Business articles
Showing page 65 of 90 - There are 2700 Business articles
|
Google Snatch 2 The Free Click Formula 3.0! |
Top Secret Magic Code Add Just 1 Simple String Of Code To Any Website Money Magically Starts |
Get Google Ads Free! When Added To Any Site Makes Google Pay-Per-Click Ads Costs Go To Zero |
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Good idea generation ? a process
- It seems incongruous that good idea generation can be a process or that a process may lead to insight. However, if you examine the behaviour of people who regularly generate good ideas ? such as creatives in advertising - you will find that common patterns of behaviour do emerge and it is possible to make insight more likely.Below are just some elements of the good idea generation process:...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Spinning gold from straw: low-cost employee retention and motivation tools in a changing economy
- New York, NY, February 25, 2005 ? Employee retention and motivation?why should employers care? A storm is brewing. National productivity was up 3.9% in the second quarter and 1.9% in the third quarter of 2004. At the same time, the unemployment rate was up 5.5% in October 2004."Productivity is up, but fewer people are doing more," said Jennifer Loftus, SPHR, CCP, CBP, GRP, and Nat...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Uncommon common sense ? know what is the most important thing in your business
- Over 3 of my meetings with 3 business owners last week, what really shocked me was how uncommon common sense was. 2 out of 3 I spoke to do not know what is the most important thing in their business. They keep on trying on other things that are not important. As we know, every business has ONE most important thing in their particular industry. You need to do well in your most important thing and t...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The professor makes a minus power move
- If you think the power move has costs, consider the alternative. We are talking -- four friends -- bringing one another up to date on our personal and professional lives.David is department chair at the university; he is depressed. "Bummed out," he says. "I find myself withdrawing, caring less and less about the department, the school."We are stunned; just a month...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Close the performance gap
- One of the most difficult and emotionally draining situations you face as business owners or executives is employees not meeting your expectations. How can you handle it if they are not keeping up their end of the employee contract?Begin by taking a look at your team. Do you have the right people? Before you hire someone, think about the culture of your company, the team that you already ha...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Creative writing - business principles produce more quality work, faster
- Maximization methodologies have long been used in business to produce quantities of quality ideas, faster. Creative writers who want to rapidly produce quantities of quality work should apply these same principles.a) Waiting for inspiration creates less output than forcing inspiration.Simply engaging in the task generates ideas. By defining the work process, the author can frame the ...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The do?s and don?ts of giving feedback
- Being able to give effective feedback is not just a good skill to possess in business, it is a great life skill to have. Because when you are masterful at giving feedback, not only can you help your employees to sustain continuously improving performance, you can also improve the performance of the baseball team you coach, the cleaning lady at home, or the performance of your own children on compl...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 11 strategies on how to work in an open plan environment
- Many work environments now are open plan, with only a few senior managers having offices of their own. This style of work can have great benefits for team building ? fostering cooperation and collaboration and can be wonderful for developing the social aspects of teams, but on the flipside, it can drive some people crazy and be damaging to productivity. Most open plan offices require large numbers...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Developing your mission
- "The best Leader is one who knows how to pick good people to do what he or she wants done and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." - Heidi Richards -Mission statements describe the purpose of an organization or a sub-group of it. It is a general description of what it is that the team is there to do. It grows out of the Vision. It describes the organizati...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Employees commit corporate fraud
- Imagine the following scenario; Ten years ago you decided to quit your job and start your own company. For ten years you worked hard, made sacrifices, and it paid off in the end. One of your first employees, a loyal, hard working employee has been by your side the whole way.Things were going great. Until about eight months ago.All of a sudden, clients whom you had worked for for year...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Setting clearer performance expectations
- The annual performance review.Stating this phrase guarantees some reaction for anyone who has ever had one, or had to give one as a supervisor or manager. In my experience in working with organizations, that reaction is seldom positive.The concept behind the performance review or evaluation is a good one. It is a chance for someone to discuss their accomplishments, get feedback on th...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Problem solving - think cleopatras ass
- Picture the scene. Anthony pops down to the guardhouse, partly because he wants a break with the lads, but also because he has a problem. Cleopatra says she wants to bathe in ass's milk. So Anthony tells the guys in the guardhouse, that he needs some help. "The wife wants to bathe in ass's milk now." He says.Gerald, the Head Guard, says, "She wants to what?" "Bathe in ass's milk", says Anth...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - He hate me: turning their bad attitude into your great results
- "He Hate Me" was the nickname of Rod Smart, a leading rusher in 2002 for the Las Vegas Outlaws of the now defunct XFL pro football league. Looking for an edge, the XFL allowed players to put nicknames on their uniforms. "I was always saying, 'he hate me,' all through camp in Vegas," Smart said. "If I didn't get the ball, I'd talk to the other running backs and say, 'he hate me, man; this coach hat...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Get out of the stone age: give leadership talks
- 160 years ago, the newly invented electric telegraph carried the first news message. The message zipped 40 miles in a flash over wires from Baltimore to Washington, D.C.The public was dazzled -- except Henry David Thoreau. He wrote: "We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate."Toda...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Managing rebellious employees
- Surveys of executives reveal that many companies fall short of their profit objectives due to "people problems." Research for my Absolutely Fabulous Organizational Change book found these "people problems" fall into two "r" categories: rebellion and resistance.Rebellion is akin to teenagers defying authority figures, fir instance, rebelling against leaders who ...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Stomp out leeches in your company
