“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their te

Accounting starts with the basics of money in – money out. But tracking that money can be fraught with problems, most often due to human error. It’s easy to be distracted in our busy business world and then lose focus on the accounting task. That’s when these tiny errors often happen.

So, how do you, the current leader, identify the next generation of leaders when you’re thinking about investing your organization’s time, money and energy? How will you know if they are the best choice?

What type of leader are you? By identifying your leadership style, you’ll better understand how to assist in developing someone else, what assumptions you bring to the process and where your development skills will produce the best results.

At the heart of every great business is a culture that has attracted the best talent, has engaged employees, lower turnover and more profits over the long haul.

Here's a quick visual look at the top 10 Company Culture Killers, courtesy of the Business to Community folks.

Visualize your company as a castle and the moat as your competitive advantage points. The wider your moat, the more protected you are.

Finding Your Competitive Advantage: Using the format below, identify your competitive advantages by rating each area of your business. At the end, add up your score and determine the areas for development based on the score sheet below.

In a study of nearly 700 executives across a variety of industries, Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of Strategy That Works, asked respondents to rate the effectiveness of the top leaders of their companies.

The main problem many executive teams have with strategy is they don't know where to start.