieces of a business may work at odds with each other. Business leaders will not know how to prioritize their resources, and individual employees may struggle to use their time effectively. To achieve success with organization’s most ambitious goals, we need each of our departments and the teams within them all pulling in the same direction.  Traditional Goal Setting In traditional goal setting, goals set by top managers flow down through the organization and become sub goals for each organization

Why is personal debt bad

Debt allows individuals to make purchase today by pledging some of their tomorrow’s earnings. Is there anything wrong with having a little - or a lot - of debt? That depends on what the debt does for you - and it should always be more than what you do for the debt. Will this debt pay me back more than what I put in? After you factor in principal repayment, interest payments and the alternative uses of that money, does the debt still make sense? Are you getting all your money back and then some? Could you have done something better with the time and money you are investing? Debt can be "good" if it has the potential to increase your net worth. Bad debt is money borrowed to purchase depreciating assets or assets for consumption. Any time you take out a loan or charge something on your credit card, you are borrowing from the money you hope to earn in the future. You never know what changes may happen in your income, so it is better not to mortgage your futur