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Making Self-Care A Priority: Time Management
Getting the outer facets of your life into order is an important part of time management, but so also is learning how to balance yourself from within. This is one area that many people skip without realizing how it can keep them stuck in patterns of chaos and distraction. It's...
Tags: Distraction, Chaos, Self Improvement Ideas, Time Management, Productivity
White papers 2008-05-13

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Low Cost Marketing Ideas For Retailers
From the executive summary: ‘Effective self-promotion begins with a strong belief system. Companies should believe in their ideas, concepts, products, and services. In addition, they should believe in what they have to offer others. Companies should strive for continuous improvement and always do their personal and professional best. The aforesaid...
Tags: Confidence, Attard Communications, Retail, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
How to Start a Business If You Know Nothing About Business
I wrote a guest post over at Penelope Trunk's blog Brazen Careerist entitled, "How to start a business if you know nothing about business."Here were five key points I made. More tips, tactics, and insights in my book My Start-Up Life.1. Be committed to personal growth and self-improvement.Start reading booksabout...
Tags: Entrepreneurship, General
Blog posts 2007-05-24
Creative thinking made easy
IdeaWise - How to Transform Your Ideas into Tomorrow's Innovations, By Steve Rivkin & Fraser Seitel, Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, Pages: 220, Price: RM87.80 WITH ITS catchy title and snazzy black cover, IdeaWise - How to Transform Your Ideas into...
Tags: Seitel Inc.
Research articles 2002-12-12
Why People Resist Good Ideas
Article shows that human beings make choices based on their own self-interest. They ignore that at peril if one wants to bring change to an organization or to the world. This is a particular problem for folks who seem to generate lots of ideas. Article generalizes the fact that people...
Tags: Article, Wally Bock, Leadership, Strategy, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
The 100 Best Business Books
The new book 100 Best Business Books of All Time is now out. In this video, 800CEORead's president, Todd Sattersten,talks about the five themes they looked for in books to make their picks. clarity of purpose wisdom in decision-making...
Tags: Books, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2009-02-05
Best of Ben - Popular Posts from the Archives
Many months ago Breck Yuntis at Duke University asked me if I had a "Best of" list for this blog. I've been blogging since June 2004 and have posted 1,011 times. One of the problems with the reverse chronological nature of blogs is that the "best" posts aren't necessarily promoted...
Tags: Blogging, Formal Book Review, third world
Blog posts 2007-02-03
Benefiting from the Balanced Scorecard
Harvard professors Robert Kaplan and David Norton developed the balanced scorecard to help translate vision and strategy into action. This technique can make strategic planning a core part of any business. They showed that financial analysis, which is largely a look backward over past performance, isn't enough to guide long-term...
Tags: investment decision, business process, technique, BPR, standards, financial analysis, Total Quality Management, Strategic Planning, motivation, decision-making, vision, supplier, monitor, financial, strategy, to, Balanced Scorecard, BNET Editorial, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Performance Management, Quality, Marketing Research, Marketing, Performance, Team
Articles 2007-10-03
Building a Learning Organization
The Idea in Brief As we all know, to stay ahead of competitors, companies must constantly enhance the way they do business. But more performance-improvement programs fail than succeed. That's because many managers don't realize that...
Tags: Knowledge, Organization, Strategy, Leadership, Management, David A. Garvin, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Learning, Training
Articles 2008-04-01
Healthcare Industry Labors Mightily, Brings Forth a Mouse
Three weeks ago, a coalition of health industry groups reportedly told President Obama they could cut $2 trillion in healthcare spending over 10 years. A few days later, the American Hospital Association and America’s Health Insurance Plans appeared to be backpedaling, saying that cutting the annual spending growth rate by...
Tags: AHIP, Benefits, Health Care, Healthcare, Human Resources, Ken Terry, Mouse, PHRMA, Vertical Industries
Blog posts 2009-06-01
Starbucks: What Went Wrong at The Top?
Starbucks: What Went Wrong at The Top?StarbucksWhat are the odds of following a wildly successful founder, entrepreneur and maintaining either the street buzz or the meteoric rise? The law of big numbers was going to eventually catch up and you can't fuel a fad forever. Shultz will weather the market...
Tags: Donald, Shultz, Starbucks Corp.
Discussion threads 2008-01-09
Rising Demand Puts Green Businesses in the Limelight
Vodafone's pledge to halve its CO2 emissions by 2020 shows enlightened self-interest. Nice as it is to be green, it also "makes business sense", as Vodafone chief executive Arun Sarin said. InterfaceFLOR, a flooring manufacturer, made a similar, albeit more ambitious, commitment. Its "Mission...
Tags: BNET UK Staff, Accolades, Business
Blog posts 2008-04-22
Will Tech CEOs Retool Their Businesses in the Recession?
Technology CEOs worth their paychecks are going to use this economic downturn to revamp business models and position for the so-called post recession era. It sounds rather obvious, but why don’t all CEOs follow this playbook? We’ve heard the mantra repeatedly: Reload in a downturn. And a...
Tags: Larry Dignan
Blog posts 2008-12-02
Thought Leaders Propose Health Reforms, But Will They Work?
When three preeminent thought leaders like Elliott Fisher, Donald Berwick, and Karen Davis submit a joint proposal for healthcare reform, attention must be paid. Fisher, a professor at Dartmouth Medical School, has coauthored seminal papers about practice variations across the U.S.; Berwick is the president of the Institute for Healthcare...
Tags: Physician, Leader, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Human Resources, Ken Terry
Blog posts 2009-05-22
How Much Money Is Enough Now?
Of all the questions raised in the wake of the Lehman collapse, this might be the one you most need to ask — and the person to ask is yourself. ...
Tags: Financial, Stock, Advisor, Fiduciary, Investor, MoneyWatch, Zvi Bodie, Joseph Heller, Vonnegut, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, One Year Later, Lehman Bros., Feature Package, Recession, Economy, How Much, Enough, John Bogle, George Kinder, Mike Zimmerman
Articles 2009-09-15
LiveBlogging from HCOMP 2009
I am now attending HCOMP2009 , the workshop on Human Computation that I previously advertised in this blog . Overall, the workshop was well-attended with more than 40 people in the audience, pretty much filling the room. Below you can find the notes that I was keeping...
Tags: game, Workshop
News items 2009-11-05
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