Management

A Manager's Guide to Managing Redundancy
Ignore at your perilMany British businesses have been slow to appreciate the full extent of changes that have occurred over the years to Employment Law and continue to adopt out of date disciplinary and redundancy procedures. Read more →
A New Focus for 2006?
Over the past few months, when speaking at conferences, I?ve had a number of conversations with franchisees and operators about drive-thru times. Many of these folks are focused on total time, and they believe suggestive selling slows times down. Read more →
A New Look at an Old Question by an Ancient Project Manager: Why Use a Translation Agency?
?It seems unbelievable that this huge project was accomplished on time. I was asking a lot of you and you did a great job. Not only did it get done, you managed to make me feel like it really could be done, which made me calm in a sea of mounting pressure from my senior management. Read more →
A One Minute Self Assessment on Personal Productivity
Although I would rather not choose and take events as they come, I have learned that choice is inevitable. With utilities like Internet choosing is becoming even more difficult. Read more →
A Process for Continuous Innovation and Controlled Chaos is Built on a Service Ethic
"Now, more than ever, management is a balancing act ? the juggling of contradictions to try to get the best of attractive but opposing alternatives. Order is a temporary illusion, strategy a moving target. Read more →
A Project Management Rule: Collaborate
Really collaborate. Make it your rule to plan with those people who will be the performers of the plan. Don?t wait ?til the project has gone south to get their help. Read more →
A Rare Leadership Skill: Dealing With People Who Want Out By Offering Crowns For Convoy
As a leader, you'll inevitably be faced with people wanting to leave your team or organization. Dealing with the challenge is critical for your leadership success. Read more →
A Real Business Coach
I try to write articles that will be of help to the business owner and I believe this one will, too. It may sound a little self serving at times because, after all, I am a business coach. Read more →
A Reliable Process to Define and Implement Your Vision for the Future
Ever struggle with trying to clearly discern and define a realistic and viable vision for the future of your organization? Many leaders lead ?by-the-seat-of-their-pants. Read more →
A Renewed View of the Modern Business Culture
Life can sometimes be unexciting if not refreshed by the will to create according to one's own conscience and freedom. Often, the power of passion fuses into unexciting or appealing activities. Read more →

Aphorism

Reporters would say, you mean they gave you guys a Nobel Prize for something as obvious as that [Modigliani & Miller theorem of corporate valuation]? And I’d add, Yes, but remember, we proved it rigorously.

Merton Miller


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