Management
Beware of a Laissez-Faire Management Style
If there?s anything that will prevent a company from optimizing its bottom line, it is a laissez-faire management style. In other words: a propensity among company managers to avoid too much interference in employee behavior. Read more →Beware of the 'Changing of the Guard'
"Its never lonely at the top of an IT organization, primarily because the IT Director is never there." - Bryce's LawINTRODUCTIONIn past bulletins, I have discussed how the corporate culture can be greatly influenced by the "Top Dog," meaning the head of the company. Read more →Beyond Management Coaching: When Things Are Getting Out of Control
Leaders and Managers often ask us, ?What do you do when you have tried to coach and counsel an employee about a performance concern, and the employee has not responded? Read more →Big Company Intelligence on a Small Company Budget
Information is the lifeblood of the economy. That?s especially true for businesses, because the ability to identify current customers and locate new prospects makes the difference between boom and bust. Read more →Biometric Time Clocks
Overhead costs for most companies spell the difference between business viability and inability to be competitive in the market. No matter how much revenue flows into the business, if the costs of production, marketing, and research are too high, the company loses profit. Read more →Biometrics and "Return On Investment"
At this time of tight budgets, the mantra of business is ?Return On Investment!? With few exceptions, expenditures are measured against the bottom line. Read more →Birds of a Feather May Be Turkeys
Birds of a Feather May Be TurkeysBy Gene Griessman, PhD ?Birds of a feather do flock together. It's true. Given a choice, most of us will seek out people who think like we do, people with whom we feel comfortable, those we won't quarrel with. Read more →Bite Your Tongue; They Might Think You are Arrogant
Often people think others are arrogant when they will not hear their advice or point of view. Yet in a way that is an arrogant thought in itself. You see if you believe that your advice is so important that the other person MUST listen to you then are you being arrogant that your advice is above any other persons advice? Read more →Bits and Pieces: How Project Management Developed
Could the Crusades have been launched and the soldiers armed and fed without effective project management? Could the Great Wall have been built with ingenious natural materials and a team of millions over a span of a thousand years without project management? Read more →Blame Culture Blues - How the Language of Blame Manifests Organisational Underperformance
If you have ever worked within a large organisation then you are sure to have heard the term 'we will not have a blame culture' at some point. However the sheer fact that this statement can be made is an indication that a blame culture already exists. Read more →1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368
Aphorism
By periodically investing in an index fund, for example, the know-nothing investor can actually out-perform most investment professionals. Paradoxically, when "dumb" money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.
Warren Buffett
