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The Business of Baseball: Going to the baseball stadium is no longer just about catching the game on the field, but rather the overall ball park "experience." SF Giants Chief Operating Officer Larry Baer says at AT&T Ball Park, stadium sales account for up to 65% of overall team revenues. From new luxury boxes,...; Tags: Baseball, ball park, stadium, Larry Baer, SF Giants, COO, revenues, luxury boxes, food, souvenirs, hi-tech, wi-fi, Team, Team Management, Sales Strategy, Management, Sales; Videos 2008-05-07
Motivational Posters Are Lame: I love "How I Met Your Mother," a sitcom that has some of the smartest writing on television. The set design and the inside jokes are clever, which is why I watched part of the last episode with my DVR set to super slo-mo in an attempt to decipher one...; Tags: Poster, Team Management, DVR, Management, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, CC Holland; Blog posts 2008-05-08
5 Ways to Keep Your Team Intact: Ask any room full of managers and they'll tell you the same tale: Good people are hard to find and even harder to keep. It takes more than a salary and benefits to keep folks in place. And constant turnover can be hell on your team and its productivity. ...; Tags: Team management, Benefits, Strategy, CC Holland, team; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Team Building by Torture? Not So Effective: By now you've heard about the overzealous manager who used waterboarding as a motivational tool for an underperforming sales force. (Boss to team: "You saw how hard Chad fought for air right there. I want you to go back inside and fight that hard to make sales.") ...; Tags: Team management, CC Holland, team-building; Blog posts 2008-04-26
Soldiers Pursuing Harvard MBAs: Most students enter Harvard Business School with company experience under their belts. Increasingly, however, students are arriving with experience not from from the business field but from the battlefield. At Harvard Business School, upwards of 90 students have a military background, and applications from both active...; Tags: Team management, MBA, Sean Silverthorne, Scott Snook; Blog posts 2008-05-05

VW Signs Sponsor Deals With U.S. Soccer Club, League: CHICAGO (Reuters) - Volkswagen AG (VOWG) and Major League Soccer on Tuesday announced a deal that makes the German automaker the primary sponsor of the Washington club. Valued at $14 million over five years according to the Washington Post, the agreement puts the...; Tags: Team management, Manufacturing, VW, Volkswagen AG, billboard, Chicago, automobile company, club, team, Washington, agreement, U.S., Thomson Reuters Corp., brand, advertisement, financial, marketing, game; News items 2008-05-06
Getting your Consultants to Deliver: They steal your watch to tell you the time: the old saw about consultancies still rings true. A Management Consultancies Association survey says 28 per cent of organisations are dissatisfied with the consultancies they've used. Tim Phillips, director of Moorhouse Consulting, offers an insider's guide to getting top service: ...; Tags: Team, Consultant, Management Consultancies Association Survey, Team Management, Management, Tim Phillips; Blog posts 2008-04-25
Jaguar Land Rover CEO Dies After Two-year Illness: DETROIT (Reuters) - The chief executive of Jaguar Land Rover has died in his home country of Australia after a long illness, Ford Motor Co (F) said on Sunday. He was 60. Geoff Polites led the team that turned Jaguar Land Rover back...; Tags: Land Rover, Ford Motor Co., Detroit, Australia, CEO, Thomson Reuters Corp., team; News items 2008-04-20
Jaguar Land Rover CEO Dies After Two-year Illness: DETROIT (Reuters UK) - The chief executive of Jaguar Land Rover has died in his home country of Australia after a long illness, Ford Motor Co (F) said on Sunday. He was 60. Geoff Polites led the team that turned Jaguar Land Rover back to profitability...; Tags: Land Rover, Ford Motor Co., CEO, Team Management, Management, Oukbs; News items 2008-04-20
Keep Emotion Out of Decision Making: We've all had the experience of letting our emotions get the better of our actions. But in a business setting, emotional decisions can be costly -- and a quick way to lose your job. But how do you keep cool, calm, and collected in the high pressure...; Tags: Harvard Business School, Spotlight, Rivalry, Decision-making, Free Trade, Team Management, Finance, Management, Sean Silverthorne; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Cussing Can Build Camaraderie: A new study claims that a foul mouth is the worst of workplace faux pas. According to the report, 36 percent of bosses have issued a formal warning and 6 percent have fired an employee for swearing. Employers may even dump their workers for off-hours profanity: The Washington Post recently...; Tags: CC Holland; Blog posts 2008-04-30
