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Will you want to choose only one category to begin collecting your sports memorabilia? If so, learn it, research it, and invest in it wisely.

Discover secrets of event organisers that you can learn for a successful event. Tap onto the mind of event organisers to acquire knowledge that you can only obtain through experinece in organising events.

Of the 4,158 colleges and universities in the United States, only 35 offer sales curricula. Nevertheless, more than 50% of the 1.3 million college graduates in 2007 will become professional sellers on the first day of their employment. Yet, turnover rates, attrition and failure in-the-field for these young salespeople are astounding.

You thought you had an effective meeting until one participant disagreed with everyone else. Now the meeting is deadlocked. Here's what to do. (This is the sixth of a seven part article on Managing Monsters in Meetings.)

One of the valuable tools in the Six Sigma toolbox is Design of Experiments. Design of Experiment (DOE) is a structured technique that helps to uncover relationships often hidden inside mountains of data. Within the structure of a Six Sigma project, Design of Experiments is a structured approach to identifying the factors within a process that contribute to particular effects, then creating meaningful tests that verify possible improvement ideas or theories. Most of us are...

Unsuccessful promotion candidates who remain in the department can make life difficult for the new manager. This article offers guidance for handling this common challenge for new managers.

Recruiting a senior manager or director for your business can be expensive. Placing adverts in the right papers and journals is a huge expense in itself. If you’re recruiting at the top level in your business, it may be more cost-effective for you to use an executive search agency. Did you know that, in some cases, the fee charged by a recruitment agency may actually be less than handling the recruitment in-house? People often turn to an executive search firm when they hav...

Do you waste a lot of your working day in boring, mindless meetings? If so, read on to find out how you can make your meetings into productive and worthwhile events. Honestly!

Employment is on the rise and with it, the return to attractive compensation packages and salary levels. After several down years in the employment market that was the result of the normalization of an inflated stock market and the beginning of the War on Terror, employers are constructing compensation packages with an eye to drawing dedicated employees. During the economic bubble of the late nineties, employers were in head-to-head competition with each other to offer be...

If you were asked about your finances at night, awaken from sleep will you remember the figures?