11,381 articles related to "business and finance"

A large international insurance company IT department

PROBLEMThe workers in the information systems division were technically excellent but lacked in human behavioral skills. One employee in particular was exceptionally intelligent and knowledgeable but had a pessimistic, cautious and negative attitude....

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Managers Don't Know Any Better!

Managers Don’t Know Any Better!90% of managers today haven’t the slightest clue about how to perform their jobs. If they did we wouldn’t have the astonishingly high business failure rate, or job movement. But our managers have never been proper...

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GET OUT THOSE LEGOS

Many of my clients are working harder than smarter. This is not a put-down of their intelligence. It is a statement about the conventions of the way most of us live and work. Without a concerted effort to step back and take an objective look at how w...

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How to Survive Your Business Until It Thrives

If your business is in a slump, or you’re losing money, or critically short on cash, or, even worse, have gotten yourself in a position where every new contract, every new customer actually loses you money, you must cut expenses. 1. Take nothing fo...

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Not Getting the Support or Buy-In You Want Try a little empathy!

"It’s not who is right, but what is right, that isof importance."Thomas Huxley"An open ear is the only believable sign of anopen heart."David Augsburger"A human being is a part of the whole called by usuniverse, a part limited in time and space. He...

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Build Confidence & Credibility First-person Pronouns Get Your Messages Heard

Irritating speech habits destroy our professional credibility. Examples of irritating speech habits are sentences that end with dangling prepositions (Where did you hang your coat at?) and conversations peppered with “ums,” “uhs,” “like,”...

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Guidelines for surviving and even thriving in the online recession

As a Baby Boomer in good standing, I've seen recessions before lots of 'em. The first recession I remember was 1958 and theeffect it produced on the Republican Party. (I sure hope GeorgeW took American History at Yale, but I doubt he rememb...

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Product Review - No Money Down Course by Carleton Sheets

Product Review – No Money Down Program by Carleton SheetsReview by staff member Mike MatthewsReal estate continues to be a very important part of any financial wealth building strategy. Most wealthy individuals have real estate investments as a po...

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Recovering from the Loss of a Business Recovery, Reversal, and Coping Strategies

Losing a business is overall, akin to the "death" of a loved one. So much of a business owner's personality and hard work have gone into a business, that when tragedy strikes, for whatever reason and the business is forced into bankruptcy or to ...

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Keeping Your Email Box Organized & Ready for Business

Learning how to get the most organization from your email software is very likely the most important skill you can learn to conduct a successful online home business. There are three primary email applications on the market that folks use to manage t...

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