Addicted to Praise

Some experts think that the young people coming in to business today are narcissistic and addicted to praise. Are they right? And what does that mean for you as a manager?

Backpacking - How To Lighten Your Gear

How to minimize the weight of your backpack when hiking.

Influence Management - Your Fast Track to Greater Impact, Part 1

It's no coincidence that powerful people are very influential. One universal characteristic of influential people is that they don't struggle to get others to do things or to listen to their point of view - they just seem to make things happen. Influence is about changing the behavior of others; in other words, getting them to do what you want them to do in the absence of authority. To understand how to develop more influence, you must first become a bit of a student of human behavior, social science, and motivation.

Buying Or Selling A Small Business? Your Decisions Count

Few small business owners understand that their financial statements reveal guidelines for proper operation. When selling their business, few owners know how to select a broker. Proper guidance is essential when growing or selling a small business.

Job Made Easy With Practice Management Software

A unique story outlining the importance of having a medical practice management system and electronic medical record (emr) software installed in every medical practice. Read to find out why the healthcare industry needs to do more to implement medical practice management software into the industry.

Small Business Starting - Finding Employees with Skills to Do the Work

Employee turnover is a problem for small businesses especially if they are experiencing budgetary restrictions. For this and other reasons, most small business owners want to match the right employee with the job.

Can Businesses Afford To Think Like Consumers?

It should be no secret that successful business people do not think like consumers. We instinctively know that return on investment is more important than price. In spite of our instincts, there are those who would treat us like consumers, and we must avoid the folly they would otherwise plunge us into.

Memory Sticks - Sd Cards and Other Removable Media

ISO 27001 calls for controls to be implemented on removable media to stop unauthorised access/ transmission of data. It is not unknown for a disgruntled employee to download data containing commercial information onto some form of portable memory device just before leaving employment. This can be customer information, product information, designs or drawings.

Confined Space Safety Policy - The 9 Policy Headings

The confined space safety policy is needed in many industrial and manufacturing settings. Being comprehensive and efficient is key. This article outlines one such policy.

Performance Evaluations - Preparing for Difficult Conversations

Does the very thought of conducting a performance evalution cause your heart rate to elevate or give you a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach? Understanding how employees might respond to you will help you prepare and make performance evaluation time stress free.

Hostile Work Environments - Escalating Conflict and What You Can Do About It

Conflicts can spiral out of control. Find out how it happens and what you can do about it.

Social Network Analysis - Are You Important?

There is a reason why an IT organization is successful. The quality of relationships that IT leaders develop with each other, customers, and other business units directly relate to the success that the IT organization achieves as a whole.

Don't Let Your Sales Management Slip - In Good Times Or Bad

If your business is to both grow and be resilient in the face of whatever might come around the corner in the future continual prospecting for new customers is simply essential. The conventional wisdom is that every business needs to have its sales force spent 20% of their time prospecting that's one day a week!

What's A Salesman Daddy?

Don't have an inferiority complex if you are in sales, be proud. Here is what selling truly means

What is the Purpose of Dr. Deming's Theory of Management?

As a statistician, Dr. Deming's lifelong mission had been to seek sources of improvement. World War II had quickened the pace of quality technology, but as World War II ended, progress in quality control began to wane. Many companies saw it as a wartime effort and felt that it was no longer needed in a booming market. Given the failure of statistical methods for quality control to endure, he figured out what might have caused the failure and how to avoid it in the future. He gradually concluded that what was needed was a bedrock philosophy of management, with which statistical methods were consistent. He was ready with new principles to teach when the Japanese called him in 1950 to aid in the reconstruction of their country. The aim of Dr. Deming's theory of management also known as, System of Profound Knowledge, challenges leaders to embrace a new paradigm...