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Business Trail Blazer: John Aiello
Savo Group CEO John Aiello explains how his sales software company grew from two to 80 employees in eight years and the lessons he's learned.
Tags: Video, Management, Sales, Tools & Techniques, Sales Force Management, Lesson, Sales Strategy
Videos 2008-06-09
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...
Tags: Lori Deschene, Lesson
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,...
Tags: Customer Service, Cash Flow Statement, Business, Lesson, Operational Accounting, Finance, Money, Cash Flow, Customer, Cash-Flow, BNET Editorial
Articles 2007-11-14
How To Sell in Five Easy Lessons!
by Geoffrey James
Tags: Lesson, Geoffrey James
Blog posts 2007-09-28
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...
Tags: Garvin, Team Management, Performance Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, BNET Editorial, AAR, Team, Lesson
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...
Tags: Web, Lesson, Mango, Rick Broida, Marketing, Channel Management
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...
Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, potential friend, Lesson, Geoffrey James, Sales, Voice, Rapport, Phone
Blog posts 2007-09-18
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...
Tags: Internet, Lesson, Entrepreneur, Management, Leadership, Kelly Perdew, Donald Trump
Videos 2007-09-02
Avoid The Same Old Mistakes By Focussing On Lessons Learned
It's said there are no new project management sins, just old ones repeated. It's also said that we don't learn the lessons from past projects and this must be true, otherwise why would we keep making the same old mistakes. Creation of a successful lessons learned culture needs leadership support...
Tags: Lesson, Project Smart, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Leadership, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
White papers 2008-04-07
Job-Search Lessons Learned In A Year Of Economic Meltdown
The end of the year is a good time to look back and assess what has worked for you and what hasn't in the last year. That's especially true for reviewing success and failures in the job search - and particularly relevant in a year of economic downturn. We put...
Tags: Lesson, Quintessential Careers, Professional Development, Entrepreneurship, Recruitment & Selection, Career, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2008-01-01
Ten Sales Lessons From The Internet
Are you feeling threatened by the explosive growth of the Internet? Traditional selling and marketing methods are facing new challenges daily relative to the benefits of electronic commerce. Considering the impact this medium is having on the marketplace, there must be some very enticing things about how business is done...
Tags: Sales, Lesson, SalesResources.com, Internet, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2005-10-28
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...
Tags: M&A, Lesson, Fredrikson & Byron P.A., Mergers & Acquisitions, Pricing, Marketing Research, Investment, Finance, Marketing
White papers 2002-12-01
Teck Gives a Lesson in Timely Tactics
Bill Cara submits: [excerpted from Bill Cara's Daily report] In the Week In Review this past weekend, I gave you a heads-up re Teck Corp TCK. by Bill Cara
Tags: Tactic, Lesson, Seeking Alpha, Bill Cara, Gold & Precious Metals
External links 2008-11-05
Story-Telling Basics - 7 Powerful Steps To Telling Great Stories!
Throughout time, the greatest orators and teachers have illuminated their lessons by telling powerful stories. Story-telling is a great way to engage your audience and show them how your topic, point or lesson relates to them specifically. Unfortunately, not everyone is born a great story-teller, and some stories are better...
Tags: Story, Lesson, Gate Articles
White papers 2008-01-01
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...
Tags: Lesson, SCORE, Manufacturing
Case studies
Neglected Financial Lessons
The article says that years since World War II have been an extraordinary eventful and highly inventive period in financial history. Along with the unprecedented growth and innovation are accompanied a number of disturbing financial mishaps, scandals and credit crunches. What should we have learned from this remarkable period in...
Tags: Financial, Lesson, Capital Ideas Online, Financial Accounting, Finance
White papers 2000-08-29
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...
Tags: Lesson, 4PM.Com, Leadership, Team Management, Management
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...
Tags: Lesson, Management Science
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,...
Tags: Brand, Lesson, Branding, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
Validation: Lessons From The Past
The article discusses the market risk methodologies of the past two decades to derive useful lessons that can be applied to validating credit risk. Risk managers have always had to justify their estimates of future capital requirements and underlying risk indexes to senior management and shareholders. Market risk practitioners were...
Tags: Lesson, Credit Risk, Productivity, Financial Accounting, Finance
White papers 2001-03-01
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