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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....
Tags: Workforce Management, Human Resources, Management, Recruitment & Selection, Tools & Techniques, Executive Function, Cookie, Decision, Decision-making, Job, Jessica Stillman
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...
Tags: Judgment, Decision, Michael Mattis
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...
Tags: Hat, Team Management, Productivity, Perspective, Decision, Problem, Solution, Concept Fan, Management, BNET Editorial
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...
Tags: Process, Team, Environment, Customer, Decision, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Sales, Marketing, BNET Editorial
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...
Tags: Adobe PDF, Adobe Systems Inc., BNET Editorial, Channel Management, Decision, Industry Experience, Information, Internet, Marketing, Publication, Strategy, Web, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, White Paper
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...
Tags: Marketing, Partnership, Product, Customer, Outlet, Service, Decision, Channel Partner, Distributor Sales Force, Sales Strategy, Business Structures, Sales Force Management, Finance, Sales Force, Branding, Marketing Information, Strategy, Channel, Sales, BNET Editorial
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...
Tags: Challenge, Decision, Professional Development, Leadership, Career, Management, Life, BNET Editorial
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...
Tags: instinct, analysis, technique, motivation, workplace, accounting, job, tool, BNET Editorial, Decision, Tools & Techniques, Decision-making, Management, Situation
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...
Tags: Team management, Tools & Techniques, risk analysis, project manager, team, change request, risk assessment, BNET Editorial, Contingency Plan, TechnicalThis, Decision, Project Management, Management, Security, Strategy, Change, Risk, Project
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...
Tags: Jeff Palfini, Decision, Consensus, Team management
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...
Tags: Sales, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Decision, Business 2.0, Time Inc., Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2007-09-05
No Decision Is A Decision
This is not a simple world. It is a sophisticated and complex world. People cannot change this reality; they can only change themselves. There is a key, concentrate area of the thinking which will determine whether this reality is successfully engaged - decision making. This is the pivotal attribute of...
Tags: Decision, Biznik, Tools & Techniques, Leadership, Management
White papers 2008-04-08
Great Decision Making Is A Matter Of Trust And Fairness
One of the cornerstones of a productive and harmonious team is its ability to successfully make good decisions that impact the group. More important then that, it is critical to get all members to buy into the decisions once they are made. Whether you are deciding on your next budget...
Tags: Decision-making, Decision, ExpertArticles.com, Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Management
White papers 2007-01-17
Making Good Decisions
Making good decisions basically comes down to three things: do the things that increase the chances of a good outcome; avoid the things that increase the chances of a negative outcome; adjust your decisions based upon new information. That's it in a nutshell. Follow these three rules and you will...
Tags: Decision, LifeOrganizers.com
White papers 2008-01-01
Making Great Decisions
Our life experience is largely a combination of our state of mind, communication, relationships, actions and our decisions. If someone is to achieve success in some area of life, certainly making well-considered decisions is critical. Learning how you make decisions and how others make their decisions will not only allow...
Tags: Decision, Kevin Hogan
White papers 2008-01-01
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...
Tags: Decision, Brian Hunt
White papers 2008-01-01
You Have Been To The Interview? What Happens Now?
If you have not had any notification from the interviewer or the company after approximately two weeks from the date of your interview it would be a good idea to send them an email or call the interviewer and find out if there has been a decision. If a decision...
Tags: Decision, Interview, Article-Idea.com, E-mail, Online Communications
White papers 2008-01-01
How To Be A Good Decision Maker
Decision-making is an important activity that requires special talent. Our entire future is dependent on the decisions we make. We are faced with many turning points in our life. Only a good decision maker will successfully pass through these turning points. Certain people are afraid to make decisions. Such people...
Tags: Decision, Associated Content, Professional Development, Tools & Techniques, Workforce Management, Career, Management, Human Resources
White papers 2008-10-20
Better Business: Making The Right Decisions
Better business involves making the best decisions for a company. What may seem right for one company can be completely different to another way of thinking for another. Making the right decisions is in some respects down to management accounting, and also down to the management team themselves in working...
Tags: Decision, Associated Content, Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Management, Finance
White papers 2008-10-24
Do Not Just Make A Decision - Make A Smart Decision!
Decision-making is not something you do just once in your lifetime, but time and time again. And decisions are not just made in an instant. Whether it is something major or basically trivial, choosing between options takes time. At one juncture or another, the decisions you have to make may...
Tags: Decision, Associated Content, Tools & Techniques, Management
White papers 2008-09-19
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