Ask Seven Powerful Questions to Design Your Organisation Around its Purpose

Too many organisations are not built to suit their purpose. A periodic review of organisational design against the business purpose helps wipe away inefficient and ineffective structures. Ask these seven powerful questions to determine appropriate structures for your business purpose.

Trickery Used in Consulting to Puff up Resumes - Beware

So often consultants will claim to have worked with 20, 50, 100 or even more Fortune 1000 companies and you will see this listed as a fact on their websites or they will tell you this when trying to sell you as a client. Of course if you ask them to name the companies, instead they send you a list of 5 contacts or references? Really, five now, personal friends or actual clients?

The Winning - Customer-Focused Team

Set high expectations to ensure high performance. Taking care of your internal customers, the staff puts them in a frame of mind to take care of the external customers, and the results are more sales and higher profits.

Documentation and Audit problem Case Study - How to Overcome in TQM Impelmentation Project Part 8b

This TQM article is a case study on problems associated with Documentation and Audit in the CONTROL Phase of the D.I.A.C. Improvement Methodology. The article provides some real life examples on how they were overcome by the team leader.

Managing Your Fleet Is Now Easier Than Ever

Fleet Management help, tips, and ideas.

Teleconferencing Helps You Build a Business Empire

You balk as you look at the phone bill. In the three months it took your company to branch out to a location three continents away from where you are, you've spent enough money on phone bills to buy both an apartment in New York and a Porsche. What worries you the most is that you know this isn't the end of the story, or your phone bills. With key members of your staff calling each other almost every hour, you know those bills would remain as high as your blood pressure level.

The Key to Online Success - Stop Being Evil

Could online America actually be helping us? In a wondrous twist of fate, evil corporations are being forced to do some good to stay alive.

How Naive College Student Graduates Insult Your Potential Vendors

We have a problem with today's college students, when they graduate from college and go to work for large or medium sized companies; they think they know it all. They run off at the mouth with lots of big buzz-words and prove that they do not know what on Earth they are talking about. Then they insult the other party or vendor with some stupid question such as:

Why We'll Beat the Fast-Rising, Tech-Savvy Underdeveloped Countries

This article expresses the turn-around underway in how US companies will regain our position as the number one economic engine in the world.

Addicted to Praise

Some experts think that the young people coming in to business today are narcissistic and addicted to praise. Are they right? And what does that mean for you as a manager?

Risk Factors in Implementing Total Quality Management in Your Organization

Implementing Total Quality Management (TQM) in an organization is not an easy task. Use a systematic approach to assess its likelihood of success in implementing TQM provides an early sign for actions.

Make Room for New Ideas - Encouraging Creativity in the Workplace

Creativity is the basis for innovative products and services. How can managers build practical creative thinking skills in the workplace? By following some radical, simple and yet very powerful steps you are ready to 'Make Room for New Ideas'.

Project Management - Tips on Creating a Project Culture That Ensures a Foundation for Project Succes

Although sometimes it seems that projects take on a life of their own, the simple fact is that projects don't manage themselves. It takes the energy and commitment of a number of people to take a project from the initial idea through inception.