Business is About Making Money (13 Jun 2006) Ask most people why they are in business and they will give you any number of reasons. Things such as wanting to improve the lives of others; make the world a better place; provide for their family; ...
Business Knowledge Management (13 Jun 2006) Knowledge processes cannot be managed following the standard business process management paradigm. In the following article some guidelines are given for organizations willing to better manage their knowledge processes.
Business Leadership Skills - Managing the Human Being Behind the Business (13 Jun 2006) It's a common problem and we've all seen it - business owners that are just 'too busy' all of the time, and as a result, do not enjoy the success in business they had hoped for. But often one of the major reasons driving success relates to how well (or poorly) the business owner manages themselves!
Business Opportunity - Leverage Your Employees! (13 Jun 2006) For business to be successful, you have to take every step possible to make sales, control costs, be profitable.
Yet there is an asset that so often gets looked over.
The very people you employ.
And if you work it right, they can bring in rewards like you never thought possible.
Business Relationship Germs (13 Jun 2006) Identify the business relationship germs in your business and kill them immediately. Management cannot afford to alienate and lose good people. Here are several management pitfalls to avoid.
Bye-Bye Boring Meetings! Make Yours Remarkable! (13 Jun 2006) Skillful facilitation can significantly improve your meetings by empowering every team member. A good meeting must be orchestrated as a creative group effort. If you start with an unfocused agenda, add group members who are unclear of their roles, and mix in a lack of clear guidelines about participation, you have a recipe for a snoozefest...or worse.
Call Center Killers and How To Prevent Them (13 Jun 2006) There are three major areas of focus that must be addressed in your Call Center if you want to improve performance. Often call center managers acknowledge that these are major concerns but rarely are proper solutions utilized to make the short and long term positive effect. This article discusses these killers and provides solutions.
Can A Business Still Be Profitable When People Skills Are Absent? (13 Jun 2006) While a business may at first seem to be hugely successful and profitable, even without the active promotion and nurturing of people skills, this is definitely not a situation that can be sustained for long
Can I Do It All Myself? (13 Jun 2006) You're a business owner and your list of clients is growing leaps and bounds as you hoped it would. The money is coming in and you may even enjoy spending an extra hour or two at the office to get caught up at the end of the day or early in the morning before the phone begins to ring.
Can What Someone Does Off-hours Affect Your Business? (13 Jun 2006) How much do you have to worry about what people who are part of your possibly
far-flung "virtual" corporation do when they're not working directly for you? The answer may surprise you, and if you're a manager, even a virtual one, this is essential reading.
Can You Sleep While The Wind Blows? (13 Jun 2006) Let me repeat a story I heard many years ago that has stuck with me throughout my life. The lessons from this fable are many and have been applied to a variety of areas of my life. It recently popped into my mind again as I was thinking about the needs businesses have today for business continuity planning and disaster recovery contingencies.
Catastrophic Events = Business Purchase Opportunities (13 Jun 2006) Sometimes the best source for finding a quality business to purchase results from a catastrophic event - be on the look out for once-in-a-lifetime opportunities!
Catch Your Staff Doing Something Right (13 Jun 2006) As a manager, are you constantly juggling problems that crop up unexpectedly? Do you end up reacting to things instead of being ahead of the curve? Or, do you simply wish you were more plugged in to the every day workings of your department? There's a simple cure for all these problems. Read on...
CEO: The Key To Fix ingThe Marketing/Sales Collaboration Problem (13 Jun 2006) The key to solving what is being talked about a great deal these days is having the CEO initiate the actions necessary to change the behaviors and mindsets of these two departments. Without this action the talk will continue but nothing will be changed or accomplished.
CEOs And Boards Are Locked In A Spiral Of Doom (13 Jun 2006) The relationship between boards of director and CEOs are vital to the well-being of any company. Many boards and CEOs misunderstand that relationship and so are locked into a "spiral of doom." The author describes the spiral and ways to stop it.
CEOs Are Great, Top CEOs Are Greater (13 Jun 2006) Most CEOs are CEOs because they have given outstanding performances in their careers. They worked hard, were smarter and sometimes luckier than their ambitious peers who worked equally hard or maybe even harder. Having reached the top, it is natural that CEOs believe strongly in their capabilities and competence as leaders because of their good leadership history. Why do some CEOs still hire an executive coach despite having reached the top already?
Challenge of ERP Implementation: Q and A with Rick Maurer (13 Jun 2006) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has a dismal success rate. And those failures are avoidable if you are willing to look beyond just the technical challenges.
Change and Performance - Training May Not Be The Answer (13 Jun 2006) Introducing new products or services, bringing new people on board, developing a new process or procedure, installing new equipment, change seems to be the one constant in business today and change a...
