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Five Ways to Deal with Stress
Feel stress — often resulting from the idea that you've lost control, which is a common sensation nowadays — and confidence erodes. Different people experience stress from different conditions and situations, so there isn't one recipe for beating it. But you can learn to change your reaction to it. ...
Tags: Leader, Rosch, Leadership, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Stress, Confidence, Recession, Downturn, Economy, Managing, Managing in a Recession, Andrew Tilin
Articles 2009-04-21
How Confident Are You? Take the Test
Here's a quick guide to seeing where you land on the confidence spectrum, plus advice for improving your game. Overconfident ...
Tags: Employee, Leader, Leadership, Corporate Governance, Games, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Confidence, Leading, Downturn, Recession, Managing in a Recession, Overconfidence, Michael Dell, Jack Welch, Andrew Tilin
Articles 2009-04-21

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Tips on Managing in a Recession from Tom Peters
The Find: Everyone wants to know how they can be a better manager in these challenging economic times, and management guru Tom Peters has tips: just don't expect any miracle cures. The Source: The blog of Tom Peters. The Takeaway: Declining profits and the...
Tags: Payment, Recession, Blog, Blogging, Internet, Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2009-03-30
Cash-Flow Management In A Leveraged Environment
Successful cash flow management in a leveraged environment must involve the entire organization. Highly leveraged firms cannot rely solely on finance executives to manage cash flow. Everyone must shift mind-sets from operating income and earnings per share to free cash flow. This requires a basic understanding of the cash flow...
Tags: Environment, Cash Flow, Better Management.com, Operational Accounting, Finance
White papers 2002-01-01
How to Decide in a Time of Confusion
A practical five-step plan to make sure you have the data (and the mind-set) you need to make great decisions in a time of unprecedented risk and uncertainty. Study Your Business Environment Goal: Compile information to understand what you know...
Tags: Team, Korean Air, Worker, Ram Charan, Team Management, Management, Uncertainty, BNET Crash Course, Decisionmaking, Downturn, Recession, Managing a Team, Kim Girard,  Kim Girard
Articles 2009-05-04
Managing Value in a Downturn
"Branding in a Recession : Current economic conditions are trying, and to more recent generations of company managers may seem unique. However, downturns have been experienced before and there are tremendous lessons to be learned from previous recessions. This paper concentrates on the need to pinpoint brands as potentially...
Tags: Asset, Brand, Recession, Inter Brand, Branding, Asset Management, Marketing, Operational Planning, Business Operations
White papers 2003-01-01
How to Get a Raise in a Recession
It won?t be easy, but making these adjustments to your strategy and approach will give you a fighting chance. Do Your Research Even if you believe your work ethic and results are the stuff of office legend, you’ll...
Tags: Job, Recession, MoneyWatch, Sales Strategy, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Sales Force Management, Sales, Career, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Getting a Raise, Salary Negotiation, Salary Review, Compensation, Mad Men, Peggy Olson, Eilene Zimmerman
Articles 2009-09-22
In a Gloomy Economy, Signs of Light
In a Gloomy Economy, Signs of LightRE: In a Gloomy Economy, Signs of LightFirst, the Feds must take care of the middle class which is at least 70% of the economy. A rebate check of $1,000 would stave off a very gloomy Christmas.Instead of bailing out the high-rollers, we...
Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Taxes, Investment, payroll solutions, Gloomy Economy, welfare
Discussion threads 2008-09-16
Best Buy Struggles To Gain as Recession Weights Against Circuit City Demise
Best Buy is caught in a recessionary malaise and, while effectively managing operations, it’s stuck in a tough spot as the main rivals the company faces now a days have more than electronics to lure frugal consumers into stores. In the first quarter ended May 30, repair...
Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., Recession, Electronics, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Mike Duff
Blog posts 2009-06-22
Strategy in a âStructural Break'
During hard times, a structural break in the economy is an opportunity in disguise. To survive—and, eventually, to flourish—companies must learn to exploit it. There is nothing like a crisis to clarify the mind. In suddenly volatile and different times, you must have...