- Recently, I felt appalled to see a political candidate running on the motto of "Demand More!" That motto oozes extreme nerve, and implies some people think it is o.k., as the saying goes, to "rob Peter to pay Paul."Well, this "Demand More!" philosophy led me to thinking about "leeches." I define "leeches" as people who devote their time and ...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to decrease downtime and increase productivity
- All maintenance activities of the workforce must be documented, this includes breakdown repairs, callouts, preventive maintenance, replacement maintenance, overhauls, and Testing & Inspection work. Maintenance work by production line employees must be included, whether or not the employee is listed as in maintenance. These activities can then be mined for maintenance information "gold".List...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Profound knowledge
- We all are on a quest for knowledge. Whether its information that will make our lives easier or just small packets of data that in a trivial way allows us to sort out "why things are the way they are on this planet." As intelligent beings we are constantly receiving and sorting information, in most instances, we are overwhelmed. Therefore, when relevant information arrives that is meaningful, conc...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Tales from the corporate frontlines: finding the perfect balance
- This article relates to the Work/Life Balance competency, which investigates how your staff feels with regard to the balance between work and personal life. It explores issues such as priority of family and hours on the job, also covered in this competency. Organizations that enjoy a high satisfaction level in this area will normally exhibit a low rate of absenteeism and experience higher employee...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Service level agreement (sla) boot camp
- Service Level Agreements, or "SLA's" are tricky but useful mechanisms for managing the risk of an on-going relationship with IT service providers. Unfortunately, most SLA's that show up in service contracts as worthless, cosmetic paper additions. SLA's can be extremely powerful tools to help you and your service provider get the most out of a relationship.What is an SLA?A service lev...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Five overlooked ways to hire winners
- Here is a true story. My dentist did a "clinical" evaluation of my teeth. That is his fancy way to say he looked in my mouth and starred at my teeth with his own two eyes. He found no cavities in his "clinical" evaluation. I felt happy and relieved!But then he took a quick x-ray. Lo-&-behold, the x-ray immediately spotted a cavity hiding under one of my fillings!!...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Business & family safety and health rating
- For good reason, practically every endeavor in life is rated. I've seen ratings on who or what's #1 in business, industry, NFL, NBA, MLB, person of the century, athlete of the century, technology, restaurants, university, neighborhoods, travel destination, best looking, best movie, best book, etc. It doesn't stop. In fact, there are multiple ratings for the same #1 spot because of varying value sy...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Medical collection. how organized is your office?
- At one time or another, all of us have experienced the frustration of waiting in a doctor's office. It seems as though every time we go to see the doctor or the dentist we end up having to wait for a ridiculous amount of time, and then when we finally do get in, we are only "treated" for a few minutes and then sent on our way. I have always wondered why that is the case. If the doctor is...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why businesses need to start nurturing collective wisdom
- COLLECTIVE WISDOM CAN BE AN effective tool for solving the problem of knowledge deficit, or the underutilization of organizational knowledge. If you are a small, medium or large business, and you don't have a method in place for harnessing and managing your organization's collective knowledge, you may be losing opportunities for significant revenue enhancement. According to a study by the Delphi G...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Planning your recruiting efforts can help you find great employees
- Today, companies have an ever-expanding list of options available to them when it comes to sourcing new employees, from advertising in newspapers and trade journals to powerful, cost-effective recruiting options available through the Internet. Unfortunately, the growth in the number of recruiting options available has made the competition for top candidates even more fierce.So how do you br...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Spotlight on productivity: how to overcome e-mail overload
- Do you ever feel overwhelmed by e-mail? Have you ever spent more of your day wading through your e-mail than managing your work? Are you looking for ways to spend less time creating, managing and answering messages? Discover how to overcome e-mail overload and be more productive by writing more effective e-mail messages and reducing the volume of e-mail.Write Effective E-Mail Messages...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Effective email communication
- Email, when used properly, can generate additional direct sales and leads; can be used as a tool to communicate with your existing client base to let them know of upcoming events which may affect them; and as a means of ongoing promotion for your business.The following is a list of simple guidelines and tips that will help you become an effective email communicator. Please bear in mind that...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Meaningful diversity: creating cultures of inclusion
- In the fitness room the other day, I caught a glimpse of a movie trailer on television. A father spoke very open-heartedly with his son about his work as a fireman. He acknowledged the fear that welled up in him when he looked into a small, dark room filled with life-threatening heat and flames, and described the instinct to run in the opposite direction.He had to pause in a safe hallway an...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Provisioning/user management system upgrades: part i -- ten reasons why not to do an upgrade
- Tommy Sherman daily monitors a helpdesk-provisioning queue for a large company. The current provisioning/user management system was written with homegrown software. It has not had a major update for several years. Each day, he is getting more and more frustrated. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot keep up with the increasing workload. New employees are screaming for their system ids and have n...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Provisioning/user management system upgrades: part ii ? building awareness and building approval
- Somewhere in the world is a person who wants to see their provisioning/user management systems get a sorely needed upgrade. But they seem to be getting nowhere.The technical requirements are unarticulated. Key decisionmakers in the company are not aware this is needed. And the "project" is funded and without resources. How can someone who has the responsibility but not the authori...
DoublingStocks - Stock Trading R
Read The Sales Page. Enough Said...
Google Nemesis
The Beast Is Back.
Paid Surveys Etc.. #1 Survey Sit
Insane Conversions With New Sales Copy... Must See. ##
Make Money Taking Surveys
Discover How to Make as Much Money as You Want
