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Rethinking the CEO-Chairman Split Traditionally, in American businesses, the same person occupies the role of chairman of the board and chief executive officer, though this is gradually shifting to the European model. In most Europe...
Develop Your Managers and Keep Your Staff Following on from the last edition of The Organised Times where we spoke about developing the people in your business, this week we're focussing on the importance of the continual development of your...
Develop Your People and Make More Money What is the no. 1 asset in your business beside yourself? It's your people.Then why is it they often fall to the bottom of the list when it comes to doing anything to help them improve their performa...
How to Hire the Right People One of the biggest challenges any business owner or manager has is hiring the right people. I've recently discovered a simple, inexpensive yet very effective way which will help you get it right. Thi...
Five Defining Characteristics of Great CEOs 1. Personal insight. Great CEOs are great leaders. They know themselves and what they stand for. They have been called on all their lives as problem solvers because others know them to be fair and im...
10 Critical Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Consultant Talk to as many consultants as you can before hiring one. Even if you have one person or firm in mind, interview at least a few others as a sort of due diligence. You'll probably find that each inter...
What Consultants Want You to Know (But You Never Ask) I've been both a CEO and a consultant, so I've seen from both perspectives what goes right and what goes wrong when a consultant comes in to a company. Generally the CEO or the manager who hires the ...
Are You in AWE of Your Employees? Employers have become so concerned about seeming "unfair" or worse becoming the victims of lawsuits by unhappy ex-employees that they've stopped requiring minimum standards of employees. This can onl...
Five Essential Hiring Practices Recruiting and hiring are often done in haste, leaving the company to repent in the long run. Today, there's a reason to be concerned about negligent hiring. Negligent hiring means you and your compa...
Four Employee Behaviors That Can Kill Your Business I found it important to clarify for employees what "deal-breaker" behavior was at my company. These are the things I insisted would not be tolerated and would lead to immediate or ultimate terminatio...
Five Steps to Increase the People Power in Your Business Take some bold steps and help your employees and business partners open up to real change and help them start thinking again to the longer term. Send a message that you are ready to commit to new way...
A Fast and Simple Way to Update Your Business You open your computer, the flashing button says, "We have a new update for your software program. Do you wish to update now or later?" You choose the Update Now button and immediately your compute...
Knowledge Management - Lessons Learned and How To Identify Them How can I ensure that my organisation is identifying "lessons learned" in an effective way - a way which makes their successful application more likely? This article, drawn from a best-selling knowledge management fieldbook by its author, identifies ten key steps involved in "learning after doing".
Knowledge Management - Creating a Sustainable Yellow Pages System How can I "know who knows" None of us can personally know more than around 250 people, yet we want our companies to be smart, learning organisations where it's easy to find the right person to talk to. This is why many organisations create "yellow pages" applications, which enable employees to find and contact other staff with particular expertise and skills. However, these systems can be fraught with difficulty in their implementation, and often end up as out-of-date, glorified intranet telephone directories. This article, drawn from a best-selling knowledge management fieldbook by its author, identifies ten key steps involved in creating and sustaining a successful, employee-owned yellow pages system.
Write Winning Proposals For Venture Capitalists Start-up companies need start-up cash. Venture capitalists have that money and since the tech crash they don't want to give it to you. Follow these tips so they open their cheque book.
Einstein - Definition of Insanity Insanity in the Sign & Graphics Industry Einstein's Definition Albert Einstein once said "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". Thi...
Business is About Making Money 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; ...
Are You Using the Right Form of Energy? As we near the end of summer, here is a question I have for you, "Are you using the right form of energy to grow your business?" Are you having trouble growing your small business as fast as you wan...
Should I Lease A Tanning Bed? You can lease a tanning bed or beds for your salon and it may be the best way to go. There are advantages when you lease a tanning bed or beds.
Target Practice And The Internet Entrepreneur Internet marketing, a lot of the time really is hit and miss. Always keep in mind that when you promote your site you are, in effect trying to get the word out ...
Balance Transfers Credit card balance transfer involves using a credit card to pay off the amount outstanding on one or more credit/store cards. The total debt then moves to one ...
10 Reasons to Spend Your Vacation in an Orlando Villa Finding Florida vacation rentals that will spaciously accommodate groups and families is much easier than one might expect. In a place like orlando, one will f...
Decorating for Real Life and Real People I spent a recent weekend curled up with a stack of decorating magazines. I read them cover to cover - usually back to front, but that's the way I read most mag...
Political Branding and Marketing Political strategists, branding gurus and image consultants could learn a lot from the modern corporate successes in branding. In each political season we see p...
Executive ESP: A Pathway to Success! We all have psychic abilities that we use daily, although most of us don't even realize that. The full study of this issue would take many books, and years of e...
Drug Them and Send Them Out Health is a number one issue in todays world but I think we forget this when it comes to our children. This article is about children placed on Ritalin. I hav...
Creative Visualizations for Love To manifest love through creative visualization, you first need to learn how to suspend or hold an image of the desired outcome in your mind in as much detail a...
Be A Savvy Writer: Go Where The Business Is Develop your writing career: sell more stories and articles; make more contacts. Go to where the business is... whether you're writing fiction or non-fiction.
Is Low-Carb Weight Loss Really Just Water Loss? Any weight loss or diet plan, including low-carb plans like the induction phase of the Atkins Diet will result in water loss during the first week or two. How...
Why Arent People Buying From Your Ecommerce Website? Your stock is tempting, your prices right - your ecommerce website is good to go, but somehow the customers just aren't buying. So where are you going wrong?
Electric Radiant and Floor Coverings If the decision of what type radiant heating system to use was left to the floor-coverings, it would choose electric radiant...
The Elusive Butterfly of Happiness The search for happiness in life is universal, and yet it is hard to find. Perhaps we are looking in the wrong place.
How to Make Your Affiliate Sales Take Off in a Hurry Affiliate programs are probably the easiest and simplest way to achieve business success online. Indeed there are many online entrepreneurs from all over the wo...
Entrepreneurial Hate, its out there Today, I got an email from a lady who hates all business people and entrepreneurs, because they are Greedy, Arrogant and a Host of other atrocities. She was rep...
Are You Too Critical? First of all, criticalness breaks up more relationships, than anything else. And that criticalness is usually over the children or money! Criticalness can be s...
Do You Have Stretch Marks? Here are a few basic tips for preventing or treating new stretch marks that may be caused by pregnancy or being overweight.
The Power of Notes A handwritten note can be a very powerful way to express yourself to others. This article discusses how a handwritten note can be one way to help make the worl...
