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 →

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


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