University Resolves Flat File Storage Needs: A Case Study
The Situation: For the manager of the Building Records unit at a major west coast public University, the document storage problems were critical. The problem wasn’t justifying budget for more space. There was no more space to be had. The Facilities Management Department must... More...
What Lifestyle Entrepreneurs Never Do - About Time Management
Most people, including myself earlier in my career make a big mistake: they keep an action list without setting priorities. It typically contains entries from top to bottom about calling people, filing documents, sending faxes, setting appointments. And at the end of the day, most of the actions... More...
Modern Technologies For Businesses
Basic purpose of an organization is to organize and coordinate its tasks. To define success an organization needs healthy contributions from its pillars of resources namely people and technology. Advancement in technology eases the work for people and hence becomes an important aspect for an... More...
The Legal Form Your Business Should Take
You have a choice to make on how best to legally organize your business, as a sole trader, partnership or limited company. Broadly speaking sole trader is the simplest and limited company and the most complex way of setting up a business, but each of the three methods provides advantages and... More...
Social Distancing is the Key to Minimising Bird Flu Infection in Your Business.
Second to frequent hand washing, the next best way to protect yourself and your staff is to minimise or eliminate close contact and proximity to others. This is 'Social Distancing' and is the term being used more and more frequently as people learn what measures they can take to try to minimise... More...
An Essential Key to Your Business Growth, A Motivational Message!
A lot of people hear Motivational Speaking and roll their eyes, picturing some guru spouting off idealistic clichs. Yet the heart of a CEOs charisma comes from their ability to deliver a message, be it to one person or to a group of many, with a high energy level that connects with the... More...
Owning Your Career: Personal Growth and Development
Fifty years ago, if you started a career with one company you were likely stay with that company right up until retirement. You didn’t have to worry about developing yourself to advance your career because as long as you did your job, you had a job. Those days are long, long gone. There... More...
Trucking Safety - Behavior Plays a Vital Role
Hiring the wrong truck drivers can be disastrous. Hiring the right ones can save lives. Naturally, safety training plays an important role in driver safety. Other factors may be even more significant according to a 1993 study conducted by Behavioral-Values Research Associates.... More...
Interpersonal Skills - The Keys to Management and Leadership
According to some research studies, the number one reason why managers and executives find themselves with a stalled or underperforming career is a lack of interpersonal skills. This might seem surprising, given the amount of training and attention given to technical skills and business... More...
What-Got-You-Here Chapter 1
CHAPTER 1 You Are Here YOU KNOW THOSE MAPS in shopping malls that say, “You Are Here”? They exist to orient you in unfamiliar territory, to tell you where you are, where you want to go, and how to get there. A few people never need these maps. They’re blessed with an internal... More...
Success Delusion
People will do something—including changing their behavior—only if it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their own best interests as defined by their own values. All of us delude ourselves about our achievements, status, and contributions. We overestimate our contribution, and take... More...
Filled to Capacity
There is an old adage that says: "I bargained with life for a penny, and life would pay me no more..." What are you willing to settle for? A penny? A nickel? A dime? A dollar? A million dollars? Or, is there something so much more important than money you would not sell it for any... More...
When Business Is Slumping, Make Sure Your Assets Are Producing
When many companies go downhill, they never recover. Far too many of them continue to fall right into oblivion. They either go out of business or just become irrelevant companies. We saw this vividly in the 2001 bear market. The vast majority of the Internet companies were gone within a... More...
What-Got-You-Here Chapter 2
CHAPTER 2 Enough About You. Let's Talk About Me WHO AM I TO TELL you how to change? My career as an executive coach began with a phone call from the CEO of a Fortune 100 company. I had just given a leadership clinic to the CEO’s human resources department. That’s what I was doing back... More...
Maximize Your Meetings
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. -Robert Frost You've probably heard or even said, "I've got to get away from the office so I can get some work done." Why? It's probably because of the... More...