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The Business of Baseball: Going to the baseball stadium is no longer just about catching the game on the field, but rather the overall ball park "experience." SF Giants Chief Operating Officer Larry Baer says at AT&T Ball Park, stadium sales account for up to 65% of overall team revenues. From new luxury boxes,...; Tags: team, sales, game; Videos 2008-05-07
"Spleak"ing out on Sports and Politics: Last month, we covered the deal between Hearst Corp. and Spleak Media Network, the San Francisco-based hybrid publishing startup, whose CelebSpleak attracts a reported 100,000 visitors per day, mostly teen and twenty-something females. Now, Spleak is launching two new offerings -- SportSpleak and VoteSpleak. These two...; Tags: Team, Spleak Media Network, Team Management, Management, David Weir; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Motivational Posters Are Lame: I love "How I Met Your Mother," a sitcom that has some of the smartest writing on television. The set design and the inside jokes are clever, which is why I watched part of the last episode with my DVR set to super slo-mo in an attempt to decipher one...; Tags: Team management, CC Holland, motivational poster; Blog posts 2008-05-08
5 Ways to Keep Your Team Intact: Ask any room full of managers and they'll tell you the same tale: Good people are hard to find and even harder to keep. It takes more than a salary and benefits to keep folks in place. And constant turnover can be hell on your team and its productivity. ...; Tags: Team management, Benefits, Strategy, CC Holland, team; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Soldiers Pursuing Harvard MBAs: Most students enter Harvard Business School with company experience under their belts. Increasingly, however, students are arriving with experience not from from the business field but from the battlefield. At Harvard Business School, upwards of 90 students have a military background, and applications from both active...; Tags: Team management, Sean Silverthorne, MBA, Scott Snook; Blog posts 2008-05-05

VW Signs Sponsor Deals With U.S. Soccer Club, League: CHICAGO (Reuters) - Volkswagen AG VOWG and Major League Soccer on Tuesday announced a deal that makes the German automaker the primary sponsor of the Washington club. Valued at $14 million over five years according to the Washington Post, the agreement puts the...; Tags: Team management, Manufacturing, VW, Volkswagen AG, billboard, automobile company, Chicago, club, team, Washington, agreement, U.S., Thomson Reuters Corp., brand, marketing, financial, advertisement, game; News items 2008-05-06
Team Building by Torture? Not So Effective: By now you've heard about the overzealous manager who used waterboarding as a motivational tool for an underperforming sales force. (Boss to team: "You saw how hard Chad fought for air right there. I want you to go back inside and fight that hard to make sales.") ...; Tags: Team management, CC Holland, team-building; Blog posts 2008-04-26
5 Ways to Foil Lunch Thieves: The top workplace etiquette complaint among office workers? Raiders of the lost lunch. A recent study found that a whopping 97.8 percent of office dwellers believed fridge thieves to be the worst offenders. The Lean Cuisine has left the building. The takeout has taken off. So...; Tags: Food & Beverage, Team management, CC Holland, Nothing, takeout; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Scottish Refinery Fire Extinguished: LONDON (Reuters UK) - Scotland's Grangemouth refinery, which closed due to a two-day strike last month, was forced to delay its return to full production after a fire broke out on Saturday, the plant's operator and the fire service said. A spokesman for the refinery's operator...; Tags: Refinery, Team Management, Channel Management, Telecom & Utilities, Management, Marketing, Oukbs; News items 2008-05-10
Getting your Consultants to Deliver: They steal your watch to tell you the time: the old saw about consultancies still rings true. A Management Consultancies Association survey says 28 per cent of organisations are dissatisfied with the consultancies they've used. Tim Phillips, director of Moorhouse Consulting, offers an insider's guide to getting top service: ...; Tags: Team, Consultant, Management Consultancies Association Survey, Team Management, Management, Tim Phillips; Blog posts 2008-04-25
