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Author :: Ryan Leibowitz  |
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| Article Title :: Project Management - You Give Me The Feature Creeps |
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| The quality of the project management you have integrated into your industry or department can mean the difference between holding out and thriving in a very cut throat industry that you serve. It's very crucial to understand the evolution of a project management lifecycle and avoid skirting or skipping important upfront issues from the outset.It's also very important to understand the concept of not over dissecting a problem or being paralyzed to a point where further action is not being executed. A dreadful opponent to you in this case would be "Feature Creep" where individuals from the department keep changing their minds on requirements or have new ideas on better ones.B (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Lorraine Pirihi |
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| Article Title :: How to Look After Your People so They Look After Your Business |
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| Imagine being supported in your business by a team that were reliable, competent, communicated effectively with clients and colleagues, had heaps of initiative and a great attitude.No, this is not a pipe dream. It can happen for you. However it takes an investment of time and energy on your part to create a strong, supportive and valuable team…It doesn’t happen by osmosis.In many of my public workshops on How to Have Less Mess, Less Stress and More Success we often have disgruntled employees attend. It’s not that they don’t want to be at the presentation, in fact they gain heaps of benefit from being there. They are frustrated in their workplaces because their bosses (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Wendy Betterini |
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| Article Title :: Are Your Comfort Zones Hindering Your Business? |
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| Let's face it, there are things that we don't always enjoy doing in our day-to-day business routines. Perhaps you are confused by accounting and have papers strewn all over your desk or stuffed in a drawer. Maybe you're afraid to pick up the phone and call potential clients, even though you know it will result in some much-needed sales. Or you know you need to hire an assistant, but you cringe at the thought of turning over the "controls" to someone else.All of us have the tendency to form "comfort zones" around ourselves: boundaries between what makes us feel comfortable, and uncomfortable. Comfort zones are not always bad. Sometimes they can prevent us from doing something stupid (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Steve Gillman |
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| Article Title :: Hiring Rental Property Management |
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| Why hire rental property management? Because doing it all yourself is the surest way to make your real estate investment experience a bitter one. You also have more time to find the next deal when there is someone taking care of the details for you. Hire a good property manager, but first ask the following questions.1. How much is the fee? Fees vary around the country from as low as 4% of gross rents for larger buildings, to as high as 12% for single family homes. Be sure the fee is clearly stated and understood.2. What other properties do they manage? It is best if they handle rental properties that are similar to yours. It is also helpful to drive by their other properties (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Steve Kaye |
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| Article Title :: What to Ask Before Attending a Meeting |
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| Managers spend much of their time in meetings. But some junior staff use meetings to showcase themselves. Or they invite their boss to help with work that they should be doing. In either case, such meetings waste your time.Here are five questions that you (or your assistant) must ask before agreeing to attend a meeting.1) Where is the agenda? A meeting without an agenda is like a journey without a map; it will always waste your time. Once you have the agenda, make sure that it consists of more than a list of words because this is almost useless. The agenda for an effective meeting provides a complete description of how the meeting will proceed.2) What is the goal? Is (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Alan Fairweather |
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| Article Title :: Managing People - Forget The "Sandwich" Technique |
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| Do you remember being told to use the "sandwich" technique when you needed to reprimand someone? Let me give you an example: "Fred, I'm really pleased with how you've been progressing since you joined us and you're doing a great job. However you're not getting your reports in on time and we're missing deadlines. I'd like you to tighten up a bit on this. Anyway,thanks for all you've done so far and keep up the good work."Have you ever said something along these lines? You probably needed Fred to sort out his reporting but you didn't want to upset or demoralise him. The only problem is that Fred may not get the message. The importance of it may be seriously diluted. He may hear it as (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Lance Winslow |
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| Article Title :: Lawyer Annual Renewals with Audits Needed |
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| Due to Sarbanes Oxley so many Corporations and Small Medium Sized companies are feeling the incessant costs of increasing accounting fees. This is because there are not enough accountants to do all the work and because errors and omissions insurance have gone up because trial lawyers are using these laws to sue companies and accounting firms.It is also causing many small accounting corporations from no longer wishing to do audits, which are required by the rules and regulations. What we need is more rules and regulations for lawyers and a way to prove that they are all honest in their dealings.I personally do not believe that any lawyer is honest and I believe they should a (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Steve Kaye |
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| Article Title :: Three Ways Meetings Make Your Business Better |
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| 1) Effective meetings make money
Effective meetings make a business smart by producing creative strategies, solid plans, and workable solutions. And smart businesses always outperform others. Bad meetings produce nothing, except maybe a decision to call another meeting.
A smart business attracts customers because they know that smart companies provide reliable products and services. Thus, your proposal meetings, sales presentations, and operational effectiveness tell customers what to expect. For example, consider the opposite: how reliable a product would you expect from a company that ran bad meetings?
A profit-driven business must obtain a positive r (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Melanie Szlucha |
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| Article Title :: Stop Hiring People Who Don't Fit! |
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| We’ve all done it. Everyone has hired a candidate based on their “gut instinct” or a “good feeling,” only to have him or her turn out to be a big disaster after they’re hired.You think, oh well, that’s just the way the interview game goes. Some candidates will be better interviewees than others; there’s really no way to prevent or predict future problem employees.Actually, there are many ways to prevent hiring the wrong person, and it comes down to you having a crystal clear picture of what works well for you and your organization and what type of person does not.You probably have heard of something called behavioral based interviewing. That is just (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Tino Buntic |
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| Article Title :: World's Best Boss |
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| In BBC's television program, The Office, David Brent is a regional manager of the Slough office of Wernham Hogg. He is an inept, politically incorrect boss. Yet, he thinks his employees love him and that he is the greatest boss of all time. He buys himself a "world’s best boss" coffee mug and uses it as proof positive that he is, in fact, the greatest boss.This television program is comedy and has even spun off an American version of the show. David Brent is not the world's best boss, not even close. But watching him and his antics is great comedy. He inspired me to write an article describing what really does make a great boss. Here are the characteristics of what I believe mak (read full article) |
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