Tips for Keeping Your Team’s Eyes on the Prize This Holiday Season
Do the holidays have your office, your team, or even you distracted? Has your post-Thanksgiving “hangover” morphed into a full-blown malaise as you enter the stretch run for what remains of 2017? It’s easy, quite common, and completely understandable for you and/or your team to fall off the work bandwagon for a time around the…
Expressing Thanks for a Great 2017 . . . and Beyond!
Thanksgiving is a perfect time to step back and take a moment to say “thanks” to all the people in your life who make what you have, what you enjoy, what you love, and what you look forward to possible each and every day. Here are Barrel O’Monkeyz, like most Americans, we’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving…
How NOT to Fall Victim to The Devil in the Details
The “devil is in the details” is a centuries-old saying that refers to how something might seem simple at a first glance but ends up taking more time and effort to complete than first expected. Now, I may be going out on a limb here (what else would you expect from a monkey), but I have to…
Getting Paid is Hard Work
For any business, big or small, sending out an invoice should be a delightful experience—the crowning culmination of all the hard work that generated a slew of billable hours resulting in said invoice, the glorious banana treat the end of a long day’s, week’s, or month’s labor. Sadly, invoicing—especially for smaller businesses, independent contractors, and…
