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1551. Why Businesses Fail - And What You Can Do About It! By Maria Marsala
      Have you unintentionally set your business up for failure?No one sets out to fail! Most business owners read all the statistics (maybe more than once) before they open their doors. Many know the reasons why businesses fail. But some businesses operate under this paradigm: "failure can never happen to me because I know better." Is that you?What most business owners miss is looking at the reasons for business failure and turning them into action steps to help overcome the odds of failure. How do…



1552. How You Can Learn to be a Better Manager By Chris Anderson
      When you first take over a department, expectations are usually high but operations are sometimes in disarray. The staff is disorganized, goals aren’t being met, and hours are spent on unproductive tasks. Just when you think the company would never get on track, the CFO recommends that you learn more about something called operations assessment.Crucial Management Skills Help Avoid MistakesAt first, you aren’t sure how operational assessment skills would help you manage better, but you quickly …



1553. Delegate Tasks to the Right Person By Andrew E. Schwartz
      SELECTING THE RIGHT PERSON: To whom should tasks be delegated? Selecting the right subordinate to do the work is an evaluative process, and managers must be able to identify individuals both capable and willing to handle responsibility.DETERMINING EMPLOYEE RESPONSIBILITY: A careful review should be made of past assumptions about personnel. Some employees’ capabilities may be overestimated, others underestimated. A personnel survey or personal interview is an excellent tool managers can use to …



1554. The Seven C's: Partnership Danger Signs - Conflict Becoming the Norm – Part 1 By Dorene Lehavi
      A series of articles exploring the seven critical areas that can indicate a partnership is in trouble.Conflict Becoming the Norm – Part 1Dr. Dean Ornish, noted cardiologist, says the greatest cause of disease is the stress that comes from conflict. Conflict is bad for your health, your personal life and definitely bad for your business.When disagreements have reached the stage of conflict, emotions have overcome the issue. At this point no one is thinking clearly or speaking truthfully about t…



1555. Decision Making By Christopher J Thomas
      Recent studies have shown that industrial supervisors are working at less than 60 % of their potential. Basic management skills training is guaranteed to change all this and at such little costIntroductionOne of the world’s most memorable quotes is from Shakespeare's Hamlet - to be or not to be is all about a decision. It is a dramatic example of someone dealing with a critical decision. Freely making and executing a decision is at the very essence of human life.Only human beings have the dev…



1556. What Every Executive Should Know
      PERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required. Mail to: eagibbs@ureach.comWhen new executives join the team, they are full of promise. Their jobs offer new challenges. They dig up old and new problems and probe for solutions. They are fighters, workers, and dre…



1557. Stop Your Employee From Becoming Your Competitor By Woody Quinones
      You know the routine. You've hired an eager individual willing to come onboard and learn the business. You've taught them, trained them, worked hand in hand and side by side for 2 solid years. Then all of a sudden your employee quits for no apparent reason.To your disbelief and utter amazement, you realize that you have just wasted the last 2 years of your life. A week or so goes by and you learn that your former employee has started a similar business and there's nothing you can do to stop th…



1558. The Email Trap By Denise O'Berry
      If you sit at a computer for most of the day, it's tempting to constantly check your email to see what's new. But that's a time management disaster if you're trying to make progress in your business. Resist the temptation. Here are some tips to help you get that time eating monster under control.- Turn off email notification (like the beep or pop up screen). It's just like a ringing phone that demands to be answered. Even in the instant world that exists today, email can wait.- Establish a sch…



1559. People or Objects? - - You Decide
      'How you think determines how you act. How you act, in turn, determines how others react to you.'- David J. Schwartz – The Magic of Thinking Big'…no matter what we’re doing on the outside, people respond primarily to how we’re feeling about them on the inside.'- The Arbinger Institute – Leadership and Self-Deception --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Becoming a great leader requires people to behave in rather unnatural ways. Most people will focus on …



1560. Learn About Commercial Collections Agencies Fees By Steve Austin
      As with any other service, there are good and bad commercial collection agencies. Beware of any agency that offers you cut rate commissions far below the accepted Commercial Law League rates, offers you kickbacks on commissions, or makes outlandish promises about recovery success.You should investigate, evaluate and rate the commercial collection agencies that you plan to use just as carefully as you do with customers when you grant credit. Here are some suggestions: Use Commercial Collection …



1561. Time-Wasting Problems - One Question to Move You Forward By Martin Haworth
      In any organisation, progress is frequently impaired by the time taken up to resolve problems that occur again and again - usually with people's performance (or not!). At a macro level, there could just seem to be 'lots of problems', which is a symptom in itself. On a micro level, managers are often frustrated by the amount of time they spend fire-fighting, whilst the more creative work of planning, developing people, marketing and more are left way behind.There just isn't time. Build …



1562. Keeping Meetings On Track By Marcia Zidle
      We all have been in meetings with certain people who get our blood pressure to rise or just make us feel what a waste of time. Here are some of those people and hints on how you can maintain keep the meeting on track without coming across as a dictator or inept leader.Non-Stop Nora. Nora often begins on the agenda item, but then gets sidetracked on some other topic and is off and running. You think there is no really good way to tell her she’s off base and wasting everyone’s time without emb…



1563. Managing Creativity - An Oxymoron! Not By Kal Bishop
      Interrogated on a beach in Barbados by friends insistent that there was little validity to my speciality, I have felt compelled to answer the most common objections in the field of Managing Creativity and Innovation.a) Managing Creativity and Innovation is an oxymoron!When ideas are required, leaders tend to herd people into a room with a flip chart and conduct (usually an ineffective) brainstorming session. Implicit in this action is an acceptance that certain techniques and processes can inc…



