Rising Above The Minutia

Minutia If it's not a city in Wisconsin, what is it? In any case, how do you avoid getting stuck in it?

Maximize Teamwork and Project Data Management with Online Collaboration Suite

Provides comprehensive information on collaboration suite and features to look in for in online collaboration suite. Also offers tips for buying the right collaboration suite for your business.

Effective Online Six Sigma Training

Six Sigma implementation projects are meant for reducing wastage in business processes. However, for ensuring the success of Six Sigma implementations, it is necessary to provide adequate training to everyone involved with the implementation.

How Do You Know It's Time To Fire A Client?

As a business owner, you're no longer sitting in your too-small cubicle waiting to be called to HR for yet another downsizing in yet another company. No more being told when you can take lunch, make a personal call or, heavens forbid, go to the bathroom. Owning your own business comes with lots of perks. One of them that is frequently overlooked however is that you now have the ability to fire a client.

Lease Or Buy - Which Way For Office Equipment Procurement?

Many companies have found that leasing is a favourable option, when considering the acquisition of high-value office equipment and other business machinery. Several options now exist where leasing can provide the best overall value for money.

Is Your Underperforming Employee Incompetent Or Is It AADD

Mistakenly, people have believed that ADD was a childhood condition that often disappeared at the onset of adulthood. That is not always the case. It has been proven that ADD often persists into adulthood and can have a dramatic impact on an employee's performance at work. It has been reported that more than 50 percent of children diagnosed with ADD carry the condition well into their adult lives. However, ADD in adults is difficult to recognize. Sometimes when an employee has difficulty starting a task, staying focused and following through it is simply considered poor performance or incompetence. The inability to pay attention for long periods of time is a common symptom of ADD. The inability to complete assignments, lack of organization and talking excessively are also common symptoms.

Work At Home Tips To Getting Things Done Everyday

One major hurdle working at home is going to provide you is how do you get things done. I'm talking about accomplishing things everyday working for yourself just like you would if you were a job with a boss to answer to. Here are some tips to help you get things done everyday while working at home.

A 10 Point Diagnostic For Your Business

Most businesses can benefit from a regular health check - a business diagnostic to identify priorities and potential solutions for better performance. Here is a list of 10 check points and some approaches to consider for raising your business performance to the next level.

Myopic Madness

Imagine, you have created something that is state of the art. The envy of the industry. You spared no expense and focused on every detail. Everyone says It's a can't miss smash success! Everyone applauds your launch, customers wishing they could be the first to use your product, and you are ready to make money by the vault-load. What could go wrong?

The Difference Between Moving Bolts and Moving People

Those who attempt to apply mechanical principals to managing and motivating people will find that the laws of physics seldom apply to influencing human decision making.

5 Tips on How to Choose Which Wholesale Promotional Products to Offer

Promotional products are given away primarily to create and sustain interest in a company's products and services. They can be the products itself or, and this happens more frequently than usual, specially made products that are imprinted with the company's name and manufactured exclusively to serve as giveaways.

Why Businesses Succeed!

How does a small company become successful? It's such a provocative question that it prompted me to do some research. Despite the bad news we so often hear about businesses closing or moving, I found some encouraging news. After interviewing and working with many small companies, common trends began to emerge regarding what they did to be successful. There are a total of fourteen principles and the successful companies implement most, of not all of these principles: attitude, sales, business strategy, marketing, information technology, risk taking, process improvement, company culture, work-life balance, customer service, finance and budget, general advice, discipline and training.

Motivation or Inspiration

Motivation or Inspiration? Is your job as a manager to motivate or inspire your staff to excellence? Or, is it both? In this article we discuss the role of each as we lead and manage teams.

When Business Is Slumping, Make Sure Your Assets Are Producing

When many companies go downhill, they never recover. Far too many of them continue to fall right into oblivion. They either go out of business or just become irrelevant companies. We saw this vividly in the 2001 bear market. The vast majority of the Internet companies were gone within a year.