What do Gene Simmons, Stephen Baldwin, and Nadia Comaneci have in common? According to Donald Trump, they've all done "something very dramatic with money." Along with 11 others, the three will join the cast of The Apprentice this season, competing for $250,000 to donate to the charity of their choice. It should be...
Cash flow is the life blood of any business, and a core indicator of an enterprise’s financial health and viability. While not a failsafe way to appraise performance, cash flow is as good a barometer as any to quickly judge the financial performance of an entire company, an operating unit,...
The Idea in Brief Like many managers, you probably conduct after-action reviews AARs to extract lessons from key projects and apply them to others. But in most companies, AARs don?t fulfill their promise: Scrapped projects, poor investments, and failed safety measures repeat themselves?while...
Traveling overseas? Need to communicate better with foreign language-speaking colleagues? Mango's got you covered. This Web-based classroom offers lessons in 11 different languages, including Chinese, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. In each lesson you're taught specific phrases, which you can have read aloud by clicking individual words or a speaker icon. The...
For most sales reps, rapport-building is easier in person than on the telephone. The reason is simple. In human-to-human communications, appearance (facial expressions, body language, semiotics) often communicates as much, or more, than the specific words that are spoken. That's why basic sales training always starts with...
Kelly Perdew is best known for winning Season 2 of "The Apprentice." But he's also a West Point alum, Army Ranger, lawyer, MBA, author and now president of Pro Elite Online, an online community for the fastest growing sport on the planet: mixed martial arts. Perdew shares lessons about...
This paper is the fifth annual edition of MarketingSherpa's "Wisdom" report, featuring 110 stories and lessons learned from MarketingSherpa's readers, all in their own words. The paper covers the gamut of marketing: segmentation, blocked images, traditional DM and pay per click. To inspire, this report features dozens of real-life test...
This paper seeks to capture the lessons learned from conducting organisational change in some New Zealand public sector organisations. The content of the paper is based primarily on information gained from interviews with the chief executives, as well as with senior managers and a cross-section of other staff from MSD.
There are alternatives to lean and mean management approaches despite their enduring popularity among CEOs and Wall Street. The experiences of a few path-breaking companies offer lessons many companies would do well to consider. While none of these organizations is perfect, all of them succeed by practicing a fundamentally different...
The building of the Gold Line using the DB model has been an enriching experience to all the members of the PMC Program Management Consultant and the Design-Builders. There have been many lessons learned during the course of bringing LRT to the communities affected by the Gold Line. This paper...
This paper evaluates some of the key lessons of behavioral economics and finance research over the last decade for pension plan design. The discussion is divided into the natural phases of the retirement saving life cycle: accumulation, investment, and decumulation. After reviewing the lessons of behavioral finance, the paper concludes...
It has been observed that everything one needs to know about business can be learned in the Game of Tennis. By this, they can certainly improve work performance and overall joy. Some of the lesson include: play loose and hit the ball better while exacting less toll on oneself, changing...
Article brings into notice a lot of killer brands that have been shooting blanks lately. Established companies tend to forget their roots. They start thinking with their brand and not with their benefit. That leads, for instance, to advertising that showcases a logo or the company's former victories. Article, therefore,...
The article says that learning from previous project problems would seem to be a no-brainer for organizations that do projects for a living. Yet, lessons are rarely learned and the same failures are repeated over and over. What we need is a living lessons learned process that gives the organization...
The "learning organisation" is frequently emphasised in the literature and in practice, and this is particularly important for project-oriented organisations. However, experience tells us that organisations tend not to learn adequately from project experiences. This paper looks first at the behaviour of complex projects, and, looking at the results of...
Here are a few observations and lessons learned from The American Banker M&A Annual Review for 2002. It is discussed that issues begin to emerge related to pricing, terms, scope of representations and warranties, and indemnification obligations. The lesson is to take time up front in lining up the players...
Encountering a fraud can be extremely painful. However, the most painful aspect is when one learns a wrong lesson from it. As a result, people tend to commit the same mistake repeatedly, leading to more pain. The people should not only remember their past mistakes, but also the lessons that...
Agrimarketers can glean many valuable lessons from the recent mad cow disease epidemic as well as similar threats such as the e-coli and Tylenol scares. The most important lesson, perhaps, is that companies need to plan now to protect themselves from a possible threat. Equally important, they need to rehearse...
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