Times are tough. That means businesses everywhere are forced to do more with less. Budgets are being cut. Headcounts are being reduced. In many offices across the country, the only thing that isn’t being reduced is the workload. It all comes down to finding ways to do more with less – more work with fewer people, bigger projects on smaller budgets. Just remember that, historically, great opportunities have been found in times of great challenge and hardship. Now, as organizations and as individuals, we all have a (hopefully!) once in a lifetime opportunity to look a global financial crisis in the face and excel in spite of it. So how do we survive and thrive in an economy that bites back? It’s time to take the gloves off and get lean and mean in 2009. Here are three simple … [Read more...]