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Don’t Block Good Ideas from Getting to You!

WHY DIDN’T THEY TELL ME?

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

Often the best ideas to solve problems, cut costs, and improve sales come from your own people – but they never get to you. Why? Because you have inadvertently allowed your company’s structure to prevent them from doing so. Employees, vendors, and customers are...

5 Barefoot Problem Solving Principles

TAKE INVENTORY

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

When we took on the building of the Barefoot Wine brand, we really didn’t understand the problems we would have to overcome to be successful. We had no idea how long it would take, the opposition we would face, or the enormous hurdles we had to clear in compliance,...

Give Your Problems the Deep Six!

BELIEVING IS SEEING!

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

These days we’re not supposed to call them “problems.” Now they’re “challenges.” But no matter what you call them, every day we entrepreneurs seem to face a new one, from putting out small fires to tackling ongoing threats to our business. All problems have this in...