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Author :: Cameron Switzer  |
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| Article Title :: Innovation for Global Business: Meeting the Ever-Increasing Demands of Clients - A Case Study |
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| I have been working in the global eyeglass manufacturing industry, supplying raw materials, parts and accessories to distributors and manufacturers around the world, since 1999. When I first began, there were manufacturer pockets around the globe in various countries. As time went by, like many industries, the demand for cheaper products consistently bore weight on the drive to decrease cost, which led to manufacturing in China. The economies of scale as well as the very low cost of manual labor helped to drive the exodus to China. Difficult products are still being manufactured in small clusters around the world, however the "meat and potatoes", the "grunt work" has moved offshore to Chi (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Michael Brooke |
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| Article Title :: Being Proactive for Supervisors & Others - Part 3 |
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| Before you can start advising others how to get their act together, you need to ensure that you have got your act together. i.e. you need to walk the talk and set a good example. Now that you have a good idea of what supervisors need to do to be good supervisors, let us explore some basic qualities needed to make a person a positive, capable, responsible, diligent person, whether he/she is a supervisor or not."Being Proactive" is covered in this article; "Being Productive" will follow.Proactive DefinedProactive means that as human beings, we are responsible for our own lives, and are not led around blindly by others. Our behavior is largely a function of our own decis (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Don Doman |
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| Article Title :: Help! I'm In Charge of Human Resources - What'll I Do Now? |
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| Out of the blue in addition to your other responsibilities you've been placed in charge of Human Resources. This happens within many small businesses as they begin to grow. Someone is given a title, perhaps with a remark, "I know you will do well." Don't panic. You are not alone. And luckily there are resources available to you . . . and you probably will do well.You need to take Human Resources seriously, but not to the point that it immobilizes you like a deer in the headlights of an oncoming car. As you gather your wits about you and begin making plans, there are two main areas you should be aware of: legal issues and improving your workforce. Actually, consider the two main ar (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Fazli Sameer |
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| Article Title :: The Business Calendar |
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| THE NEW CALENDARWe have been following the Christian Gregorian Calendar for almost 2000+ years now and it sure is a non standard way of counting the days, months and years as it is based on the solar year which is defined by the time taken for the earth to make one complete revolution round the sun.Now, this calendar becomes klutzy because of the fact that the twelve months don't conform to an equal number of days and also the leap year factor of Feb 29 which is necessary every four years to keep it in synch with the solar year.Why is it necessary to be in synch with the seasons for a calendar whose basic purpose is to count time? Wouldn’t it be convenient and usefu (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Cameron Switzer |
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| Article Title :: The World of Digital I.T. will NEVER Best the World of Analog H.E.A.R.T. |
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| The book I am reading, "The World is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman, talks all about how technology since 1991 has dramatically and radically ripped asunder and irrevocably changed the face of the globe. It has opened everything up to new potential never-before imagined. Especially since about the year 2000, things have begun changing so fast that people and companies are now able to do things that they never could have dreamed of "just a few years ago". It is all happening so fast, in fact, that it is almost impossible to keep up with the changes. But, says Friedman, you must keep up otherwise you lose your advantage and the other three billion people out there who have just recently come o (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Graeme Nichol |
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| Article Title :: Paradigms or Bust |
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| It’s amazing, people we meet and know are all striving for success, in business or their personal lives but they rarely achieve it. Or rarely do they think they have achieved it.
Why is this? They have a mindset that holds them back. We read about this and similar statements and then laugh it off as some mumbo jumbo foo foo stuff.Why? Well probably because of our education and backgrounds. The more educated we are the more we ask; “How can that #@$bleeping stuff be of any value to me?” Then we realize that in many ways our education was designed to create workers who didn’t challenge the conventions and wisdoms!One of the powerful mental attitudes we have is our ind (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Graeme Nichol |
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| Article Title :: Execution or Exit |
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| After Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan published Execution – The discipline of getting things done (ISBN 0-609-61057-0), in 2002, every business on this planet rushed out and dropped copies off to their managers and said “Execute” the quieter implication was, “…or exit.”Why did this happen? Well most managers realize that there is a gap between where they are and where they’d like to be.So did handing out gazillions of copies of the book suddenly turn us into a world of executioners? No, of course not. If the managers who passed around the book had taken the time to read more than the title they would have realized there is a mountain of work to do to become execut (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Graeme Nichol |
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| Article Title :: The Blind Men and the Elephant |
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| The Blind Men and the ElephantIt was six men of Indostan
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind.The First approached the Elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl:
“God bless me! But the Elephant
Is very like a wall!”The Second feeling the tusk,
Cried, “Ho, what have we here,
So very round and smooth and sharp?
To me ‘tis mighty clear
This wonder of an Elephant
Is very like a spear!”The Third approached the animal,
And happening t (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Michael Russell |
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| Article Title :: Successful Payroll Management |
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| Any business owner that has employees, knows that payroll can be a complicated task to manage. Moreover, it can be downright frustrating if you are not sure exactly where you should begin. Yet, successful payroll management doesn't have to be a chore. Further, you can find significant advice pertaining to successful payroll management online.Did you know that there are associations that can guide you in the proper direction in terms of successful payroll management? For example, the American Payroll Association provides a website that addresses myriad issues pertaining to the payroll process. They also provide information to individuals interested in a career in payroll mana (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Greg Ballard |
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| Article Title :: When Good Employees Go Bad - Maslow's Ladder |
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| When a good employee starts performing poorly, it may be something outside the workplace that is causing his performance to suffer. Is his marriage in trouble? Does he have crushing debt? Did a parent recently die? You will learn this only if you talk directly to the employee. If you are respected and trusted, he should have no trouble confiding in you.An excellent guide to diagnose the behavior of the employee is Maslow’s Ladder. Abraham Maslow was a psychologist who studied successful people, unlike some other famous psychologists who studied less successful or mentally ill people. Maslow believed that people are basically good and that their actions could be explained b (read full article) |
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