Managing Reality - Learning to Love Our Mistakes

Too often I see and hear the impact of leaders not managing what lies in front of them. Rather, they manage what they would like to see or imagine is there. The consequence is usually underperformance. Characteristics accompanying it include crisis management, poor and late decision making.

How to Love Your Employees

Today's labor force is a new generation. How can we make them productive? This article provides solutions to motivating employees for management professionals.

Christian Business Basics - Having the Right Attitude

Christian Business Basics - Having the Right Attitude When it comes being a Christian in business, one of the things that will help you reach your goals and face the inevitable trials that life will throw in you pathway is to maintain the right attitude. One way to do that is to be convinced of your purpose in life.

Management - Five Things Great Manager's Do

Are you a great manager? Think so? You're not if you're not doing these five things! Read on and see for yourself ...

Delegation with Confidence - Five Essential Steps

The effective manager is one who understands his or her limitations and has confidence in both their ability to delegate and their subordinates. There are five steps that insure that the delegation process will yield the best results for the manager and the recipient of delegated tasks.

What's in Your Culture?

Many managers unwittingly breed a culture of fear, distrust and disloyalty which results in inferior performance. There are simple steps one can take to guard against a climate of fear while creating a climate of success.

6 Questions To Answer For A Knockem Dead Executive Summary

Call it what you will; Executive Summary, Executive Overview, etc. but it is the first thing read in most proposals. These few pages set the tone for the remainder of the proposal and, admit it or not, it can be the only part of the proposal a busy evaluator actually reads. All too often more time is spent arguing over when it should be written than what it should contain.

Distribution Leadership - Lead Wolf - Lone Wolf or the Narcissist

CEOs or Presidents, who attain positions of power, reach these positions for a variety of reasons. The reasons are not always a result of competency and hard work; these positions are not always earned. As a result employees find themselves under the rule of various kinds of leaders. Even those leaders that have earned their position can be impossible to work for and it’s difficult to be happy and satisfied doing it. Presidents and CEOs are typically seen as sources of motivation and direction. But what's often overlooked is the fact that they not only motivate their management team but they receive motivation and even direction based on the responses from the employees below them.

Supply Chain Risk Management: An Introduction

Risk management concepts have been around for several years since now, but they have generally been bounded to the financial or safety area. Today, the supply chain is where risk management is assuming a critical role, since it is where risk becomes most damaging for a company. Despite this, supply chain managers have so far kept on striving their efforts on efficiency gains, responding to the cost squeeze at the expense of increasing the risk of disruptions. This article provides a brief overview of some basic concepts related to Supply Chain Risk Managment (SCRM).

Management And Guiding Principles

All management is based on guiding principles. This is true whether the principles are appropriate or inappropriate, reasonable or unreasonable, consistent or inconsistent. This article will help you understand the most appropriate guiding principles and how to use effective strategies to assure organizational excellence and better assure your success as a manager.

Leadership Skills Develop At An Early Age

Employers are fulfilling their legal obligations, but are failing to embrace the business benefits that a diverse workforce can bring.

An Eight-Point Guide To Successful Staff Management

Without strong direction and motivation, any hotel, is doomed for failure, an operation is successful only when a good leader surrounds themselves with other good leaders, and good leaders surround them selves with good staff.

Six Sigma For The Service Sector

Not just for manufacturing anymore, Six Sigma has begun being used in the service sector. This article gets to the heart of how and why Six Sigma can effectively be used to enhance services offered.

The Big Sign

The Big Sign was one of those learning situations. There's so much to business and so much to learn. We ended up with a huge sign on our building.

Clearing Your Desk - Clearing Your Mind - Clearing For Action!

This article will show you a simple way of increasing your personal effectiveness. Clearing your desk will clear your mind and you wil be ready for action! Prepare the way for effective time management. You will have more time for your business and its management.