The epicentre of the seizure that has put western capitalism on life support is a crisis of corporate ownership. As former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan lamented, shareholders not only failed to restrain the vaulting ambition of the bankers in the crunch of 2008, even though it was in... read more
One of the best things about the financial markets is that it's a bottom line business. At the end of the year, investors tally up their performance and everyone knows if they made money or lost money. Even though results are pretty objective, that doesn't stop managers from attempting to... read more
Question:I just joined the HR team here, working on a project to identify the complexity of mental processing of our team members. I just wanted to know, is there any effective tool/test available to identify the 4 types of mental processes. Can you please suggest other techniques apart from interviews... read more
This post got us thinking about the booming DIY web design industry.
However, there are millions of people out there who have never heard of wordpress – so this post is for all those who are forced to consult a web designer but really don’t know where to start…
Very few read more...
People assume sometimes that you have to formally be “in charge” to lead a group and I just want to highlight or remind people that this is not always the case.
I see these assumptions mostly with first time managers or those people who have worked in old school organisational cultures read more...
Roberto Martinez has revealed the anger that fired his Wigan players to Premier League salvation.
The DW Stadium will be hosting a party this afternoon to celebrate Wigan's astonishing campaign to avoid relegation yet again.
Their plight was bordering on the impossible when they had what seemed a... read more
BOSTON May 11 (Reuters) - Good companies are always going respond to customers, but the best organizations prioritize and strategize before responding, says Harvard Business Review.
The Management Tip of the Day offers quick, practical management tips and ideas from Harvard Business Review and HBR.org (http:\\www.hbr.org). Any... read more
The activity illusion came onto my radar earlier in the summer in the Chartered Management Institute magazine. There are a lot of “airport manager” type books in the summer months. The kind of light reading that isn’t too taxing but gives you a nice warm feeling.
The activity illusion looked different. read more...
All too often we seek an easy answer to the challenges that face us in order to overlook painful truths, to sweep uncomfortable news under the carpet, to find a scapegoat and move on.
There’s a prolific tweeter and blogger that I follow, who has read more...
I was talking to my friend Emma Fryer (www.answer-It.co.uk) the other day about working from a mobile phone and the problems associated with that like missed calls etc.
As a professional answering company – the deal is far as Emma is concerned is for say Fred the roofer won’t answer read more...
