In my 28 years of spearheading defenses to union organizing, I came to learn that employees never vote for unions; they vote against management.

In the world of contract security, we have all experienced those days when we look at the clock and wonder where the day has gone. We feel particularly frustrated because we worked 10 or 12 hours and don’t feel like we accomplished much.

The words “performance review” may, for some, call to mind a nightmarish scenario straight out of the movie Office Space, complete with a dull, ineffective interview process and angry employees. Unfortunately, there are certainly some businesses where the film’s satirical exaggeration of performance reviews is not such an exaggeration. But the good news is that your business need not be one of those bad examples.

America today faces a major crisis in leadership that spans politics, government, business, nonprofits, education and religion. Confidence in our leaders has fallen to an all-time low. Recent surveys by the Gallup Poll show that only 22 percent of Americans trust our business leaders, and even fewer trust our political leaders. That’s not just a problem—it represents the potential for disaster. 

The question of what to pay BSC salespeople is one of the most discussed topics within our industry. Do I pay salary only? Salary plus commission? Commission only? There are about as many ways to compensate salespeople as there are salespeople, but in this article we want to address what I consider to be the most popular and effective plans.

A high-quality performance, whether it is on the basketball court or in a cubicle, will only happen if a person is efficient with their time. A company is only as efficient as their worker. It takes discipline to become an effective person. Here are a few tips to start the day right and successfully approach interpersonal interactions and events.