Yearly Archives: 2010

Move Inventory, Not Workers

Many companies think material handling automation is a nice idea, but something for the big guys. In reality, material handling automation comes in many sizes. It saves far more productive hours than it takes in training, installation and maintenance. In fact, it's an excellent way to help grow to the size you want to be.

Why Do You Need Business Management Consulting?

When business grows crossing the boundaries defined by limited internal resources, including your own and your executives’, it pays to engage the services of external business management consultants. Large business management consulting houses such as McKinsey and Company or PricewaterhouseCoopers, pride in their vast exposures to handling wide ranging business complexities under differing international conditions. Businesses become complex as time passes by and handling t...

More About Background Check

Trust is something hard to come by especially if one does not know the person. To make this happen, companies and people do background checks on the individual to avoid being swindled or victimized. An example is when people apply for a job. The company has to do a background check to see if that individual is for real or a fraud. Human resource practioners do this by letting the applicant fill up a form. This usually has the name of the applicant and other details su...

Why Flogging Dead Horses Stinks

Flogging a dead horse is a commonly used idiom here in the UK. If someone is trying to convince someone else to do or feel something without any hope of succeeding, we say they're flogging a dead horse. This is used when someone is trying to raise interest in an issue that no-one supports anymore; beating a dead horse will not make it do any more work. 1. Similarly, the tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that, "When you discover...

Be Yourself

Here’s the thing... you still have to make every marketing and sales message all about the WIIFM* for your target audience. But it’s how you do this – the words you choose and your behavior – that makes the connection with the marketplace all about you.

Why High Risk Lead To High Gain?

There are many myths and facts about investing. Some pseudo facts are that, high return investments are risky and low risk investments are safe. The truth is, there isn’t any exact curve that’ll give risks as a function of return. Low return investments can be very risky too when fraud happens, for example. However, the pseudo fact that risk correlates with return have some truth in it. You need to understand what causes it. Money doesn’t make money. People make money. ...
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