Who is Richard E. Cunningham? That is a good question. You are at the right place to find out.
I am an author, entrepreneur, business man, manager, and general know it all. Not satisfied with just having my advice ignored by my friends and family in my normal life I have written a series of books and developed a podcast to give random strangers advice they can also ignore. After all they know better then me I am sure
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I grew up in a small town, so small you could find out all sort of embarrassing things about me with a minimal amount of work, but nobody cares about that phase of my life so lets move on.
As I began my business career I worked in a variety of small businesses, and some government positions as well. But I always found myself drawn back to small family run businesses. The ability to resolve issues without having to contact three to five levels of management and a union rep proved to be irresistible for somebody such as myself. I like to solve problems, not just wait until my pension kicks in!
Looking back, I appear to have developed a bit of a knack to succeeding in businesses who were suffering from difficult staffing “issues” when I began my time there. Over time I developed methods and systems that just worked for these types of businesses. In my times of need I often read human resource books, or various other business books hoping to find that light of hope but I always found then wanting. Generally they all had the assumption that you were dealing with reasonable university educated people. The majority of the worlds work force is not made up of these type of people.
Where is a book that solves my problems I wondered to myself? I never found one. Years later, after much pain and suffering I found solutions that work and I wrote them in my now respected tome “Why your employees hate you!”
Considering my life’s work complete I sat back to enjoy my retirement and wait for the book royalties to make me a fabulously wealthy individual. But luck is a fickle thing, and I soon found myself working on my next book. “Why your customers hate you.” Because employees are only one side of the coin aren’t they?