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How to Decide in a Time of Confusion
A practical five-step plan to make sure you have the data (and the mind-set) you need to make great decisions in a time of unprecedented risk and uncertainty. Study Your Business Environment Goal: Compile information to understand what you know...
Tags: Team, Korean Air, Worker, Ram Charan, Team Management, Management, Uncertainty, BNET Crash Course, Decisionmaking, Downturn, Recession, Managing a Team, Kim Girard,  Kim Girard
Articles 2009-05-04

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Take Advantage of Training Programs
While competitors cut training, invest wisely in programs that will help you hang onto A players and prepare your company to rebound after the recession. The scenario: Cost-cutting leaves little room...
Tags: Leadership, Training, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources, Recession Strategy, Employee Training, BNET Feature, Kim Girard
Articles 2008-11-20
Cherry Pick Top Talent Away from Rivals
Employ savvy recruiting tactics to poach A players from competitors. The scenario: With nearly every industry announcing layoffs and closings, high-caliber talent is up for grabs. The tactic: Employ savvy...
Tags: Talent, Workforce Management, Human Resources, BNET Feature, Recruiting, Hiring, Competition, Recession Strategy, Kim Girard
Articles 2008-11-20
Why Do CEOs (Still) Love Ayn Rand?
Even a major free-market economic crisis hasn't broken the love affair between business execs and their favorite free-market philosopher. Rand’s Philosophy Rand’s Objectivist philosophy — which calls for facts over feelings, reason over mysticism, individual over state, and selfishness before altruism — wouldn’t...
Tags: Ingersoll-Rand, Alan Greenspan, Objectivist, Kent, Entrepreneurship, Internet, Sales Strategy, Management, Sales, Ayn Rand, Capitalism, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Objectivism, BNET Briefing, Kim Girard
Articles 2009-02-24
What Went Right — and Wrong — in Three Real Cases of Uncertainty
Organizations deal with uncertainty all too often these days. You can learn a lot from examining what these companies have done and why, even if it didn't pay off. ...
Tags: Firefighter, Exxon Mobil Corp., Federal Express, Plumes, Operations Integrity Management System, Team Management, Benefits, Management, Human Resources, Kim Girard
Articles 2009-05-04
Three Tools to Manage Uncertainty
Leaders who deal with the unpredictable every day don't just wing it. They have a set of proven methods for making the best possible decisions when imperfect information is a fact of life. (Sound familiar?) Learn from them. ...
Tags: Tool, Basics Step, Enterprise Risk Management, Business Security, Business Operations, Airline pilots, risk managers, and entrepreneurs operate in environments that are practically defined by uncertainty. As a result, they’ve developed techniques that make uncertainty more manageable — and less perilous. There are three proven strategies for navigating short- and long-term uncertainty. With a little creativity, you can apply any of them to the decisions you face in these uncertain times., Kim Girard
Articles 2009-05-04
Carl Spetzler: The Six Elements of a Good Decision
The expert on strategic decision making explains how to think straight and act wisely in an uncertain economic environment. How do you define a “good” decision? Six elements go into a good decision: (1) The right frame — making sure you’re solving...
Tags: Decision, Tools & Techniques, Management, Kim Girard
Articles 2009-05-04
Business Lunch:10 Things Not to Do
The way to career success winds through many an important restaurant meal. Make sure you don't try to walk that path with spinach between your teeth. ...
Tags: Job, Food, Boss, Beverage, MoneyWatch, Food & Beverage, Recruitment & Selection, Manufacturing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Job Interviewing, Table Manners, Dining Etiquette, Emily Post Institute, Kim Girard
Articles 2009-06-30
Boomerang Kids? How to Kick Your Kid Out of the Nest
So much for the empty nest. More and more adult children, unable to support themselves in a tough economy, are showing up on mom and dad?s doorstep. Here?s how to minimize the financial drain and emotional strain, while helping your children get back on their feet ? and out the...
Tags: Job, Kid, MoneyWatch, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Adult Children, Children Moving Back Home, Stay-At-Home Kids, Boomerang Kids, Christina Newberry, Abby Wilner, Jane Isay, Jane Adams, ShitMyDadSays, Empty Nest, Kim Girard
Articles 2009-10-12
The Quick-and-Dirty Guide to Getting Things Done
How to launch and successfully complete complex projects in four chaos-free steps. Be a Control Freak at the Beginning A smart project manager applies the most time and effort at the start, to prepare for a great launch, and...
Tags: Project, Team, Project Manager, Team Management, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, It Operations, It service Management, BNET Crash Course, Organization, Deadlines, Nokia, General Motors, Recession, Downturn, Managing a Team, Kim Girard, BNET Feature Package
Articles 2009-10-27
How Three Project Managers Stayed on Track
Managing near-disasters is part of the job. Here?s how three determined team leaders saved projects that had gone off the rails. Colorado State Patrol The goal: Coordinate law enforcement services with the Denver Police Department, the...
Tags: Team, Project Manager, Buisson, Synovus, TSYS, Telephony, Team Management, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Management, Project Management, Colorado State Patrol, Democratic National Convention, London Heathrow Airport, Kim Girard, BNET Feature Package
Articles 2009-10-27
The Woman Driving Ford's Big Bet on Electric
As Ford?s new director of global electrification, it?s Nancy Gioia?s job to make sure the company delivers cutting-edge, fuel-efficient vehicles. In an interview with BNET she talks about how Ford has changed, what she?s doing to get her team to deliver, and why managers should bring...
Tags: Ford Motor Co., C-platform, Team Management, Leadership, Management, Ford Motor Company, Nancy Gioia, Smart Grid, Managing a Team, Bill Ford, Electric Cars, Kim Girard
Articles 2009-11-13
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