Can Leadership be Measured?

Organizations depend on leadership for direction, momentum and a plan for sustainable success. How do we recognize leadership exists? How do we develop leadership? How can leadership be measured? These are questions this article seeks to explore.

Management Diets Don't Deliver

Just as most of us know what it really takes to lose weight, most are also aware of what is necessary to manage well. Both things are simple, but they are by no means easy. Much as being healthy requires a lifestyle change and a return to the basics, so does being a good manager.

Grow Your Subordinate's Competence by Being Less Tolerant

When does your consideration for a subordinate or colleague's feelings, as a trade-off for being honest about their poor performance or behaviour become counter productive?

Opening a Dollar Store - Keeping Up With Marketplace Changes

Many new entrepreneurs who are examining the options regarding starting a business find it challenging to determine the exact market and the right business within that market. Once that decision is made there are challenges ahead. Few realize that identifying the right market is really just the beginning! They think that they will be opening a dollar store and that no further market data and knowledge will be required after that decision is made.

Great Managers Lead Differently

Great managers get repeatable real time results by doing things differently than conventional wisdom. This article defines how great managers use what we know but refuse to practice. This select group of managers walks a different path that often defies the conventional wisdom of current business practices.

Teleconferencing Helps You Build a Business Empire

You balk as you look at the phone bill. In the three months it took your company to branch out to a location three continents away from where you are, you've spent enough money on phone bills to buy both an apartment in New York and a Porsche. What worries you the most is that you know this isn't the end of the story, or your phone bills. With key members of your staff calling each other almost every hour, you know those bills would remain as high as your blood pressure level.

The Key to Online Success - Stop Being Evil

Could online America actually be helping us? In a wondrous twist of fate, evil corporations are being forced to do some good to stay alive.

Why We'll Beat the Fast-Rising, Tech-Savvy Underdeveloped Countries

This article expresses the turn-around underway in how US companies will regain our position as the number one economic engine in the world.

The Most Common Client Objections and How to Deal With Them

If your prospects have objections, it means they are considering hiring you or purchasing your product. If they weren't interested, they wouldn't waste their time inquiring -- especially in today's world where they can be on your website one second and on someone else's the next.

How To Recruit The Best People

In many sectors and industries recruiting good quality staff is a real challenge. Sadly, many organisations have more rigour around petty cash expenditure than one of their biggest investment decisions. So how can you stand out from the crowd?

Micromanagement

Recently, I had some business friends complain to me how their employees cannot follow directions. But on the other hand, I also know a lot of people who wonder why management doesn't trust them to do their job properly. You see this not only in the corporate world but in nonprofit organizations as well. Today, managers are spending more time supervising the work of others as opposed to actually managing them.

Tips to Locate Resources for Application of Improvement Tools and How to Overcome Problem

This is a short article about tips to locate TQM articles in dealing with application of improvement Tools and How to overcome problem associated with them.

What Constitutes a Learning Organization

The thinking behind organizational learning.

Make Room for New Ideas - Encouraging Creativity in the Workplace

Creativity is the basis for innovative products and services. How can managers build practical creative thinking skills in the workplace? By following some radical, simple and yet very powerful steps you are ready to 'Make Room for New Ideas'.