Small business SOPs work when they are one page, written by the person who does the job, and attached to the moment the work actually happens. They fail when they are long, written by a manager, and stored somewhere nobody opens. The format matters less than the...
A small business health check is a structured review of five things: cash, margin, sales, operations and risk. You score each one against a standard you set in advance, then rank the gaps by how much money or time they cost you. Done properly it takes a single focused...