business practices

Running a business can be a complicated balancing act at times. Not only are there many different things to think about on a continual basis, but it may be difficult to stay on top of everything as well as you like. While this is understandable, it is still important to make sure that you are taking all the steps you can to improve your business so that it can see success. If you are looking for some straightforward ways to help ensure that you are making the right kinds of improvements to your company, then here are some things to consider. 

For many American adults, work and stress have become synonymous.

The American Institute of Stress reports that about 25% of employed Americans say they feel stressed at work, and 40% say their jobs are very or extremely stressful.

Accountability is not a dirty word.

Thinking about being held to account for something certainly doesn’t make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. “Yay, please ask me, in the middle of a meeting of my peers, where that report is that I haven’t finished yet. Bring it on! “

A newly wed wife came home from work one day to find her husband had prepared a roast.  She was thrilled, but puzzled: he had cut the ends off the roast before cooking it.  In her sweetest possible voice she asked, “Sweetheart, I notice you cut the end off the roast.  Any particular reason why?”

Busy preparing the rest of the meal, he replied, “That’s the way you cook a roast.  I learned from my mother”.

In the same way that the San Francisco Bay area will be read about in North American history books—or history apps, rather—Bangalore is creating historical tech waves in India. That country’s first certified B Corp, eKutir Global, is shaping that tide. What started as a vision to empower small farmers and shareholders with tech solutions for planting, selling, and connecting has developed into a tool used by big name corporations to increase efficiency and directly connect with their supply chains.