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		<title><![CDATA[Strategy And Tactics: What's The Difference Between Strategy And Tactics]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=345742]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The urge to merge is ever-present in the corporate breast. The urge to demerge, however, is weaker and less likely to result in action. One major reason for this contrast in attitudes is almost primitive. Even a modest acquisition or merger adds visibly to management's power: by the same token,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Business Strategy: The Conventional Unwisdom - Why Doing What You Are Told Is An Overrated Virtue]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=345743]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Strategy has been having a wonderful run for management's money. Once, strategy was the somewhat arcane province of long-range corporate planners. Now senior managers themselves read the strategic gurus, arrange and attend seminars on strategy and generally add to the torrent of words on the subject. Many of them also...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Business Strategies: Adjusting To The Latest Trends]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=345744]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Natural instinct drives managers and other employees to play 'Follow the leader' and to avoid the insecure unknown in favour of the supposedly safer status quo. Yet business history abounds with examples of leaders who have dragged companies down to the depths, largely by trying to preserve a status quo...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Revolutionary Strategies: Forget About Evolving At Your Own Pace And Develop Revolutionary Strategies]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=345746]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Most managers live in the past. That statement may sound ridiculous. What about all the five-year plans, the spending on research and development, the new initiatives in cyberspace, the ambitious acquisitions, and so on? Despite all that activity, managers are inevitably and deeply affected by what they have, by their...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Risks: There's Nothing Safe In Not Taking Risks And Ignoring Opportunities]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=374241]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The key to innovative risk-taking is to match the organisation to the characteristics of free-thinking, original, courageous minds...and then keep judiciously out of their way. It sounds a very tall order, but the principles are no different from those of managing anybody who you respect and trust. And if you...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SWOT: Assess The Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities And Threats Of Your Business With SWOT Analysis]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=374242]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[How far is my company away from failure? The question itself sounds like an admission of inadequacy. The confident manager surely doesn't walk around waiting for nemesis to strike. Rather, confident people strut the stage like a colossus, with all the certainty, say, of Bill Gates. The question, though, was...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Quality: The Small Business And Total Quality Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=988371]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In many businesses, top-class quality is actually becoming the only road. If you're supplying giants (for example, in cars) they may well insist on quality certifications like BS5750. Getting these can be expensive and burdensome; they don't require plunging into Total Quality Management TQM - but if you're going to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Total Quality: TQM, Business Process Reengineering And Successful Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=988373]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Quality is a word from which few managers can hope to escape for long these days. That's not quality meaning 'Goodness, beauty, luxury, brightness or excellence', nor even meaning a product free from fault. Fault-free products result from true quality, though: paying unceasing attention to the continuous, measured improvement of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Managing Change: Preparing For The Unexpected In Business]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=988369]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Some organisations which have reengineered the right way, by enlisting the collaboration of everybody affected, have found, to their intense relief, that people have cooperated fully in working themselves out of a job. That's the essence of true change management. You don't impose change, but ask managers and other employees...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Business Corporate Strategy: Demergers And The Risks Of Breaking Up The Business]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=345741]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The goal of any online business is to sell something, whether it is a product, service, or information. To do this, you need targeted customers, or traffic, to your web site. Follow the Internet business strategies below to generate customers and cash. One of the top Internet business strategies is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Future Strategies: Forget The Past And Aim Your Future Strategies Towards A Clear End Result]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=345745]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Business strategies mostly founder on the same rock - that man cannot foretell the future. No need a crystal ball to make more accurate predictions. The most important step is to understand the present - what's actually happening right now. 'Economics' is the growing rage in marketing - fitting products...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Growth In Business: Bigger Is Better But Only If It's The Right Kind Of Growth]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=374248]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Why grow? This is a question that nobody asks, let alone answers. It's taken for granted in organizations that growth is good and non-growth is bad. Yet you can easily imagine a situation, growthless but not seriously declining, that is highly agreeable. The usual ways of defining and measuring growth...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Charismatic Leaders - The Charisma Trap]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=988367]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA['When companies look for new leaders, the one quality they seek above all others is charisma. The result, more often than not, is disappointment - or even disaster'. Charisma, however, is only one factor in the rise and rise of chief executive power, the most prominent organizational change of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Total Quality Management: How Total Quality Management Can Improve Your Company's Decision Making]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=988365]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[How can top managers expect their subordinates to embrace any discipline that is shunned at the summit? More important still, how can performance throughout the organisation improve if its senior management is bringing poor processes to bear on the key functions of judgment and supervision which affect everything else? Of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[First Rule Of Successful Business Strategy: Get A Business Strategy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=345729]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Time management is typically associated with work, career or business development. However, time management is also a big factor in improving productivity in personal life. When you know how to manage the time well, not only will your professional life reap the benefits but other areas of your life, too,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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