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How do companies win these days? By changing the rules!!

How do companies win these days? By changing the rules!!

Thursday, August 5, 2010

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Process Innovation may appear unglamorous or unfamiliar to many executives, but it can provide new opportunities for competing, as well as superior business performance.

How to Write a Job Description

How to Write a Job Description

Friday, March 12, 2010

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Consider you are traveling to an exotic location on holiday. You locked in the best deal and are very excited about it. But this location does not have any guidelines for tourists. How will you plan those precious seven days?

Noreena Hertz and a New Economic System

Noreena Hertz and a New Economic System

Monday, November 23, 2009

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In order to facilitate change on a large scale, the traditional rules of economics need to change. We need to look hard at how well the market forces work. Noreena Hertz's work is suggestive of where some opportunities are to improve business, the environment, and quality of life.

Grippies: A Sustainable Success Story

Grippies: A Sustainable Success Story

Friday, October 9, 2009

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Grippies took an existing successful product and re-packaged it to make it more environmentally friendly. This process resulted in better value to the customer and to the company's fiscal bottom line.

Managing a Multi-Generational Workforce

Wed, Jun 15, 2011

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Managing a Multi-Generational Workforce

As a manager, you probably have workers on your team that span several generations.  Baby Boomers, Generation X and Generation Y all have different work styles, expectations and motivations.  How can you get everyone to work together to produce the best results for your company?

Employing the Employee

Mon, Jun 6, 2011

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Employing the Employee

In today’s day and age, so often the complaint in Human Resources is that good help is hard to find.  Lackluster employees, lazy employees, inept employees, you name it, somewhere complaints like these are circulating at this very moment.  Employers do have a tough time keeping and finding the best fits, I won’t argue that.  However, I would [...]

3 Reasons for your business to be on Twitter

Tue, May 31, 2011

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3 Reasons for your business to be on Twitter

Is your business on Twitter?  If not, here are three compelling reasons why you should sign up.

How Small Businesses Can Use Social Media For Hiring

Thu, Mar 17, 2011

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How Small Businesses Can Use Social Media For Hiring

The process of hiring a new employee, from posting the vacancy, screening the candidate, to hiring, has changed dramatically in the last decade with the Internet. More recently, social media has started to once again revolutionize the process. Social media sites like Facebook and LinkedIn, are being increasingly used by companies and applicants to network, [...]

How to Use Facebook and Twitter for Your Small Business

Wed, Mar 2, 2011

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How to Use Facebook and Twitter for Your Small Business

We’ve talked before on this site about the challenges facing a small business owner when it comes to developing an effective marketing plan.  Chances are you have limited time and money. The good news is that there are solutions to help you market and grow your small business online. I’m sure you realized that just by [...]

Email Marketing Best Practices

Fri, Feb 25, 2011

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Email Marketing Best Practices

As an executive, you’re always looking for new ways to connect with your clients and members. Whether your business is a university, financial firm, restaurant or museum, you should consider e-mail marketing.