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There are several business and finance concepts that managers and executives need to understand. Most of them can be learned in college or while earning a graduate degree. Others can be learned through learning and development programs offered by the companies we work with, while some concepts ... Views: 889
Are you a self-confessed shopaholic who buys anything and everything that you get your shopping addicted hands on? Such thoughtless and impulsive buying will most likely result in the accumulation of a bunch of junk that will simply collect dust. Can you even remember that silk scarf you just ... Views: 889
Do any of these things happen at your meetings?
* People arrive late
* people leave early
* someone yells BINGO in mid-meeting
* People are unprepared
* A key person is absent
* Someone asks for a pencil or pen
* People mysteriously get paged midway through and leave in droves
Before you ... Views: 889
"Success is every minute you live. It's the process of living. It's stopping for the moments of beauty, of pleasure; the moments of peace. Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of the journey." — Jennifer James, Success is the Quality of Your Journey
After ... Views: 887
As I write this in April 2009, many would say we are living in tough, uncertain economic times.
Watching, listening to or reading the news you will "know" that new layoffs are announced every day, a shaky stock market is followed more closely than ever, and uncertainties seem to be ... Views: 887
Your day in a shop can consist of a lot of quiet time. Do not think of this as boring time, twiddling your thumbs or scanning on FaceBook, Twitter, or other social networks. I know I have days when I have had a few hours in the shop where no-one has walked in. You can use this time to get ... Views: 886
Buying a tractor from a major manufacturer has many of the same principles and drawbacks as when buying a new or second-hand car. Dealerships of tractor manufacturers will normally offer for sale new and used tractors, as well as a wide range of other types of agricultural machinery, as well as ... Views: 886
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” – George Bernard Shaw
There’s so much buzz going around these days on developing the proper ‘netiquette’ when posting on the worldwide web that I wonder if we’ve overlooked the workplace where real ... Views: 886
Odoo 13 IoT (Internet of Things)
IoT or Internet of Things is a network of devices and devices which might function and transmit data by itself, with out the direct intervention of an individual. This know-how is usually used to link house units and digital home equipment collectively for ... Views: 886
Every business entrepreneur nourishes one’s own business like a baby. However, that does not mean that one has to do everything by oneself. Once the business expands, responsibilities escalate and therefore, it is wise to distribute responsibilities through outsourcing. Growing businesses are ... Views: 886
Have you found when managing your employees that they bring different levels of self-confidence to their work? We know that the more confidence an individual possesses the more efficient and productive they can be in meeting their goals. If you view your role in managing employees as a mutual ... Views: 886
"Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then to help orchestrate the energy of those around you." — Peter Drucker, professor and author of dozens of books on economics, management, and leadership
Imagine rushing to an emergency room with severe ... Views: 885
PRETZEL MANAGEMENT
By
Bill Cottringer
“Pretzel Management is when you stop trying to figure out when one thing ends and another starts. You just spread some mustard, take a healthy bite and enjoy it.” ~ The author.
I don’t think it’s just me but I sense management is getting tougher ... Views: 885
There’s no better catalyst for self realization than taking the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam. I’m kidding you, of course, but there is some truth in that the PMP exam day will illuminate that “you don’t know what you don’t know.”
The PMP Exam is a ‘closed’ book exam. That means ... Views: 885
Academic and scientific journals print many different kinds of publications, and the titles and categories they use to mark and classify such papers are still more numerous. Scientific journals prefer to concentrate on different kinds of articles than humanities journals do, and even though they ... Views: 885
Let me start by saying I am not a camel expert. Some of what I know about camels, I have learned from reading throughout my life. Some I learned yesterday when talking with colleagues - people who know more about them than I do. I however have become more interested because of my recent personal ... Views: 884
Do you ever let yourself daydream about how much better things could be at work? For example, let's look at what's behind Door Number One:
Imagine that you come to work one day and there's nothing on your desk. There's nothing in your Inbox. No new emails. No one has made any new demands on ... Views: 884
We all have our own mind and thought. This thought varies from person to person which shows their personality, inner peace, and confidence. That is why American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, said
"man is what he thinks all day long".
