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- Review & Outlook: 2000-2001 Title Insurance
- The industry outlook for the year 2000 - 2001 is stable despite market conditions and performance for several reasons. First, the report assigns ratings with a long-term perspective, recognizing that title insurance is a highly cyclical business. Individual company ratings are based in part on experience in previous cycles and...
- White papers 2001-01-16
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- The Next Frontier: Building an Integrated Strategy for Value Creation
- After 2003's double-digit returns, average total shareholder return TSR to date in 2004 is barely above zero. Companies across the world are experiencing a stock pickers' market, where returns are a function more of a company's individual performance than of across-the-board industry or macroeconomic trends. Creating value in such an...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Media's Advertising Rebound: Real Growth or Just Climbing Out of a Hole?
- Some analysts are reversing their downbeat media forecasts from earlier in the year on the likelihood that 2010 advertising revenues and earnings will surprise on the upside. But it is a little too early to break out the champagne. New ad campaigns from beleaguered auto manufacturers such...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Are There Stars in Banking -- or Anywhere Else?
- The latest disclosures about the enormous salaries paid to at least some financial sector employees even as their firms performed dismally have produced public outrage. The companies’ response is that they have to pay well in order to attract and retain talent. But the idea that organizational performance reflects talent...
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Improving Prospecting Performance
- Prospecting is a process of selecting the best candidates for a sales pitch. By using research to build an understanding of your prospects' needs, you can define the companies and individual decision makers most likely to lead to a sale. Good prospecting identifies the quality candidates—those who are most likely...
- Articles 2007-11-07
- 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
- Measuring Marketing Performance
- Marketing is a necessary investment for generating and maintaining profit, rather than just an expense. Finding, getting, and retaining business costs money. As a result, marketing executives need to know the return on investment ROI of their marketing expenditure. However, measuring marketing activities can be problematic. To take a simple...
- Articles 2007-11-26
- Why Traditional Performance Management Is Insufficient For Peak Performance
- From the executive summary: ‘The realities of today's business environment require companies to be fast, focused and adaptable in order to thrive. Business processes that hinder these organizational capabilities must be reworked and updated. Processes that pass information rapidly, that foster communication among the people working interdependently, and that help...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Does Your Company Feel Like a Community?
- The Bambara are the main farming tribe in Mali. They have great respect for words, which are like gods to them. Words, like gods, can make anything happen. So a wise elder will not speak much. So when the elder decided to speak,...
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- Conducting Performance Appraisals
- As you become responsible for managing other people, you will likely need to conduct performance appraisals. These face-to-face discussions—ideally undertaken at least every 12 months—provide an opportunity for a manager and employee to review the employee's work and to improve motivation and performance. Unfortunately, many managers dislike conducting appraisals and,...
- Articles 2007-10-10
- Recruiters' New Secret Weapon: Psych Tests that Predict Job Performance
- Recruiters' New Secret Weapon: Psych Tests that Predict Job PerformanceRE: Recruiters' New Secret Weapon: Psych Tests that Predict Job PerformanceYes, this whole idea of someone coming up with a test that would somehow be an all around conclusive, and tell all, is just BS. I have been in the business...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-20
- American Capital Strategies Ltd. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. And our first question comes from the line of Sanjay Sakhrani of KBW. Please go ahead. Sanjay Sakhrani – Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Hi. Thanks for taking my question. Just a quick question on the ’08 dividend guidance, how much of the...
- Earnings calls 2007-11-02
- Performance Management Instead of Layoffs: Incompetent Managers Cost Businesses Too Much (Part 2)
- The company has to protect itself, its other employees and even the career of the individual who has been over-promoted. The question is, how can this be done in a manner that effective and efficient for the company and that protects the ego of an otherwise valuable employee who got...
- White papers
- 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...
- White papers 2008-03-22
- Digital Equipment Corp. Slashes Financial Perks.(Originated from The Boston Globe)
- Aug. 3--Reneging on earlier promises that employee bonuses would be tied to the performance of individual company units, Digital Equipment Corp. has slashed financial perks to one of its most profitable sectors, the Network Product Business Unit, sourcAug. 3--Reneging on earlier promises that employee bonuses would be...
- Research articles 1996-08-03
- Setting Up a Limited Liability Company
- A limited liability company LLC affords its members limited liability, tax benefits similar to those of partnerships, and better access to financing. However, LLCs also have greater administrative burdens and must disclose more details about the business's finances. This article looks at the advantages and disadvantages of LLCs and describes...
- Articles 2007-10-22
- Performance-Enhancing Drugs at Work: An Ethics Poll
- Performance-Enhancing Drugs at Work: An Ethics PollNot an either/orThe use of synthetic drugs to enhance performance is an issue to me, not so much because it helps an individual perform better, but because of the long-term effects on the brain and body. The extended use of steroids has been proven...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- Forget "Talent" and Start Keeping Score
- Â The sharp downturn in the world economy has changed the nature of the talent business. It's suddenly gone from frantically trying to recruit bright and able people to focusing on keeping and developing them. A chief executive of a large British company recently...
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Southwestern Energy Company Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you, sir. Operator instructions Our first question comes from Tom Gardner with Simmons & Company. Please go ahead. Your mike is open. Tom Gardner – Simmons & Company Good morning, everyone. Harold Korell Hi, Tom. Tom Gardner – Simmons & Company Hey. Harold, I'd like to...
- Earnings calls 2009-02-28
- Career Development As Part Of A Performance Management Program
- One of the fundamental factors for bringing about an effective performance management program is often one of the most forgotten. All too often a supervisor will mistakenly focus all of his or her resources entirely on rating and ranking the workforce, doling out promotions or laying off workers as need...
- White papers 2004-01-01
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