It’s Your Move: The First Step to Accountability
A lack of accountability is frustrating. Tremendous productivity and efficiencies can be gained when more people are accountable for completing their tasks, commitments and expectations.
Yearly Archives: 2010
Mobile CRM – It’s Here Now
Today’s workforce is truly mobile. Most of us now work at the office, from home and on the road. ‘On demand access’ to critical customer information from anywhere is becoming a ‘must have’ facility.
Now customers demand CRM access using a remote desktop or laptop accessing data through the Internet or on a handheld device. Suppliers are expected to have all the information at their fingertips at the moment of interaction. The same insight into their business and affairs ar...
Team Building Activities
Some of the essentials of team building include: emphasizing a team focus on shared goals, maintaining individual commitment to these goals, identifying problem areas and working together to overcome these, developing clear strategies to achieve goals, and celebrating achievements together.
Three Things to Consider While Researching a Home Business Opportunity
There are many people out there that have dreams of becoming their own boss. Now more than ever, it is easier for us to take that plunge because there are so many products we can sell. Some companies present their opportunity so well that we make an emotional decision to jump into business.......
Work From Home – Telecommute And Make Money
Telecommuting jobs are great opportunities to make money working from home. There are however, a great many scams that claim you will earn a lot of money in a very short period of time. Many of these so-called opportunities are designed to take your money, for which you will receive nothing or instructions as to how to place an add identical to the one you responded to and charge a fee to pass on the same instructions. The good news is that there are some very good telecommut...
Mission Statement Drift/ The Corporate Cancer
Every company performs to a script. Whether they real;ise it or not.
The organisational script from which the organisational style and culture emanates has usually evolved quite spontaneously over a period of years.
Companies operating with an inappropriate script are more likely to suffer from Mission Staement Drift.
It is therefore vital that a company runs with script which is in keeping with their Mission Statement
Team Building – What Consultants don’t tell you
Team Building is about character - yours! The plethora of information disseminated throughout the western world provides a smorgasbord of choices for business.
Theories are fine but I have found the practicalities another issue and so will you!
There is a cost to you and we are not talking just money. The real test is if you have the character and perseverance to make the changes and work through the hard issues of business.
Do you have what it takes?
It’s All About Speed
(speed) n. 1. Mathematics & Physics. Distance traveled divided by the time of travel. 2. Business & Life. The ratio of results to time invested.
Speed is distance (results) divided by time, period. Some leaders confuse this with the “fool’s gold” formula: action divided by time. This is a costly and destructive illusion that produces one of two fatal results: either attempting to avoid speed altogether by deferring action, and becoming stagnant—or “red-lining” the culture ...
Mismanagement At The New York Times
The New York Times Company (NYT) isn’t just reporting the news – it’s making the news. At yesterday’s annual meeting, shareholders withheld 28% of their votes for the four directors elected by holders of the company’s common stock. Nine other directors are elected by holders of the Class B shares, effectively granting control of the company to a group holding less than a 1% economic interest in the business.
Most of the large newspaper companies have not done a great job o...
Work From Home? How Do You Decide?
With the advent of information technology and the Internet, work-from-home schemes had been a continuous trend for so many years now, and it seems to be getting better each day.
So, here you are trying your way to get out of the traffic because you are bound to be late for work again. And when you get down to start your work, you will realize that it is time again to pack your things up and start heading for home. That is another traffic you have to get through again.
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