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Kaizen - Continuous Improvement Builds A Stronger Bottom Line
What is Kaizen? A five word dictionary definition would be: A system of continuous improvement
An improvement in what? Anything and everything in your facility, your production line, your office, materials handling, purchasing, operations, maint...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Steve Hudgik
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How to Balance Your Team
You are the manager of a small business, a team, a department, a project or even a complete company. And you are to hire someone new. There is this candidate, but she is your opposite in nearly everything; you favour spontaneity, she doesn’t, you t...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Hans Bool
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Inspiring Leadership Lessons from the Academy Awards?
Several years ago I watched the Academy Awards show
from start to finish for the first time. In the years
before that, I could only watch about 30 minutes of
the show before I got bored out of my mind. But this
particular year I didn't have to ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Glory Borgeson
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Leadership & Employee Performance - Build a Bon Fire with The Annual Reviews
First of all, if all you ever do is an annual performance review for your employees, they are worthless. Put every last one of them in a big pile and burn them. The scenario of annual performance reviews often goes like this;
“I have nine reviews I...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Rick Johnson
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Web Based Becoming Home Base
The field of play today is vastly different from what it used to be, dynamic programs tracking customers, products, potential customers, product availability vs demand and a plethora of like information have staked their claim and they are not goin...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : David Knowles
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Are You Untouchable
In January 2003 The Cleveland Plain Dealer ran this headline – “Ohio lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs”. They blamed competition from India and China.
In a recent article, Business Week discussed how Call Centers are being sent off shore, sending 10s...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Ron Finklestein
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What Signals Are You Giving?
When I was old enough to learn how to drive, I asked my Dad for lessons. The first thing he did was to buy me the book "Defensive Driving." He told me I had to read it, (and wouldn’t let me behind the wheel until I did) but all I really needed to ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Marilyn Lustgarten
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Business Meeting Creativity Ideas
Developing an innovative spirit in the workplace doesn't require extraordinary measures. As a manager, you can experiment with simple ideas that merely break routines, allowing your employees permission to drop the facade that we all don to some d...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Craig Cortello
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Think Business Processes Not Departments - 5 Compelling Reasons
1. Process Thinking follows the natural flow of the business
A business process is a collection of interrelated work tasks triggered by an event and geared towards providing results or outcomes valued by the "customer". The adoption of process thi...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Samuel Okoro
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How to Manage the Employee with Attitude
Mary had "attitude". Her manner was rude and uncooperative and her colleagues complained, but she was efficient.
Her supervisor believed he was stuck with a problem that couldn't be solved. He reasoned that in any office there was always someone th...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Paul Phillips
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Are You Playing Checkers or Chess As A Leader?
Simple Ways To Improve Your Team’s Performance
If you are a leader trying to create a positive work environment, hold off on buying posters and new carpet for your work area and take look in the mirror. Did you know that 70% of how your team membe...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Kreg Enderson
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How To Get Your Clients to Pay On Time
Two things you can do to get paid on time by your customers
There is nothing more frustrating to a business owner than delivering quality products and services on time, only to have to deal with a customer that pays late. Slow and late paying clien...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Marco Terry
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How to Manage Your Cash Flow Effectively
Good cash flow management is at the heart of most successful businesses. By the same token, cash flow problems caused by a time lag between when you pay your suppliers and when you receive money from your customers, is at the root of many companies...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Carl Timson
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So What is a Server Anyway?
I was in the middle of a sales meeting when I was asked, “Anthony, what is a server, anyway?” Those within the field of business hear this word thrown around all the time. Some business owners know their companies have servers and know their comp...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Anthony Licate
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Five Ways to Be More Generous Through Your Business
One of the themes for my New Year's resolutions from last year was to become more generous. I was motivated by wanting to break a general feeling of entrepreneurial financial anxiety, as well as to begin fulfilling a childhood dream of becoming "a ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Jaya Schillinger
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Tired of Unproductive Meetings?
How much time every week do you spend in meetings? Do you feel every such meeting gives you better pay off than the equivalent time and energy spent elsewhere? While meetings can easily get unproductive and do nothing more than drain your energy, i...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Sergey Dudiy
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Leaders Make Decisions: Its Not Part of the Job; It Is the Job
I was watching one of my favorite television mini-series, HBO’s Band of Brothers, and I came across a forgotten viewpoint from the production.
Although the program centered around the time immediately following the Battle of the Bulge and the besie...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Don Doman
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Beware of a Laissez-Faire Management Style
If there’s anything that will prevent a company from optimizing its bottom line, it is a laissez-faire management style. In other words: a propensity among company managers to avoid too much interference in employee behavior.
All employees need le...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Bill Lee
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Creating a Culture of Success
Why is a company culture so important?
I was reading a book call The World is Flat and the author was discussing the importance of a country’s culture in making changes in adapting to changes in the world’s economy. He was referring to a country’s ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Ron Finklestein
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Fighting Fires at Work
Out in the forest or in our neighborhood, we recognize a firefighter rather easily: a heavily-clad person, holding a fire hose, walking up or down a ladder, or performing some other tasks that reduce or end a conflagration.
Managers, consultants, ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Jeanie Marshall
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Make it Happen in 2006
I thought seeing it’s the end of the year I wouldn’t focus on setting goals – everybody else does that, albeit not very well. I’d focus on achieving goals. So here’s some thoughts.
Focus on your goals
Here’s a question: Where do you want to be by t...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Graeme Nichol
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Effective Data Management
Mining data is one of the keys to running an effective business. Here’s a primer on effectively managing your business data to maximize the efficiency of your business.
Effective data management plays an essential role for any growing business. Inf...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Halstatt Pires
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