Business outsourcing is a widely known compelling strategic management option several companies are adopting nowadays. From small to large scale establishments, they have been using it to continually maintain their stable status in todays overly competitive market. Its emerging power as a...

Learn from the Olympics How to Organize your Events: Part 2 of 3 – Planning a Profitable Event

In the first part of this series, we looked at the logistics of an event, both the logistics of fans getting to the event, and the internal logistics allowing fans to move from one item of...

Learn from the Olympics How to Organize your Events: Part 1 of 3 – Planning Event Logistics

With the Winter Olympic Games in Torino underway, on time and over budget, it feels like a good time to take a minute and look at the lessons the Olympics have to teach us about managing...

In this age, there is a lot of focus on the importance of getting organized. There are even professional organizers for hire! Labels are a huge presence in the field of organization, because they enable everything to be tagged and put in its place. From birthday party invitations to mass market...

Most people dread performance appraisals because it is tiring and tedious, and people believe their jobs may be on the line. Of course, performance appraisals are really quite useful because management can fully make sense out of the things that have been happening in the company. Through a...

Have you ever wanted a short list of of items to keep “in check” as you are managing projects? This short list would contain key measures which, if always kept in check and balance, would lead you to project success? Sure it is important to follow industry project guidelines from the...

Key Employees can and will leave your Business, are you prepared?

Very few businesses can claim to be prepared for the loss of key employees. Quite often it is an unexpected and unplanned for event that causes quite a bit of disruption to ‘business as usual’.

It is...

Ahh, we all remember the bully from grade school who performed his usual schoolyard shake down on anyone who was intimidated enough to make with the lunch money or go home with a shiner on the eye. However, many of our childhood stories of bullies end up in some kid finally having the courage to...

Every place I go, if Im in an organization long enough, Ill hear people lament about the lack of accountability. Specifically, I hear things like: They just dont seem to care enough, I guess. Those action items never get done I dont know why we even identify them. I have trouble getting...

Yes, its ok to allow yourself the luxury of being enthusiastic, light hearted, inspired, relaxed and happy at workplace. If you dont do this, you are self-denying your true potential.

Its unfortunate that many people think that a happy demeanor at office would appear Strong and out of...

(speed) n. 1. Mathematics & Physics. Distance traveled divided by the time of travel. 2. Business & Life. The ratio of results to time invested.

Speed is distance (results) divided by time, period. Some leaders confuse this with the fools gold formula: action divided by time....

There was only a week to go before the major product launch and Sara had a concern; a phrase she used when she was shaking in her boots with sheer panic. She had been checking with all of the presenters to make sure that their presentations were well into development, if not complete and,...