So, if your whole day is full of destructive thoughts ... Views: 883
Work less but do more is what the Pareto Principle is all about. Also known as the ‘law of the vital few’ it says that in most situations roughly 80 percent of effects come from only 20 percent of the causes. It’s been applied to almost every human endeavour, from software development to ... Views: 882
NO-NONSENSE “P” POINT MANAGEMENT
By
Bill Cottringer
"A shortcut is the longest distance between two points." ~ Annonymous.
Management information, like everything else today is on overload, so here is a quick system of No-Nonsense “P’ Point Management to help you accomplish a lot by ... Views: 880
It is inevitable that the majority of office based workplaces will end up with a large amount of paper documents, files and records all of which take up valuable space on desks, cabinets and in the general office.
Having a largely cluttered office full of paper files and documents not only ... Views: 880
Sport ist ein wichtiger Bestandteil unseres Lebens. In regelmässigen Abständen werden grosse Sportveranstaltungen ausgerichtet und ziehen eine Vielzahl von Fans in ihren Bann. Fieberhaft verfolgen diese die Austragung der Veranstaltung. Verrückt nach Sport, engergiegeladen und leidenschaftlich ... Views: 877
When the economy takes a turn for the worse, contractors plunge into receivership, but you can’t blame the economy for everything.
Construction is a risky business, and contractors are risk-takers by nature. However, because of its cyclical nature; contractors have a tendency to over-extend ... Views: 877
Being influential can mean the difference between success and failure. Yours.
Influence is touted to women as an outer or external component as a means of getting what you want.
This is logical IF you accept influence as how to exert power over someone or a situation. James Ford instructs ... Views: 876
Do you ever wonder how to become better at what you do? The answer is... getting feedback from those you serve is the best way to become better at what you do. In this article I am going to share with you the right and the wrong ways to ask for feedback.
Asking for feedback from the people ... Views: 872
If you own a credit card, and you are looking for pointers that can help you manage your line of credit in the most responsible way you can, then you have stumbled upon the right article. In the remainder of this piece, we have listed down and tackled four suggestions guaranteed to help you, as ... Views: 872
We want our customers to love us.
We want our employees to love their jobs.
Yet if you bring up the “L word” in the context of leadership, people get uncomfortable.
They envision an afternoon of holding hands around the company campfire with the staff swaying to the strains of ... Views: 871
We recently started a six-month leadership training program with a new client. The participants are accepted into the program only after they have been nominated by someone at or above their position in the company, and they have successfully passed the program's interview process.
This ... Views: 870
Which is it, the economy or you that are hurting your business?
With the uncertainty about the economy, many are wondering what is wrong with their business. In many cases, the answer lies in your ability to come to terms with “how” you manage your business, not is “what” is happening to your ... Views: 868
To achieve great things, you need a team. Building a winning team requires understanding of these principles. Whatever your goal or project, you need to add value and invest in your team so the end product benefits from more ideas, energy, resources, and perspectives.
