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20 Questions with Jason Stom

Jason Stom, president and CEO of Clear the Air Cooling & Heating in Friendswood, Texas discusses his company’s history, his father’s legacy and the importance of enjoying what you do.

Find & Leverage What’s Right in Your Workplace

Appreciative Inquiry is a model of organizational development that asks leaders to shift to a positive perspective by examining the things an organization does well and thereby leverage its innate strengths to outweigh its limitations.

Reputation: The Real ‘R’ in CRM

Even if the concept of managing customer relationships was the premise for the CRM industry, the actual result is little more than a tool to oversee an employee’s progress with customers and prospects.

Motivate with Money

Bonuses and incentives without targets are like playing football without end zones or scoreboards. Set the exact results you want your employees to achieve and measure them to design your incentive program.

Empower Your Team to Lead

As the leader of your business, you’re the guide, the director, the manager. By your communication and direction, the team around you listens, follows and executes the goals of your company.

Do you have a Collection Problem?

The Receivable Days ratio tells you whether you have a collection problem or are heading toward one. It lets you know how quickly you’re being paid, and whether you’re being paid on time.

There’s No Leaning In On A Unicycle

As an independent businesswoman, running small companies and working with hundreds of businesswomen across the country, I know our experience is different. As women, we lead differently, often with the desire to bring more balance and compassion to our working world.

Tops in Trucks 2014: Bold, Brilliant and Memorable

The 2014 Tops-in-Trucks Fleet Design contest winners were simply brilliant — showcasing clean design, legible text, eye-catching graphics, clean layouts and strong colors.

Cruising the Strip and Turning Heads

Sometimes, generating leads is as simple as putting your name out there in a memorable way. Three HVACR business owners share their unique take on mobile marketing.

How Fleet Management Can Help You Run a Better Business

Having GPS is different from having a GPS fleet management system — it’s the difference between the ability to simply get turn-by-turn directions and an intelligent business solution.

Are Your Employees Productive?

Even if liquidity ratios are stable or increasing, showing increasing profitability, compensation percentages may show a different story. If compensation percentages start to increase, there’s a productivity problem.

Work Together to Avoid Sibling Rivalry

The team approach to management and leadership is growing in popularity and appeals to the new generation; but it also comes with a few hurdles to overcome.

Protect Your Fleet with Built-in GPS

Built-in GPS tracking for fleets bring the benefits of a navigational system without the hassles of a separate piece of equipment, allowing companies to confidently send out drivers at any time and to any place

20 Questions with Winston Hancock

Winston Hancock discusses Gilman Heating & Cooling's long history, the need to transition marketing to a professional firm and the importance of training and education.

Competitive Positioning

Your competitive market position should be among the first steps when starting your business or reviewing your plan.

Don’t Let Your Sales Managers Sabotage Your Training

Your frontline sales managers have more influence on how your salespeople sell than anyone else. If sales managers don’t believe, your sales team won’t believe.

Do You Have Too Much Debt?

Like the liquidity ratios, it’s the trends that are important. The goal is to get your debt to equity ratio stable on a monthly basis.

Get More Time for Your Work and More Work from Your Team

Asking good questions is critical to freeing up your own time and increasing your team’s ability to think and solve problems without you.

Clarify Management Roles and Expectations

The most important aspect of managing expectations is to have real conversations. Talk about the issues in a way that takes emotion out of the discussion.

Two Heads Are Better Than One

To get people to make more decisions and take on more responsibility, give them a system that allows them to do most of the deciding themselves.