The Gray Cat Blog

I love to create something from the ground up. 

 As an avid gardener, I have done this many times over – taking a raw piece of dirt and creating a magical paradise creating signature items such as p...

One of the most important, yet biggest challenges facing a retailer is creating a new store vision for your chain, while simultaneously running your day-to-day business.  There are only so many resour...

Recently, I appeared on the Big Pixel podcast where we chatted on a number of business topics including incentives for employees.

Here is a minute-long clip on an incentive program we tied to overall...

Change is inevitable. 

We change where we live; we change relationships; and we change our jobs.  Change has been with us throughout time, but the worldwide pandemic seemed to put change on hyperdriv...

“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate” – from the movie, Cool Hand Luke

Fire. Aim. Ready. If this is your communications plan…..you may want to read on.

Amazingly, many companies do not t...

Gray Cat often gets asked to step into a senior-level role to manage an enterprise-wide project (https://www.graycatenterprises.com/blog/project-management)   

We get tasked with leading the project ...

Want to improve your business-building skills but don’t know where to turn? 

Introducing the Gray Cat Learning Series

I am John Matthews, Founder and President of Gray Cat Enterprises, Inc. Over my ...

Want more ideas?  For more information on Gray Cat Learning Series, visit: https://www.graycatenterprises.com/gray-cat-learning-series

Effective leadership involves a myriad of skillsets that when properly combined and executed creates a dynamic leader that can take their teams to levels never thought possible.  It involves accountab...

Fire. Aim. Ready.

Is this your corporate communications strategy? 

The art of corporate communications stems around the strategic management of information within an organization and its external s...