How The Right Questions Can Change Your Life
Your own pressing needs, your long-standing frustrations, would benefit tremendously if you asked an absolute question, a high-quality how question. If you were to follow up this question with absolute commitment, patience, and discipline your perception would expand to allow... More...
Volunteering is Good Business
(ARA) - Corporate community involvement is on the rise as more companies recognize the many benefits of being socially responsible. When employees volunteer for a good cause, the community, the employee, and the company benefit. Most corporations recognize that volunteer work can... More...
Jack Welch -- Winners Get Back Up on the Horse
A few months ago I had the opportunity to spend a few minutes with Jack Welch, past CEO of GE. A fantastic opportunity. Some of the things he said about who they hire and what they are looking for in managers sort of hit home with what I am telling clients, and what I am telling my... More...
Compensation and Six Sigma Black Belts
One of the more ambiguous elements of a Six Sigma project is the level and type of compensation the organization should give to its Six Sigma leaders and team members. On the one hand, setting compensation is not an integral part of any stage of a Six Sigma project; on the other hand,... More...
School Fundraisers - How To Raise Twice The Money With Half The Sweat
If your members, parents or donors wear clothes, watch t.v. or read books you have the beginning ingredients to a sweet recipe for a great year-round school fundraiser. How so? By taking advantage of what's known as an affiliate program or in more common lingo -... More...
In Business Planning, Competition is Good
When developing the competition section of your business plan, companies must define competition correctly, select the appropriate competitors to analyze, and explain its competitive advantages. To start, companies must align their definition of competition with investors.... More...
How To Write A Quick & Relatively Painless Business Plan
If you've never written a business plan before, the idea alone can be overwhelming. It doesn't have to be the nightmare of your imagination. Traditionally, a business plan is used to secure funding from a lender or a potential investment partner. It serves as something... More...
Measuring The Success Of Your Outsourcing
"If you can't measure it, you can't manage it." - Peter Drucker Many people fear that outsourced software development means having little or no control over the development process. They think there is no need to measure while the programmers are there in the same room. Or is... More...
Business Plans
Way back in business school we had to churn out business plans every semester. As soon as the assignment would drop we would be scrambling for information. Start the number crunching game, do the analysis, do some mental planning and write business plans. Then we graduated and got... More...
Secret Guide To Help You Succeed In Your Home Based Business
As a beginning home based business entrepreneur, you wanted to discover the basic strategies that catapulted to the top today's leaders in the business world. But before you could embark on a successful Internet venture, you must prepare yourself for the task ahead. Why? Because the road... More...
Policies and Procedures Used as Management Key
Managers know the difficulty of getting people to do the right things the right way. And employees need their expertise and understanding of the way things should be done. But how do you get it across so it actually sticks? The answer is well-defined policies and procedures. ... More...
How You Can Learn to be a Better Manager
When you first take over a department, expectations are usually high but operations are sometimes in disarray. The staff is disorganized, goals aren’t being met, and hours are spent on unproductive tasks. Just when you think the company would never get on track, the CFO recommends that you... More...
Is it a bird...Is it a plane.....No it's an Angel Investor!
Look….up in the air...Is it a bird?...Is it a plane?...No, it’s an ANGEL INVESTOR! Angel Investors (or simply Angels) as defined by Wikipedia are affluent individuals who provide capital for business start-ups, usually in exchange for an equity stake. Unlike venture capitalists,... More...
Take Back Your Time
Copyright 2005 Kathy Paauw"You will never find time for anything. You must make it."-Charles BuxtonAccording to the organizers of Take Back Your Time Day, which was held on October 15, if Americans quit working on that date and didn’t work for the rest of the year, we would be working the... More...
What You Need to Know About Business Intelligence
Every business wants to be successful. That success always comes from growth. With most businesses, growth comes from customer retention and gaining new customers. “Business Intelligence” can help a company gain new customers and retain old customers. Business intelligence can be... More...