Creating company culture with the right people

Atiba has been successful with OFS. Really successful. He sent me a video talking about it. We chopped it up into smaller segments so we could focus on specific things. When discussing company culture, most people think about ping-pong tables in open-layout offices....

Can you find the top 1% of workers?

Employee costs can be super high, especially if you want to hire the best. Or is it? I know where you can hire the top 1% of workers at an affordable rate. Workers who graduated at the top of their class. Workers with years of experience and are recognized for their...

When your business makes a difference

Every once in a while, we get a request for a “Certificate of Employment” (COE). It’s a letter stating the person works for us, including how much they get paid. The usual reason for getting a certificate of employment is something that really makes...

Hospital watchers are a thing in the Philippines

A few months ago, one of my OFS, Jam, talked about taking care of his mom and how he would accompany her to doctor’s appointments. I mentioned in my video and podcast that we do it differently in the US. We mostly take ourselves to the hospital.  Same thing when we...

Are You Paying Your OFS Enough?

We’re trying to build an exterior detached garage at my house right now. When we met with the designer he said, “What do you want with this?” “Well, we want this much space. We want *this thing*. We want *that thing*…but we don’t really know.” And he said,...