Motivate Your Employees And Keep Them

Learn how to handle with restaurant management and employment problems.

Are You Sleeping Alone - Techie Issues Split The Bedsheets

Do you spend every waking hour working, and every sleeping hour thinking about it? Maybe you need to restructure your priorities and find time for your partner.

Do Your People Skills Match Your Contracting Skills?

How many times have you as a contractor had to bite your tongue? This 'biting of your tongue' and not saying exactly what you're feeling has probably saved your business. How so? Well, put yourself in your customer's boots. If you weren't happy with some job that a contractor had done for you, do you seriously think if they went 'head to toe' with you in an argument trying to convince you that you should be happy with what you ended up with, do you seriously think they would convince you?

Can Leadership be Measured?

Organizations depend on leadership for direction, momentum and a plan for sustainable success. How do we recognize leadership exists? How do we develop leadership? How can leadership be measured? These are questions this article seeks to explore.

Role Of Metrics In Decision Making And Management

Information is power. In most cases, information is made up of building blocks of numbers. These numbers, when arranged in a meaningful way, tell a story and that is the information that is useful to businesses as well as individuals. The numbers and the ratios that are used to construct meaningful information is commonly referred to as Metrics. This note is a brief introduction to the role numbers and metrics have come to play in every day life.

The Key Reasons Why Cios Get Fired And What To Do About Them - Part 1

John covers the main reasons why CIOs get fired, their root causes and how best to avoid them.

Management Diets Don't Deliver

Just as most of us know what it really takes to lose weight, most are also aware of what is necessary to manage well. Both things are simple, but they are by no means easy. Much as being healthy requires a lifestyle change and a return to the basics, so does being a good manager.

Somebody - Somewhere - Save Our Business!

It may seem like the drama is unfolding from afar but it is crucial that all staff have a role to play in the creation and development of emergency plans.

The Importance of a Customer Focused Vision

It takes commitment and an obsession about customers to win business. Over the years, my experiences have taught me that it is simple to create a customer-focused culture, but it certainly isn't easy. If a company gets it right, however, the customers and profits will be easy to attract and keep.

Get 'Em Organized Through Business Card Holders

Who doesn't have a business card? Business cards are the most affordable, portable, and versatile tool for self-marketing. No other medium for exchanging contact information is as readily accepted as the business card. Over the years, the role of business cards in every conceivable industry has only gained more importance. Today, a business card is no longer a means for leaving contact information. It has been turned many times into an ad, a mini-coupon, a brochure, or even a CD-rom presentation. Business cards have become the hip and cheap way to grab attention and keep it.

Opening a Dollar Store - Keeping Up With Marketplace Changes

Many new entrepreneurs who are examining the options regarding starting a business find it challenging to determine the exact market and the right business within that market. Once that decision is made there are challenges ahead. Few realize that identifying the right market is really just the beginning! They think that they will be opening a dollar store and that no further market data and knowledge will be required after that decision is made.

Effective Problem Solving

As a manager and leader, problem solving is a core part of your role. So what are the key steps in effective problem solving?

Teleconferencing Helps You Build a Business Empire

You balk as you look at the phone bill. In the three months it took your company to branch out to a location three continents away from where you are, you've spent enough money on phone bills to buy both an apartment in New York and a Porsche. What worries you the most is that you know this isn't the end of the story, or your phone bills. With key members of your staff calling each other almost every hour, you know those bills would remain as high as your blood pressure level.

Why We'll Beat the Fast-Rising, Tech-Savvy Underdeveloped Countries

This article expresses the turn-around underway in how US companies will regain our position as the number one economic engine in the world.

Deadlines Matter, But Only If You Enforce Them

Imagine if your local newspaper didn't show up one morning because those operating the press at the paper just didn't make their deadlines? How would you feel? What would happen to those employees the next day? Imagine if all of the local gas stations had bags over the nozzles because the deliver trucks were behind on their deadline and the pumps were empty? How would you feel? We take for granted that some suppliers we count on always make their deadlines, so why are we not as expectant for our business deadlines to be met?