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- lessons Learned From Bad Tech Hires
- For many small businesses, a key hiring challenge is finding the right person to care for your computers and networks. These folks usually carry the title of network or system administrator. And as your business grows, you may need someone (or two) on staff full time to make sure your...
- White papers
- SCORE Lasting lessons Help Candy Company Enjoy Sweet Success
- The owners of the Herman Goelitz Candy Company, an Oakland, Cal., candy manufacturing business. Despite its reputation for quality and modest annual growth rate, the company yielded only a minimal profit. Mr. McDaniel a SCORE counselor told Herman that they needed to expand, even though they weren't making money. SCORE...
- Case studies
- Business lessons from Gene Simmons
- What do Gene Simmons, Stephen Baldwin, and Nadia Comaneci have in common? According to Donald Trump, they've all done "something very dramatic with money." Along with 11 others, the three will join the cast of The Apprentice this season, competing for $250,000 to donate to the charity of their choice. It should be...
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- Avoiding Cash-Flow Problems
- Cash flow is the life blood of any business, and a core indicator of an enterprise’s financial health and viability. While not a failsafe way to appraise performance, cash flow is as good a barometer as any to quickly judge the financial performance of an entire company, an operating unit,...
- Articles 2007-11-14
- How To Sell in Five Easy lessons!
- by Geoffrey James
- Blog posts 2007-09-28
- Pro Elite Online's Kelly Perdew: Life After "The Apprentice"
- Kelly Perdew is best known for winning Season 2 of "The Apprentice." But he's also a West Point alum, Army Ranger, lawyer, MBA, author and now president of Pro Elite Online, an online community for the fastest growing sport on the planet: mixed martial arts. Perdew shares lessons about...
- Videos 2007-09-02
- Learning in the Thick of It
- The Idea in Brief Like many managers, you probably conduct after-action reviews (AARs) to extract lessons from key projects and apply them to others. But in most companies, AARs don?t fulfill their promise: Scrapped projects, poor investments, and failed safety measures repeat themselves?while...
- Articles 2007-09-24
- Take Free Online Language Classes at Mango
- Traveling overseas? Need to communicate better with foreign language-speaking colleagues? Mango's got you covered. This Web-based classroom offers lessons in 11 different languages, including Chinese, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. In each lesson you're taught specific phrases, which you can have read aloud by clicking individual words or a speaker icon. The...
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- How to Build Rapport on the Phone.
- For most sales reps, rapport-building is easier in person than on the telephone. The reason is simple. In human-to-human communications, appearance (facial expressions, body language, semiotics) often communicates as much, or more, than the specific words that are spoken. That's why basic sales training always starts with...
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- Marketing Wisdom For 2007: 110 Marketers & Agencies Share Real-Life Tips
- This paper is the fifth annual edition of MarketingSherpa's "Wisdom" report, featuring 110 stories and lessons learned from MarketingSherpa's readers, all in their own words. The paper covers the gamut of marketing: segmentation, blocked images, traditional DM and pay per click. To inspire, this report features dozens of real-life test...
- White papers 2007-05-15
- lessons Learned From Leading Organisational Change: Establishing the Ministry Of Social Development
- This paper seeks to capture the lessons learned from conducting organisational change in some New Zealand public sector organisations. The content of the paper is based primarily on information gained from interviews with the chief executives, as well as with senior managers and a cross-section of other staff from MSD.
- White papers 2004-07-01
- Seven Leadership lessons of Next Generation Companies
- There are alternatives to lean and mean management approaches despite their enduring popularity among CEOs and Wall Street. The experiences of a few path-breaking companies offer lessons many companies would do well to consider. While none of these organizations is perfect, all of them succeed by practicing a fundamentally different...
- White papers 2004-04-07
- Procurement of Federal Property for Light Rail Transit: Case Study of the Minneapolis Hiawatha Line
- The building of the Gold Line using the DB model has been an enriching experience to all the members of the PMC (Program Management Consultant) and the Design-Builders. There have been many lessons learned during the course of bringing LRT to the communities affected by the Gold Line. This paper...
- White papers 2003-12-09
- lessons From Behavioral Finance for Retirement Plan Design
- This paper evaluates some of the key lessons of behavioral economics and finance research over the last decade for pension plan design. The discussion is divided into the natural phases of the retirement saving life cycle: accumulation, investment, and decumulation. After reviewing the lessons of behavioral finance, the paper concludes...
- White papers 2003-12-03
- Post Project Reviews: lessons Never Learned
- The article says that learning from previous project problems would seem to be a no-brainer for organizations that do projects for a living. Yet, lessons are rarely learned and the same failures are repeated over and over. What we need is a living lessons learned process that gives the organization...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Learning from Projects
- The "learning organisation" is frequently emphasised in the literature and in practice, and this is particularly important for project-oriented organisations. However, experience tells us that organisations tend not to learn adequately from project experiences. This paper looks first at the behaviour of complex projects, and, looking at the results of...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- lessons From The Stumbling Corporate Giants
- Article brings into notice a lot of killer brands that have been shooting blanks lately. Established companies tend to forget their roots. They start thinking with their brand and not with their benefit. That leads, for instance, to advertising that showcases a logo or the company's former victories. Article, therefore,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Everything You Need to Know about Business Can Be Learned in the Game of Tennis and with a Lot More Fun
- It has been observed that everything one needs to know about business can be learned in the Game of Tennis. By this, they can certainly improve work performance and overall joy. Some of the lesson include: play loose and hit the ball better while exacting less toll on oneself, changing...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- M&A lessons
- Here are a few observations and lessons learned from The American Banker M&A Annual Review for 2002. It is discussed that issues begin to emerge related to pricing, terms, scope of representations and warranties, and indemnification obligations. The lesson is to take time up front in lining up the players...
- White papers 2002-12-01
- Repeating The Past
- Encountering a fraud can be extremely painful. However, the most painful aspect is when one learns a wrong lesson from it. As a result, people tend to commit the same mistake repeatedly, leading to more pain. The people should not only remember their past mistakes, but also the lessons that...
- White papers 2002-07-07
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