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- Scientists Urge Execs to Be Choosy about Choices
- The Find: The ability to make good decisions is key to management and rests on a brain function called "executive function," but psychologists warn that this decision making function is far more easily depleted than once thought. The Source: A fascinating article in Scientific American....
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Malcolm Gladwell: How to Make Better Decisions
- 'Blink' author Malcolm Gladwell talks up the crowd at RSA 2008 in San Francisco about how TMI too much information can actually impair your judgment and lead to bad decisions, almost like booze. In the second part of his presentation, Gladwell centers on how you can restore...
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Taking Different Approaches to a Problem
- We are under such time pressures at work that we tend to solve problems based on what has worked in the past. This approach precludes us from finding new and effective solutions. Instead, we look for "quick fixes." Considering a problem from different perspectives helps us solve...
- Articles 2007-12-03
- Managing Sales Opportunities
- For many business-to-business markets, the customer is not a single decision-maker, which means the sales process can be prolonged and complex. The traditional process of generating leads and handing them to the sales force for completion may not be sufficient. The sales and marketing program has to penetrate far deeper...
- Articles 2007-11-30
- Planning a Publication Strategy—Print or Electronic?
- Many companies are abandoning traditional print for electronic publications. The decision is not driven by cost alone; electronic publications are quicker and easier to produce, distribute, and update. They can also be easily customized to particular audiences or produced cost-effectively for small niche markets. However, there remains a human need...
- Articles 2007-11-26
- Developing a Channel Strategy
- What's the best way to sell into a new market or improve performance in existing markets? You can build your own sales force to sell directly to customers or use an indirect channel partner to reach customers. You can also use other channels such as the Internet. The decision is...
- Articles 2007-11-16
- Looking For a New Challenge
- It could be argued that society is moving backwards; that as adults, we're becoming more child-like—demanding instant and varied pleasures to make us happy instead of developing the maturity to delay gratification. But really, what's wrong with that? We have the technological innovations and resources to support our immediate desires...
- Articles 2007-11-09
- Decision-making under Pressure
- When an important decision must be made in a high-pressure situation, it is natural to worry about making a "bad" or "wrong" decision. Most people prefer to have sufficient time to analyze a situation and consider the alternatives. In a high-pressure situation, however, time is often a luxury they cannot...
- Articles 2007-10-12
- Keeping On Top of Project Management
- A project can be an awkward beast to manage. Because the purpose of a project is to bring about change, the context is often unsettled and uncertain. As a result, unexpected issues tend to crop up—changes occur and mistakes are made. An effective project manager must accept that the unexpected...
- Articles 2007-10-08
- When Do You Need Consensus?
- A while back, a reader pointed out that consensus was a more complex issue than perhaps I had portrayed in my first post -- Forget What You Learned in Grade School: Five Teamwork Myths. After much soul searching and a reminder that the reader is always right, I came to...
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Time Inc. Shutters Business 2.0 Magazine
- It was a profitable magazine when Time Inc. acquired Business 2.0 back in 2001 from Imagine Media now Future US, but the world's biggest magazine publisher never managed to steer it back into the black. And today, the ax fell as expected: John Huey, Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc., was in...
- Blog posts 2007-09-05
- The Decisive Moment: A BNET Series
- CEOs and other C-level executives are faced with difficult decisions every day that affect every part of the company. With ?The Decisive Moment? series, BNET aims to shed light on the thinking and the drama behind some of the biggest and gutsiest decisions in recent business history. by Staci...
- Articles 2009-10-20
- Why Your Company Needs Analytics
- "Analytics at Work" author Tom Davenport discusses how analytics can help your organization, and why your gut instincts aren't enough to run a successful business. by Stacy Blackman
- Blog posts 2010-02-02
- Can You See the Wood for the Trees? | BTalk
- [podcast] Often business decisions are made using lots of data, but still only showing half the picture. Unfortunately those drawing the assumptions aren't capable of seeing the whole story because their brains just don't work that way. by Phil Dobbie
- Blog posts 2010-01-23
- U.S. Lawmakers Grill Geithner Over AIG
- By Glenn Somerville and David LawderWASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - U.S. lawmakers challenged Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's credibility Wednesday after he said he was not involved in a decision by bailed-out insurer AIG to withhold details about $62 billion paid to banks.Geithner held his ground at a hearing, however, insisting the...
- News items 2010-01-27
- Geithner Faces Questions Over AIG
- By Glenn Somerville and David LawderWASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday challenged Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's credibility after he said he was not involved in AIG's decision to withhold details on $62 billion the bailed-out insurer paid to banks.Geithner held his ground at a hearing, however, insisting the...
- News items 2010-01-27
- Strategic Decision Making - Able Corporation & Walden, Inc.
- Decision-making can be quite challenging and there is a process for making decisions. First you must decide what is it you want to achieve. Once this is known, you state several options of how you will get there. Predicting the outcome of each scenario will aid in your decision of...
- White papers 2008-01-08
- Do You Know How To Make The Right Decision?
- Making decisions is part of modern life, and each day we make hundreds of simple decisions, a handful of important decision, and occasionally, a massive decision. The problem is often in knowing the right or best thing to do, and so many of us do not know how to set...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Making Decisions Difficult
- Decisions, it seems, are getting more difficult. It is getting harder to know what to make a decision about and it seems to be getting harder to make the "Right" decision. It follows that leadership and management are becoming harder competencies to master. Even twenty years ago, life in an...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- BI Role In Making Corporate Decisions
- A decision that deals with the safety, success, and livelihood of a business can be defined as a corporate decision. These decisions can range anywhere from financial issues and customer satisfaction to product popularity and environmental trends. Regardless of the topic, when making a corporate decision the well-being of a...
- White papers 2008-01-01
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