Tall Trees, Tall Thinking and Tall Poppies: A recent visit to Western Australia got me thinking about the impact of the tall poppy syndrome in innovation. While walking along the unique 40-metre-high platform in the Valley of the Giants (400-year-old Tingle Trees, some of the world's largest), I was impressed with the innovative...; Tags: Syndrome, Food & Beverage, Team Management, Leadership, Strategy, Manufacturing, Management, Jennifer Goddard; Blog posts 2008-05-04
Office Pranks can be Productive: I probably shouldn't officially condone office pranks, but sometimes such shenanigans can be great for morale. Not much brings a diverse group of people together better than a good laugh, and a well-planned prank can really get the guffaws going. I thought I'd...; Tags: CC Holland, Microsoft Office; Blog posts 2008-05-02
Words of Bizdom: As part of the BNET Australia official launch, we're inviting all our readers to submit their best piece of managerial advice and go into the running to win some great wine prizes. We've all heard great pieces of advice from the great business people we've encountered through...; Tags: Advice, Professional Development, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Team Management, Microsoft Office, Career, Office Suites, Software, Management, Brian Haverty; Blog posts 2008-04-30
How To Use Performance Appraisals To Build Staff Success And Company Results: The annual performance appraisal is an opportunity to enhance employee performance and create greater success for the company and the individual. This paper's intent is to explore how coaching skills can be used in creating a good performance appraisal experience for both the employee and the supervisor and how to...; Tags: Performance management, Team management, Performance Appraisal, supervisor, appraisal, performance, environment; White papers 2008-03-22
New Lessons from Moneyball's Billy Beane: Here's a post for baseball nuts: Management by Baseball's A 2008 Billy Beane Lesson in Adaptation. It's lengthy (though shorter than the typical baseball game), and connects why the Oakland A's have stumbled in the wake of "Moneyball" (other teams figured out the same tricks), to what it means for...; Tags: Michael Fitzgerald, Moneyball; Blog posts 2008-04-23
Why United's Skyrocketing Costs Aren't Just About Fuel: Did anyone catch the name of that bus that hit United Airlines during the first quarter? The airline turned in an absolutely terrible performance followed by an announcement that another 10 to 15 planes will be removed from the fleet above and beyond what's already announced. In addition,...; Tags: Airline, United Airlines, Construction, Team Management, Performance Management, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Brett Snyder; Blog posts 2008-04-23
Improving the Quality of Performance Appraisals Through Rater Training: Measuring work performance is a critical HR function, insofar as performance measures are used for a wide array of personnel-related decisions. Rater training is one approach for improving rating quality. To the extent that employees in the same job are evaluated by different sources it is important that a common...; Tags: Workforce management, Performance management, HR.com, training, performance, Human Resources, job; White papers
Case Study: Team Learning: Many organizations have tried to focus on teams. Self-managed teams offer the potential for downsizing organizations and the prospect of improving productivity. Team learning is an adaptation of action learningand recently re-discovered by organizational development consultants in the USA. Team Learning is fundamental to the performance of a team. Without...; Tags: Team management, Workforce management, downsizing, team, Strategic Planning, QA, technique, training, performance; Case studies
Using Ownership as an Incentive: Does the: Agency theory is used to develop hypotheses regarding the effects of ownership proliferation on firm performance. The article examines the effects of CEO ownership, executive team ownership, and all employee ownership, in addition to the moderating effect of risk, on firm survival and stock price. Firms with low CEO ownership...; Tags: Performance management, Investment, Cornell University, performance, CEO, stock price, incentive, agency, stock; White papers