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- Understanding People People
- The Idea in Brief Looking for fresh ways to motivate your employees? Give them work that allows them to use their varied interpersonal talents. But first recognize that people skills are more nuanced than many...
- Articles 2008-03-10
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- When You Feel Stuck at Work
- Instead of trying to change how you feel when you think you're just spinning your wheels at work, you may want to change how you're working. In a recent interview, Timothy Butler, author of Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths, had this to say. "We...
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss |Book Brief
- The book "The 4-Hour Workweek" says you can work a lot less and enjoy life more. Author Timothy Ferriss explains how to escape the 9-to-5 grind and work just four hours a week.
- Videos 2007-12-19
- Butler Group Technical Audit: Sterling Commerce Managed Services
- Read Butler Group's report about Business-to-Business (B2B) infrastructure solutions that allow trading organizations to interact with each other across a secure network. Long considered as only appropriate for large organizations, such solutions are providing organizations of all sizes the ability to trade and collaborate electronically via...
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Useful Commute: The Four-Hour Work Week
- Find out how to escape the 9-to-5 grind and work just four hours week. Sound impossible? In this podcast, we interview Timothy Ferriss, entrepreneur and author of the bestselling book "The Four-Hour Workweek" and get some advice on managing time and living your dream. Length: 00:10:33 by...
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- The New Business Intelligence: A European Perspective
- Ensuring data is accurate and clean represents a crucial quality issue, without which any further activity down the Business Intelligence (BI) chain becomes an expensive waste. Organisations all too often neglect to address or provide sufficient resources to meet this challenge. With the wider use of BI through Web-based architectures...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- Business Process Management: A Guide To Navigating The Process Minefield
- Butler Group believes that it is necessary to fundamentally challenge the rationale of Business Process Management (BPM) solutions, in terms of what, when, why, and how they should be used. BPM primarily concerns the business. BPM seems to have been interpreted by software vendors as an IT sell - a...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- SCORE Sheds Some Light On Growing A Medical Equipment Business
- You learn something new every day, the saying goes. And when Ron and Pamela Patterson attended a horse show with their ride-loving daughters, they learned something that would help them eventually become successful entrepreneurs. The Pattersons worked with a light and photon therapy equipment manufacturer to set up their own...
- Case studies
- Business Process Integration: Common Scenarios for Business Transformation
- Demands such as supply chain integration, compliance with information legislation, operational consolidation, improved customer and client service, and reduced product development times, in both private and public sectors, require flexible, process-centric solutions that overcome the barriers presented by disconnected underlying systems. Butler Group believes that it is this failure to...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Steam Heats, Cools, Provides Electricity at Pioneering Vermont College
- Middlebury College was founded in 1800 by Timothy Dwight, then President of Yale College. Middlebury College maintains its 200-year-old sense of history while taking advantage of the newest technologies for building comfort and energy use. Currently 36 buildings comprise 1.6 million square feet on the 350-acre campus. All receive heating...
- Case studies
- Demo Slab of Pervious Concrete Replaces Ice-Prone Asphalt at High School
- The Ohio Ready Mixed Concrete Association (ORMCA) and the Concrete Promotion Council of Southwest Ohio (promotion council) hosted a short seminar and demonstration of pervious concrete paving this summer. The demonstration slab will serve as a trial crosswalk at the Lakota East High School in Butler County, Ohio, where the...
- Case studies
- Managers’ Upward Influence Tactic Strategies: The Role of Manager Personality and Supervisor Leadership Style
- The process of influencing people -- and the tactics you choose to do so -- are an important element of managerial success. UNC Kenan-Flagler management professor Dan Cable and University of Florida colleague Timothy Judge investigate the role of manager personality in the Journal of Organizational Behavior study,...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Apple: iPhone Demand Looks Strong Globally
- Years ago, Apple used to have problems managing its inventory. It would launch a hot new product, and offer up far fewer than there was demand for. While Apple has since learned better, it still found itself at the end of March with "stockouts" - or low inventories - of...
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Chelsea Clinton Should Have Expected "The Question"
- You can't tell me that the Clinton campaign is so unprepared that it hasn't given a great deal of thought to how to handle questions about the Monica Lewinsky affair. It was the defining moment of the Clinton presidency and may determine the outcome of this year's race. ...
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- A New Game Plan for C Players
- The Idea in Brief How to sustain a 23% annual shareholder return? Push your growth rate from 4% to 10% in one year? Triple your market capitalization in three years? Clothing retailer The Limited,...
- Articles 2008-03-10
- Managing Middlescence
- The Idea in Brief ...
- Articles 2007-11-07
- Bank of England Set to Hold Rates
- By Christina Fincher LONDON (Reuters UK) - The Bank of England looks more likely to leave interest rates on hold rather than cut them later on Thursday, but a stream of dismal data over recent days has made the decision a close call. Only five of...
- News items 2008-05-07
- Blanchflower Says BoE Must Act to Prevent Recession
- By Christina Fincher EDINBURGH (Reuters UK) - Britain faces a real risk of recession and house prices could crash by more than 30 percent unless the Bank of England takes "aggressive" action, policy-maker David Blanchflower said on Tuesday. In direct contrast to Bank of England Governor...
- News items 2008-04-29
- Mortgage Approvals Slump to Record Low
- By Matt Falloon and Christina Fincher LONDON (Reuters UK) - Approvals for home loans slumped nearly 50 percent on a year ago to hit a record low in March, a survey showed on Wednesday, in a further sign the housing market is buckling as the credit...
- News items 2008-04-23
- Punch Profits Up But Sales Still Falling
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - Pub company Punch Taverns (PUB) said on Thursday sales have got worse since a subdued Christmas as consumer confidence has worsened. However Punch, which operates over 8,500 pubs, said profits were slightly better-than-expected in the first half of its financial year...
- News items 2008-04-24
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