Powerful Pens: A Sample Cover Letter for Your Needs

Whether you are applying for a job or for funding, whether you are presenting business papers or an artist’s portfolio, you cannot expect the recipient to know your purpose for applying or showing such things immediately. In all these cases and more, you need a suitable, polite, and persuasive cover letter.

Business Productivity: Web 2.0 QuickList

My goal is to completely move online with all of the applications I use to do my job. I am missing the following applications: Photoshop, Quicken and Quickbooks are all that are left. Then, I am free to use a super cheap PC or Mac to do my work.

How To Be Your Own Virtual Assistant

How do you gain the momentum of hiring help, without spending any money right now?

The Business Letter: Still A Valuable Communication Tool

The letter has traditionally been the central vehicle for written messages in the world of business. In fact, it still is. Even today, in spite of the continuing growth in e-mail, text messaging and other technologies, when we want to send important information in writing to people outside our companies or organizations, the business letter is still the best choice.

Swing Into Spring

Are you ready for a new season in your business? It's that time of year when a confluence of events occur. We have the fever of March Madness combined with the eternal hope of Spring Training. This is the time to step up to the plate. To get in the game. Make March count. Create March Madness in your business. Use this Spring Training to prepare for a GREAT Season.

Traditional Wholesale Trading Vs Drop Shipping

This article describes drop shipping and traditional wholesale trading, enumerates the advantages and disadvantages of each, relative to the other, and offers new alternatives as well.

Simple Is Beautiful

Because business is wasteful, and because complexity and waste feed on each other, a simple business will always be better than a complex business. Because scale is normally valuable, for any given level of complexity, it is better to have a larger business. The large and simple business is the best.

Presenteeism - An Under-the-Radar Challenge to Your Productivity

As if absenteeism doesn't provide enough management challenges, now we have presenteeism. It's the loss of productivity for those workers who are present.

Are You Ready for a Paperless Office?

Many business owners think the epitome of a smooth operating office is a paperless one. They want to throw away their file cabinets and storage facilities in favor of keeping everything on computer disks. While this sounds like a wonderful way to run a business, you have to decide if going paperless is right for your company?

Five Random New Ideas

A power nap center, a new kind of answering machine and mosquito blood DNA testing for crimes are some of the new ideas in this article.

Flowers Create a Great Environment at Work

Working in an office can be a great way to keep your bills paid and generate funds for recreational time, but whether you are a corporate CEO, the administrative assistant, or the mail room clerk, it is important to your personal well being and to your level of productivity to have an inspiring work environment.

The Role of Organizational Design in 21st Century Organizations

How we understand organizational design is in the midst of radical change. Just as the industrial revolution in England and the Unites States changed predominantly agricultural societies to urban societies forever, so is the availability of knowledge markets changing the industrial landscape. History supports the lure of industry pulling large population groups away from farming. Industry made the growth of cities possible. The role of organizational design in contemporary 21st century corporations is to streamline and simplify vertical and linear structure. Traditional lines of supervision tend to create walls or silos, which block free movement of knowledge and block bilateral relationships. In this century, a worker enjoying the sun in Luxemburg City Park may have a work partner in Tokyo. Instant global communications means they can work seamlessly, together, a world apart.

You'll Never Get Stuck In Email Traffic Again

Master Your Inbox was created out of the understanding that the vast majority of the people at the workplace are getting more emails than they can handle. We belief that Outlook is the most neglected software on the planet, because nobody invest the time to learn it properly. The result is that the people are frustrated, permanently distracted by email and literally held hostage by their inbox.

After Effects Of Adoption Of Advanced Manufacturing Execution System In An Organization

The author addresses the after effects that manufacturing establishments receive as the result of adopting advanced technology.