Author Archives: jacktarconsulting

Everyone seems to want to improve their efficiency, and why wouldn’t they? Efficiency is a sure way to improve time management and increase profits, right? Maybe. This is a topic that has come up several times in the past few months and in reflecting on it, I realize it has been a consistent theme inContinue reading “Is Efficiency Overrated? A Case for Effectiveness.”

Fatigue, we all get it. What’s amazing to me is that I feel like we are just starting to talk about it. The concept of Zoom fatigue originated during the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequently made us aware of all of the other sources of fatigue we experience. I’ll skip to the bottom line; make sureContinue reading “Fatigue”

Occasionally a company I reach out to says they are “over-consulted” or they have worked with consultants in the past and it hasn’t helped. What does this say about the state of the company and the nature of the consultant relationship? Every consultant has their own specialty: finance, sales, process improvements, operational organization, manufacturing, etc.Continue reading “Fear of Over-Consulting”

Here’s one from the achieves. I was cleaning out some old folders on my computer and came across this Harvard Business Review post from 2010. I don’t typically keep these “top ten lists” (in this case top 12) as they usually are more fluff than substance but this list must have really resonated with me.Continue reading “Great Bosses”

It’s ok, I get it. Consultants sometimes get a bad rap. My business model is a little bit different from most consultants. Like others in the field, I offer advice on organizational structure, leadership development and coaching, process flow analysis, financial analysis, and business plan creation and review. The difference is that I also offerContinue reading “Oh No, Not Another Consultant!”

This Post is based on something I wrote in 2015 and still holds true today… A company is solvent when it has enough cash in the bank to pay bills as they come due. Banks (and other entities) that have loaned money to a company  periodically monitor the financial health of a business to ensureContinue reading “A Cash Flow Trap”