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Minimum Wage Increase 2021

Is a Domino Effect Caused by Increases in the Minimum Wage? Talk of raising the federal minimum wage is in the news again. We may think industries that pay their employees at or near minimum wage will be the only industries effected. Businesses such as hospitality, retail and restaurants. Could there be a domino effect to other industries that pay ...
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Covid Affects 2020

Covid Affects 2020: How a Small Business Consulting Firm is Dealing with a Messy 2020 What a mess 2020 is turning out to be. We are battling the Covid pandemic. We’ve had an election that seems to have added to the stress level of our society. Many people and small businesses have been negatively affected in a variety of ways. ...
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Why Small Businesses Should Innovate

Small businesses should innovate to increase revenues and diversify revenue sources. Sometimes it is a matter of survival. Small business innovations may not have the world-wide impact of Amazon, Google, Boeing and the like, but the innovations can have a positive impact on the business and niche markets. Definition of Innovate Innovate simply means to challenge the status quo and ...
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Small Business Crisis Management

A Story About Surviving a Small Business Crisis This small business crisis story comes from my days of owning a manufacturing company that was heavily reliant on the energy sector for its business. The price of oil plunged below $20/bbl in 1998 causing great stress on my business. It was not an easy process to make it through, but we ...
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How to Size Up Your Business

How to Size Up Your Business and Determine a Path Forward How has business been going for you? If business has not been going too well, perhaps it is time to size up your business and determine a path forward. The first step is to have a detailed look at your current situation. To do this, perform a current state ...
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SWE Presentation

Greg Conder Presenting on Creativity and Innovation – January 23, 2020 In association with the Tulsa Society of Women Engineers, Greg Conder will deliver a 1-hour presentation on a system for creativity and innovation. The presentation is open to all. This is a free event. Date: Thursday, 1/23/20 Time: 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm Location: Arrowhead Consulting, 5314 S Yale ...
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Christmas 2019

Merry Christmas 2019 Merry Christmas from Conder Business Solutions! I hope you had a great year. This is a good time of year to take a break and reflect. Business has been good for me this year, but Christmas is a time to reflect on giving. I do enjoy working with smaller businesses. One of the benefits is that I ...
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Decline of Capitalism and Enterpreneurship

Why Capitalism and Entrepreneurship are Declining | A Small Business Perspective  Let’s start with the basics and build from there. At the very basic level, capitalism is an economic system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit. Whereas socialism puts control in the hands of the state (government) with a goal of providing ...
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Evaluating Risk in the Decision-Making Process of a Business Leader

Considerations should be made in evaluating risk for the business and the business leader. Decision-making process guidelines for business leaders and owners arereadily available. Below is a summary process from Chron that is pretty typical. These are excellent guidelines, but I would like to dig deeper into evaluating risk.   Perhaps your problem pertains to growing your organization. Perhaps you ...
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Creativity and Innovation Workshop Set for August 28, 2019 in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Businesses and organizations need creativity and innovation to solve problems and develop ideas for new processes, methods, services and products. At this half-day workshop, we will look at business titans such as Apple, Pixar and others for creativity and innovation concepts that can be scaled and modified to fit any size and type of business or organization. Outline of the ...
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