1564. Meeting Your Corporate Needs By Ray La Foy
      So you have decided to make a career belonging to a corporation. Being part of corporation require you to be a team player and at the same time require you to take full responsibilities for all your actions. The sense of urgency and making deliveries on time are essentials in making it on any corporation. Another unwritten essential aspect of being in the corporate world is the ability to recognize the cutthroat competition out there.In order to have your head above water and out of the choppi…



1565. Creative Writing - business principles produce more quality work, faster By Kal Bishop
      Maximization methodologies have long been used in business to produce quantities of quality ideas, faster. Creative writers who want to rapidly produce quantities of quality work should apply these same principles.a) Waiting for inspiration creates less output than forcing inspiration.Simply engaging in the task generates ideas. By defining the work process, the author can frame the mind for the coming task and trigger the mind into searching for ideas on multiple cognitive levels. Creative Di…



1566. Appreciate to Motivate
      Appreciate to Motivate(Five Keys to Successful Team Building)Ed SykesMary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, since said, 'There are two things people want more than sex and money...recognition and praise.' Time and time again the one motivating factor that is at the top of most employee lists is appreciation for a job well done. It is more requested than the green stuff, money.Why don’t more managers, owners, and employees give appreciation? Some people state they don’t know how to give it…



1567. Are You Managing to Lead?
      Are You Managing to Lead?By Monty J. Sharp, Certified Comprehensive Coachhttp://www.workteamcoaching.com For many people, the terms “manager” and “leader” are synonymous. In the business world, they are often used interchangeably, i.e. “team leader”, “team manager”, “project manager” - you get the idea. And why not? After all, leaders and managers do basically the same thing, right?In some instances, there do seem to be commonalities between the two and management techniques are sometimes confus…



1568. Building A Practice On Purpose Series Part #6 - Forge A Practice On Purpose Operating System By Brad Swift
      We're all familiar with the importance of our computers having a dependable operating system, if for no other reason than we may have experienced the contrast of NOT having one. Operating systems are foundational to building a strong practice and life on purpose. While this article is about building such a system in your practice, don't forget that it's also vitally important to take the time and invest the energy into building and maintaining a similar personal foundation.Here's a skeletal …



1569. Balancing Technology, Management, and Leadership
      'The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.' -- Alfred North Whitehead, 19th century British mathematician and philosopher As Achieve (my first consulting company) was working with our Clients to implement Toward Excellence (the cultural change process we had developed in conjunction with Tom Peters) I was growing increasingly uneasy. Something didn't feel right. In In Search of Excellence, Peters and Waterman presented a powerful case against 'the ra…



1570. 7 Essential Elements of Leading Change By Michael Beitler
      In my practice as an organizational effectiveness consultant, the most frequent phone call I receive involves clients and prospective clients asking how to overcome resistance to change in their organizations.Throughout my book, Strategic Organizational Change, I recommend a strategy-driven approach to planning and implementing change. Unfortunately, many organizations do not follow a systematic approach (my approach or anybody else’s) for planning and implementing change.An Unworkable “Plan”M…



1571. Writing and Revising Your Life Story By David Krueger MD
      Change is not simple. Why do we repeat behavior that doesn't work? Those actions that lead to stifling debt, disappointing careers, or stuck relationships? Then do it harder, yet expect a different result? Why is it not obvious that trying to exit an old story by simply writing a “better ending” only recreates the same story, and ensures that we remain in it? That a thousand better endings to an old story don’t create a new story? That the past cannot be changed and is a settled matter? …



1572. Who Me, Difficult? Yes, You! By Pat Wiklund
      We all like to think we are easy to get along with. We don't make our co-workers lives difficult. But, chances are, if you find some of your co-workers hard to work with, someone will find you a challenge, too.You are not a challenge because you intentionally decided to be. In fact, the attributes and skills you consider to be your best strengths may be the very ones someone else finds difficult to deal with.See if you can find yourself in one (or more!) of the following profiles:* You c…



1573. Driving Corporate Performance with Employee Benefits
      In today's economy, companies of all sizes are facing a number of challenges that require urgent action. Health care costs are rising, pension obligations are growing and top talent is becoming increasingly difficult to recruit in the rebounding job market. Among the most significant business trends, competitive pressure on American workers is increasing at a rapid pace as offshore business process outsourcing (BPO) becomes more effective in performing traditional American jobs at much lower cos…



1574. "Group Decision Making" : Are the Decisions Really Made by the Group? By Andrew E. Schwartz
      GROUP DECISION-MAKING: Many managers feel they are well-versed in areas of group effort, such as problem-solving, goal-setting, and action planning. Frequently, however, the implementation of such techniques never seem to get beyond the initial stage. Often, this is because managers can not quite seem to understand that brainstorming or group decision-making requires comprehensive utilization of various processes. Managers may unknowingly find themselves perpetuating problems instead of solvin…



1575. Morale Boosters: Feed the Troops First By Marcia Zidle
      When economic conditions turn tough or when the heavy work load seems never-ending, leaders tend to forget the “basics”–building commitment beyond the paycheck. It’s the small things everyday that can bring down morale and it’s the small things everyday that can raise performance. A holiday party or picnic once or twice a year probably won’t do it. Rather, it’s a leader’s sincere recognition that employees are assets to be valued, not tools to be used up and discarded. Here are quick ways …



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