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Its All About The Customers, Baby


If you want to ensure a steady stream of customers in your business, you must always remember why you're in business in the first place.

What To Do When Your IT Project Is Late, Over Budget, and Looks Like It?s Never Going To Work


Here?s a scary statistic. According to four prominent research firms, only around 20% of all IT projects are finished in a timely manner. By ?timely? the researchers mean without loss of quality or being over budget. They go on to say the average project runs approximately 200 percent late, roughly 200 percent over budget, and contains only 2/3 of the original functionality.

Five Tips for Analyzing an Income Statement


In today's article, we?ll be looking at the income statement, which is the most deceptively simple of the major financial statements. I say simple because it?s just a list of all the revenue, minus all the expenses, to calculate what?s left over in profit. It?s no more difficult than putting your family budget together, right?

Narcissism in the Boardroom


The perpetrators of the recent spate of financial frauds in the USA acted with callous disregard for both their employees and shareholders - not to mention other stakeholders. Psychologists have often remote-diagnosed them as "malignant, pathological narcissists".

The Narcissist in the Workplace


To a narcissist-employer, the members of his "staff" are Secondary Sources of Narcissistic Supply. Their role is to accumulate the supply (in human speak, remember events that support the grandiose self-image of the narcissist) and to regulate the Narcissistic Supply of the narcissist during dry spells (simply put, to adulate, adore, admire, agree, provide attention and approval and so on or, in other words, be an audience). The staff (or should we say "stuff"?) is supposed to remain passive. The narcissist is not interested in anything but the simplest function of mirroring. When the mirror acquires a personality and a life of its own, the narcissist is incensed. When independent minded, an employee might be in danger of being sacked by his employer (an act which demonstrates the employer's omnipotence).

Give Yourself a Boss? Day Gift


Become a better boss and reap the benefits

Give Yourself a Boss Day Gift, Part 2: Are You the Position or the Person?


Are you the position or the person?

Truth or Consequences: How to Give Employee Feedback


In the bestseller, Good to Great, Jim Collins discovered that, "the good-to-great companies continually refined the path to greatness with the brutal facts of reality."

Smart Choices: How to Hire the Best


Your organization?s continued growth and success depend on making smart choices and hiring the best. Today?s economy is exploding with talent, allowing you to be selective about the staff you hire. Yet, the crucial step to filling a position is finding the right talent for your organization - someone that has the skills for the job, easily blends with the culture, interacts well with the team and believes in your mission.

Why All Managers Are Alike


Because, like you I suspect, they have key target audiences whose behaviors help or hinder them in achieving their organizational objectives.

How To Prevent Your New Manager From Becoming A Statistic


According to a study by the Manchester Group, 4 out of 10 new managers fail in the first 18 months! The top 5 reasons cited:

Invite Self-Managed Staff


"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being." -Goethe

Virtual Assistance: A Money Saving Opportunity For Employers


What is a Virtual Assistant? A Virtual Assistant is a highly skilled, independent entrepreneur who provides business services in a remote or virtual environment. Some have used terms like telecommuter or working from home.

Use Every Weapon You Have


One of the strongest weapons available allows business, non-profit and association managers to begin changing the behaviors of their key external audiences in ways that lead directly to achieving their primary operating objectives.

Time Management - How to Have Productive Meetings


One of the greatest time wasters of all are unnecessary or poorly run meetings. If you want to dramatically improve your time management skills, then learn how to have productive meetings.

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