On Aug 8, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
Obviously you have never had to live within budgets.
Very often many of us are being asked to do more with LESS
There are two ways to handle budget problems.
One is to cut back, fire highest-paid staff, run with the cheapest
hardware, buy the cheapest instead of the best software, etc. The
result is low morale, low productivity, less income, more budget
problems, and more pressure to do more with less.
The other is to take care of your best workers, run with hardware
that makes your staff most productive, get the software that boosts
productivity the most, develop new products, increase marketing, etc.
The result is high morale, high productivity, more income, and less
worry about budget problems. You get to do more with more.
Earlier this week I was at a client as they were finishing their
September issue. The publisher was walking down the hall carrying the
bluelines and chortling "I've got $400,000 in my hands." That one
issue is going to cover most of their operating costs for the year.
And yes, their other issues will make them money too.
I'll leave it to our sad sack WFBs to struggle with doing less with
less.
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