1. The Law of ... Views: 868
When making a strategic plan, there are skills that are critical so that you can formulate the best plan and you can actually have all those skills when you hire a strategic planning consultant. When you have someone who is an expert in the field and someone who doesn't really work for your ... Views: 868
You may feel like a juggler when the workload pressure’s on in project management. Having to keep several balls in the air at the same time as you beaver away on several projects can be a tricky business. The advice is - never panic. In fact, you can actually enjoy the experience if you plan it ... Views: 867
Odoo ERP software is an all-inclusive Business management software which is ideally suited with all types of organizations and industries. Simply put, Odoo is a compilation of all functionality and apps we actually have to successfully run our enterprise. There are round two million clients ... Views: 867
Most vendors have come to rely on channel partners to help expand their business and increase sales. Vendors usually have hundreds and thousands of channel partners including wholesalers, resellers, retailers, VARs etc to help their business grow. Though vendors do feel that channel partners are ... Views: 866
The March 2006 issue of the Harvard Business Review had a great article by Robert Morison, Tamara Erickson, and Ken Dychtwald entitled "Managing Middlescence." Their article addressed the mid-career employees, aged 35 to 54, who "should be at their peak of productivity," but instead "are the ... Views: 865
MANAGING THE OVERLOAD
By
Bill Cottringer
“Offices, desks, drawers, attics, basements, table tops, backyards, closets, medicine cabinets, garages, mailboxes, minds…all getting full of clutter and spilling over.” ~The author.
Everything I read, see, think, talk about, and experience these ... Views: 865
As per Statistics, B2C E-commerce sales are anticipated to achieve almost 200 billion dollars by the year 2018, alone in the U.S. It is an evident truth that numerous clients now incline toward shopping through their 5-inch cell phones. Surely, Ecommerce mobile application company who hire ... Views: 865
Keeping your pipeline of prospects full is no easy task. I'm not going to suggest it is. I talk to salespeople all the time and most say that prospecting is their number one source of new business. So if you are like most salespeople, one of your hardest tasks is simultaneously one of your ... Views: 864
Monica, a mid-level manager, asked me to help her improve leadership skills by speaking at her regional meeting. She also told me of her plan to ask her managers to teach each other their favorite leadership skills during breakout sessions. Our conversation went like this...
Me, "What ... Views: 863
Another prominent feature of the QuickBooks Customer Service Phone Number unit is the QuickBooks Community which offers a range of solutions and advices to the customers. The QuickBooks community is an inter-woven web of customers and experts who provide help to other customers on any and every ... Views: 862
Any organization because warships and / or acquires products and services of any type needs to ensure that their shipping functions is going to be exacting additionally genuine. You can be confident this use thread sound is vital to successfully conserving popular demand everything located at ... Views: 860
"Above all, we know that an entrepreneurial strategy has more chance of success the more it starts with the users — their utilities, their values, their realities ... the test of an innovation is always what it does for the user...it is by no means hunch or gamble. But it is also not precisely ... Views: 860
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. Investors define ... Views: 860
I just got off the phone with a prospective client. They have serious employee and management retention issues. They have few managers with the right skills to be effective managers, let alone develop into effective leaders, they have a multitude of staff with less-than-effective front-line ... Views: 860
I know an insurance agent in my area who, every time we run into one another, asks me if I have any good ideas as to how to find new clients without actually having to talk to people. This guy is in the wrong business. He needs to re-evaluate his life and decide to either change his attitude or ... Views: 859
How can a successful company be defined? Most probably, most of the people would answer that success for a company means high revenues. Where do high revenues come from? It is very simple – high revenues come from sales and sales are achieved only when there are clients. This leads us to the ... Views: 859
We've all been there. After countless calls, meetings and an endless amount of work, you just can't get the customer to say "yes" and move forward. There can be hundreds of theories and ideas as to why this happens more times than we care to admit. Let's put all the theories aside and get to a ... Views: 859
All that we see or seem; is but a dream within a dream.
Those are some very famous words.
I have always wondered as to "Why the dream destinations attract people?" Is it some thing inside those people or it is in those destinations or both or something else.
Trust me, I did not have any ... Views: 858
Market research methods need to be chosen carefully, it could be qualitative or quantitative in nature. Descriptive research is a method of data collection used by market researchers across the globe. Descriptive research is a fact-finding investigation with adequate interpretation. It is the ... Views: 858
The Marketing Plan section of the business plan demonstrates how a company will penetrate the market with its products and services. The Marketing Plan should include “the four P’s” – Product, Promotions, Price, and Place.
Products and/or Services
The first “P” stands for Product, but ... Views: 858