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Why You Should Never Hire Your Best Friend
Supervising close friends rarely works because the dynamics of the two relationships contradict one another. Friendships are based on mutuality. Friends reveal intimate secrets to each other and make themselves vulnerable. This completely contradic...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Glenn Shepard
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3 Steps to Stop Absence and Make People Happy At Work
If you're an employer or a manager then work place absence
is costing you money, inconvenience, and upsetting your
customers. And as we all know, not all days taken off work
are due to genuine sickness. Many employees "take a sickie"
because their ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Alan Fairweather
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The Two Most Powerful Words in Business
There’s a series of television commercials currently running for a bank rewards program. It features people who find an unusual way to get out of awkward situations.
My favorite is the one where a man and woman are sitting in a fine restaurant when...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Sandra Sims
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How to Make Your Tanning Salon More Profitable
Do you own or manage a Tanning salon?
Do you have a Tanning Salon but feel increasingly concerned about the local competition and the subsequent dwindling customer base? It doesn't seem to matter how
professional you are or how good your Salon is, ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Robert Geoghegan
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Are Employees Really Your Most Precious Asset?
I have yet to walk into a company during my thirty five years in the industry that didn’t have some form of this statement about the value of employees printed somewhere. A mission statement, in their employee handbook, on a poster on the wall, th...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Rick Johnson
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Just Jump: Moving Your Business to the Next Level, Part 1
What are you facing as a business owner that keeps you from moving to the next level with your business? Where are you missing out on growth opportunities for your business? Have you been afraid to move in a new direction with your business?
Then y...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Kim Beasley
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Has Your Business Had a Recent Check-up?
How is the health of your business? Take a quick pulse by looking at the following areas:
1. Financials - key items to look at are your balance sheet, income (or profit & loss) statement and cash flow statement. Is your equity, profit margin and ca...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Mike Shannon
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Manage Stakeholders and Beware of the Wicked Witch!
Forget stakeholders and they can fatally kill your project! Much has been written about why projects fail to deliver; no business case, poorly defined objectives, poor project scope alongside over-optimistic deadlines and no planned project budget!...
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rating : 4.00, 1 votes. Author : Ron Rosenhead
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Retain Your Best People
Many managers and team leaders ask me how to deal with employees in a way that will maximize their potential, create loyalty and respect, and cut down on high turnover and destructive behavior in the workplace. The single most common reason people ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Dorene Lehavi
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Ding-a-ling, Ding-a-ling
Perfunctorily ringing, the phone starts my day with an incessant ring. I'm not ready for the morning yet, but I paste a smile on my face and pick up the receiver.
Customer #1 - Good morning Jan, I need a business plan written up ASAP, got a pen?
Me...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Jan Verhoeff
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Experience Isnt Necessarily What Its Cracked Up to Be!
Isn’t it always interesting to hear somebody say “yeah, we tried that, didn’t work…”
When it was tried; what were the conditions surrounding the business? How was it implemented? How were staff trained? Most questions are never answered with any cl...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Graeme Nichol
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Creativity Management – Structured Creativity for Consultants
Most creativity consultants will focus on “mind bending” or “creativity aptitude” or some such angle during their consultancy. However, this approach is rarely the most effective one.
The most useful tool consultants can give clients is a structure...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Kal Bishop
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The Long & Winding Road (to a Comprehensive Business Plan)
If you don’t know where you’re going, how are you going to get there and, come to think of it, how are you going to know you’re there if you arrive?
The business plan. Okay, okay. I can hear your sighs and groans already. But a business plan needn’...
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rating : 8.67, 6 votes. Author : Pam Ivey
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How To Influence The Perceived Assertiveness Behaviour
The literature on assertiveness distinguishes many models, with varying validity and practical usefulness. In developing the ‘Assertiveness Coffee Cards’ we have been led to look at the issue from a different angle, namely that of how the brain fun...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : M'Hamed Cherif
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Hiring Mistakes: Find and Fix Them Fast!
Let’s assume you’ve completed your hiring process, your new employee is on the job, and training is underway.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were a tool you could use that would let you know for certain whether each new employee was a hiring mis...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Stephen Steckly
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The Happy Secretary
Executives and Managers everywhere, if you want to ensure that you have longevity and productivity in your secretary...................................treat her like a human and not a machine.
Some secretaries possess abilities beyond anything we h...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Monica Burns
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How An Executive Can Spot Creative Potential in Others
One of the most important responsibilities any executive
must handle is seeing that his company gets "the most" from
its workers. This is particularly so when it comes to
creativeness- the production of the ideas upon which the
company is dependent...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Jon Weaver
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Structure Your ADD Coaching Business for Success
The Structure Problem
Structure is an issue that most self-employed service providers struggle with. ADD coaches, in particular, often suffer from self-imposed pressure to always "be there" for the client. ADDers frequently need accountability an...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Jennifer Koretsky
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The CEO is 10,000 Feet Above the Fire
How many times have you heard a business owner or manager say that they spend their workday “always sweating at putting out fires?” I hear it all the time.
Think of a raging forest fire. There are sweaty fire fighters working hard, just yards in ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Larry Galler
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The A B Cs of Scenario Planning
SCENARIO PLANNING
There are a number of approaches to scenario planning, and they differ greatly based on the people doing the planning and the type of industry the planning is done for. Some of the best examples come from Citibank and Royal Dutch...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Rick Johnson
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Energy Saving LED RFID Tag Readers Running on Vibrational Energy
Can we build the newest robotic warehouses for the Gillette, Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense to be ultra energy efficient? Can we turn off all the lights and save on the energy? Can we turn off all the peripherals and save that energy too? I...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Lance Winslow
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Participative Management in Organizational Change
I recently read an article in which the author said, "Senior managers are becoming more accepting of participative management and employee involvement because they (senior managers) are becoming more humanistic." Nonsense!
Anybody who works with s...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Michael Beitler
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