Keep Emotion Out of Decision Making: We've all had the experience of letting our emotions get the better of our actions. But in a business setting, emotional decisions can be costly -- and a quick way to lose your job. But how do you keep cool, calm, and collected in the high pressure...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, decision-making, Sumner Redstone; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Tall Trees, Tall Thinking and Tall Poppies: A recent visit to Western Australia got me thinking about the impact of the tall poppy syndrome in innovation. While walking along the unique 40-metre-high platform in the Valley of the Giants (400-year-old Tingle Trees, some of the world's largest), I was impressed with the innovative...; Tags: Syndrome, Food & Beverage, Team Management, Leadership, Strategy, Manufacturing, Management, Jennifer Goddard; Blog posts 2008-05-04
Cussing Can Build Camaraderie: A new study claims that a foul mouth is the worst of workplace faux pas. According to the report, 36 percent of bosses have issued a formal warning and 6 percent have fired an employee for swearing. Employers may even dump their workers for off-hours profanity: The Washington Post recently...; Tags: CC Holland; Blog posts 2008-04-30
Chinese Eye $15b Electricity Sell-off: China's largest power company is eyeing the NSW government's $15 billion sell-off of the electricity industry.China Huaneng Group has already bought power assets in Queensland and Singapore, Fairfax reports, and now wants to greatly expand its presence in South-east Asia and Australia.The company has asked its "Australian team to...; Tags: Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Chinese Company, Government, Federal Government, Asset Management, Team Management, Vertical Industries, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, AAP; News items 2008-05-09
Guide To Retaining Your Top Talent: Linking Goals, Measurement, And Rewards To Drive Business Performance: Motivating, rewarding, and retaining top performers is a key business objective for any business that seeks to successfully maintain or exceed growth expectations. The challenge lies in effectively aligning employee goals with organizational objectives, automating performance appraisal processes, and linking them with complex compensation policies or time-based incentive plans at...; Tags: Talent, Incentive, Compensation, Performance, Softscape Inc., Performance Appraisal, Performance Management, Team Management, Benefits, Sales Force Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Sales; White papers 2008-03-01
Nailing Jelly To A Tree: Approaches To Self-Directed Work Teams: There is much talk these days about implementing self-managed or self-directed teams. As a process, self-directed work teams become increasingly able to perform functions that in the past were done by others outside the group. As an outcome, it is a team that without a management-appointed supervisor that substantially controls...; Tags: Team, Organized Change, Team Management, Management; White papers 2008-01-01
Jaguar Land Rover CEO Dies After Two-year Illness: DETROIT (Reuters UK) - The chief executive of Jaguar Land Rover has died in his home country of Australia after a long illness, Ford Motor Co F said on Sunday. He was 60. Geoff Polites led the team that turned Jaguar Land Rover back to profitability...; Tags: Land Rover, Ford Motor Co., CEO, Team Management, Management, Oukbs; News items 2008-04-20
Jaguar Land Rover CEO Dies After Two-year Illness: DETROIT (Reuters) - The chief executive of Jaguar Land Rover has died in his home country of Australia after a long illness, Ford Motor Co F said on Sunday. He was 60. Geoff Polites led the team that turned Jaguar Land Rover back...; Tags: Land Rover, Ford Motor Co., Detroit, Australia, CEO, Thomson Reuters Corp., team; News items 2008-04-20
Office Pranks can be Productive: I probably shouldn't officially condone office pranks, but sometimes such shenanigans can be great for morale. Not much brings a diverse group of people together better than a good laugh, and a well-planned prank can really get the guffaws going. I thought I'd...; Tags: CC Holland, Microsoft Office; Blog posts 2008-05-02
Words of Bizdom: As part of the BNET Australia official launch, we're inviting all our readers to submit their best piece of managerial advice and go into the running to win some great wine prizes. We've all heard great pieces of advice from the great business people we've encountered through...; Tags: Advice, Professional Development, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Team Management, Microsoft Office, Career, Office Suites, Software, Management, Brian Haverty; Blog posts 2008-04-30