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What Color is Snow White?
This article mainly focuses upon four primary styles of leadership. These styles are strategic results-based leaders, vision-based leaders, people-based leaders and information-based leaders. These types of leadership have been explained in the article as they form a core of the business. Thus, by tapping into own energy and opening up...
Tags: Leader, Refresher Publications, Leadership, Management
White papers
The Independent Business Professional
From the executive summary: ‘The set of skills, attributes and attitudes of the independent business professional are precisely those needed by individuals and organizations alike to respond effectively within a turbulent environment. In this sense individuals and organizations share a common challenge of adapting quickly to new and unique circumstances...
Tags: Refresher Publications
White papers 2003-01-01
Retirement Ready? Prepared For The Unexpected?
According to the paper, unemployment is mostly dependent on the mental, emotional, and financial preparation for the precipitating event. Earlier retirement used to be like receiving a gold watch, pension, and social security but today many people retire intentionally and voluntarily through careful planning because they find themselves involuntarily retired...
Tags: Retirement, Financial, Refresher Publications, Financial Accounting, Finance
White papers 2003-01-01
Unleashing The High Performance Workforce
From the executive summary: ‘Modern organizations are facing some overwhelming challenges, such as key skill shortages, new flexible work patterns, an emphasis on work/life balance, and an increasing need for virtual teams. Addressing these issues is just as important as having top management, the right product portfolio, the best processes,...
Tags: High-performance, Refresher Publications, Marketing Research, Collaboration, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
E-Learning And The E-Workforce
From the executive summary: ‘Knowing how to get started on purchasing or creating a company-wide e-learning program for employees requires an understanding of new learning models and technologies. As with most educational institutions, businesses are muddled with learning models created in times of information scarcity.' The paper examines this issue....
Tags: Refresher Publications, E-learning, Training And Certification, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2003-01-01
How To Take The Pain Out Of Performance Reviews
From the executive summary: ‘For many years, performance management was an annual event dreaded by both the management and the workforce. Today more than ever before, the entire performance management process is in the spotlight. Companies need factual, reliable systems to make tough business decisions. Performance management data is being...
Tags: Performance, Performance Review, Refresher Publications, Performance Management Data, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Planning In The Real World
From the executive summary: ‘A planning process can help to sharpen a vision, define good alternative paths to getting there, build common understanding and commitment, focus resources, balance dreams with reality, and shorten the time to reach important goals.' In the modern-day dynamic business era, it is imperative for the...
Tags: Refresher Publications, Team Management, Workforce Management, Strategy, Management, Human Resources
White papers 2003-01-01
Is Your Financial Situation Holding You Hostage
Financial freedom often is quoted as a major determinant of personal success. This is, perhaps, because it is the prime mover in turning dreams into reality. Financial planning is the process of systematically planning for management of the finances. It involves setting goals, identifying barriers to achieve goals, and developing...
Tags: Financial, Refresher Publications, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance
White papers 2003-01-01
The Concept Of Strategy - Beyond Strategic Planning
Strategy denotes planning and mental modeling activities in an organization with a purpose of charting a successful course of action over an extended period of time. However, the concept of strategy can be viewed from varied angles in order to get an insight into the strategic thinking. The paper explains...
Tags: Refresher Publications, Research & Development, Strategy, Strategic Planning, Business Operations, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Establishing A Continuing Business Model Innovation Process
Most ‘business process development' focuses on improving or replacing existing processes and activities that are long-standing and well-understood. Researches indicate that a business process development is required when the company lacks the process, which possesses the potential of sustainability. The paper examines how to establish a continuous business model innovation...
Tags: Innovation, Business Process, Refresher Publications, Operational Planning, Leadership, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Value Based Pricing Saves the Day!
Price problems are rarely pricing problems! Although many companies face demands for lower price, this does not always mean prices are too high. Demands for lower price may be caused by inadequate competitive differentiation, bad negotiating policy, failure to communicate value, and even by neglecting to ask for higher prices....
Tags: Refresher Publications, Price, Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
Leadership: Now and Then
What an exciting time to be a leader! There are more opportunities and more stimulating challenges than ever before. Never has there been a greater opportunity to contribute more and to grow more. With the opportunities and stimulating challenges of course must also come potentially stress-inducing challenges. There is a...
Tags: Refresher Publications, Leadership, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Give Your Headlines The 'So What?' Test
No element of a piece of writing is more important, yet perhaps less appreciated, than the humble headline. While headlines are most commonly associated with newspaper articles, they're also essential in display and classified advertising, posters, billboards, newsletters, interoffice memorandums, and even in e-mail messages. Headlines serve an identical function...
Tags: Advertisement, Headline, Refresher Publications, Corporate Communications, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
Job Talk - The Heart Of Productivity
Productivity is the sum total of work accomplished by an employee in a given job which affects the bottom line. The work environment may be considered a lake. If miscommunication, poor communication, or non-communication hinder an employee from performing duties in a cost- efficient manner, it's a ripple felt throughout...
Tags: Job, Refresher Publications, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2000-01-01
The Need For Feedback
As a busy executive constantly balancing schedules, deadlines, and priorities while dealing with a vast variety of personalities, there is an often-neglected resource that can make the difference between success and failure and conducting business with relative strangers or trusted partners. The crucial resource is feedback. Though it can come...
Tags: Feedback, Refresher Publications, Productivity
White papers 2002-01-01
Ten Dynamics In Dealing With Disruptive Audience Members
No matter how eloquent ones delivery is or how riveting the content is , from time to time, one has to deal with disruptive audience members - those who arrive late, leave early, carry on side conversations with their teammates, or disagree wholeheartedly - and loudly. When that's the case,...
Tags: Refresher Publications, Audience Member, Productivity
White papers 2003-01-01
Seven Sins To Avoid With Your Next Public Speaking Engagement
The words of great speeches endure not only because of the strength and relevancy of their prose, but because of the charisma and thoughtfulness of their presenters. Because most people are better readers than listeners, it's best to not only speak slowly and clearly, but to avoid any jargon or...
Tags: Public Speaking, Speech, Refresher Publications
White papers 2002-01-01
Raising The Executive Performance Bar Why We Shoot The Messenger
Product life cycles are growing shorter, customer expectations are growing higher, and technological innovation pushes the rate of change to higher and higher levels. The competitive bar for companies rises constantly, which means that the performance bar for executives rises with it. Just as companies that thrive will...
Tags: Performance, Refresher Publications, Performance Improvement, Performance Management, Leadership, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
White papers 1999-01-01
Raising The Executive Performance Bar Delivering The Message
The resistance or defensiveness often takes the form of arguing, excuses, explanations for current behavior, or outright denial. The effect of defensiveness is that new and higher levels of effectiveness are difficult to reach for executives and, ultimately, the organizations they lead. The article begins with a brief summary of...
Tags: Performance, Feedback, Refresher Publications, Executive, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 1999-01-01
Raising The Executive Performance Bar Getting The Message
As organizations face rising customer expectations and competitive demands, it is essential that the executives leading those organizations achieve higher and higher levels of personal effectiveness. Given the interdependent and complex transactions that characterize most modern organizations, there is no way for executives to improve their personal effectiveness unless they...
Tags: Performance, Refresher Publications, Executive, Leadership, Management
White papers 1999-01-01
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