Tags: Break, Capital Structures, Economy, Finance, Financial-services Industry, Functions, Management, McKinsey, Mortgages, Strategic Thinking, Strategy
Articles 2009-01-12
How to Manage Investors in a Down Market
When the economy is in upheaval, successfully managing investor expectations can be the difference between survival and disaster. Take Inventory of the Damage Goal: Understand how the economy is affecting your organization. Tailoring investor relations to a...
Tags: Investor, IR, Financial Accounting, Finance, Investor Relations, SEC Regulations, Strategy, Crash Course, Downturn, Recession, Risk Assessment, Shareholders, Marie C. Baca
Articles 2009-01-09
Managing Value in a Downturn: Branding in a Recession
Current economic conditions are trying, and to more recent generations of company managers may seem unique. However, downturns have been experienced before and there are tremendous lessons to be learned from previous recessions. This paper concentrates on the need to pinpoint brands as potentially the most resilient assets a company...
Tags: Asset, Brand, Recession, Downturn, Inter Brand, Current Economic Condition, Asset Management, Branding, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Marketing
White papers 2003-10-27
Q&A: Merck's Kevin Nalty, YouTube Star, Explains Why He Quit
Kevin Nalty was Merck's consumer product director on Propecia until last week when he quit after a series of videos he posted on YouTube drew too much attention to the drug company. The move came after it emerged that he was “Nalts,” the creator of a YouTube video titled “Farting...
Tags: Merck & Co. Inc., YouTube Inc., Video, Propecia, KN, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2009-05-27
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...
Tags: American Capital Strategies Ltd.
Earnings calls 2007-11-02
At CES, Tech Players Promise to Spend Despite Sour Economy
by Abbey Klaassen and Michael Learmonth Published: January 12, 2009 LAS VEGAS (AdAge.com) -- Two common reactions to a recession: hunker down and cut back or use the opportunity to take market share with product development and marketing. At the Consumer Electronics Show last week, some of the nation's biggest...
News items 2009-08-07
Time-Tested Advice On How To Recession-Proof Your Business.(MetLife Financial Services)(Brief Article)
Eric Ullman, managing director of the MetLife Financial Services agency in Lake Success, N.Y., has been thinking a lot lately about the prospects of a recession and how it might affect the 65 agents in his shop, many of whom have not lived through a ...
Tags: financial service, MetLife Inc.
Research articles 2001-01-08
Where to Find the Bright Spots in 2009
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The worst November-December retail season since 1970; taxpayer bailouts to save Detroit; marketing budgets slashed; tens of thousands laid off across agencies, media companies and marketing departments; and still more cuts coming every day. You've read the bad news, and no one's denying that it's grim,...
News items 2009-08-07
IS THE RECESSION REALLY OVER?
David A. Rosenberg is Chief Economist & Strategist at Gluskin Sheff, with a focus on providing a top-down perspective to the Firm's investment process. Mr. Rosenberg has earned both Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in Economics from the University of Toronto. Prior to joining Gluskin Sheff, David...
Tags: Recession, equity
News items 2009-08-19
Family Dollar Managing the Tough Parts
Retailers who have been successful in the recession usually have had some kind of value offering in food and consumables, which might range from inexpensive produce to discount pricing on diapers, products that seems like an everyday shopping bargain to some group of consumers, but progress for Family Dollar has...
Tags: Recession, Department, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Retail, Food & Beverage, Sales, Manufacturing, Mike Duff
Blog posts 2009-03-09
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now be conducting the question-and-answer session. Operator Instructions. Our first question is coming from Lee Westerfield with BMO Capital. Please state your question. Lee Westerfield Thank you and good morning. These are clearly unprecedented times. ...
Tags: Call Transcript, Earnings, Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., Question, Financial Services, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2008-11-05
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