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Now, I can imagine there might have been times in your life, maybe even now, when you wonder how you're going to pay your bills next month, or how you're going to stretch your money until payday. After all, even top entrepreneurs are worried about this treacherous economy.

Perhaps you're even facing a challenge right now that's got you concerned — worried even. You have trouble going to sleep only to wake up each morning with the same problems on your mind as the previous day.

You will reap rich dividends if you follow this learning to the hilt. A SME needs people who think out of the box, are creative, and are perfectionists. For all critical roles, you need the BEST. So, unlike in large organizations where recruitments are conducted by the dozen, I believe SMEs should recruit only the BEST for critical roles, even if that means some delays in the recruitment process. Do not fall into the trap of recruiting people just to increase staff size.

Most of the people I meet these days nurture a ‘restaurateur’ within them. Some think that their wife is a great cook; some believe that since most of their friends eat out so opening a restaurant is a safe bet, and it’s easy to make those pot bellied chaps pay more. Plus, for any Tom, Dick and Harry, opening a restaurant is the easiest recipe to become a page 3 celebrity.

I kinda gravitate towards authors and speakers who can compartmentalise and think through complex problems and lay them out in easy steps. Somehow the “x number of steps” style takes out a lot of complexity and blows away a lot of the fog for me.

I am kind of a logical and systematic thinker so the “do this, then do that” makes a lot more sense to me than abstract and random thoughts

Improve customer satisfaction-and shareholder value-by giving customers what they want when they want and where they want it

 Inventory is the largest financial asset in retailing. It's all about having the right product in the right store at the right time and at the right price. If you manage your inventory well, you can reduce capital costs and achieve higher inventory turns (Rate of Sale) which results in retail success.