One of the primary IT manager skills that an IT manager needs to have is to be able to communicate with others. There are a lot of ways to go about doing this (email anyone?); however, one of the most effective happens…
Everyone who owns or manages a business is a strategist by default and wants to win the war with his or her direct competitors and at the other’s expense. Your direct competitors are no different. Every day they are looking for better…
The Hand Written Diary Hand written diaries work very well. They are especially convenient when traveling to job sites or project meetings. Handwritten notes should contain all of the elements mentioned above. One of the best features of a hand written diary…
A little more than a year ago one of the companies for which I serve as the CFO was experiencing very good sales growth. In fact, about seven months into the year it looked like the company might hit its sales projections…
The terms ‘manager’ and ‘leader’ are often interchanged. It is almost as if some people think that both descriptions mean the same thing. Management and leadership are two totally different roles yet they are pretty much inseparable. In my experience, I’ve observed…
In managing supply, buyers need to measure a supplier’s performance if they are going to get improvements. After all, what gets measured gets done! A common set of performance measures used by Purchasing Executives involves measuring the price you have paid for…
In the days and weeks since the economy began tanking, the workforce has been on an emotional roller coaster. Some people have fallen to terrible lows of fear, uncertainty, and frustration. On and on it goes. While no one knows the outcome…
Management training for your recruitment managers often falls at the end of a long to-do list for most recruitment business owners. With many other urgent and important activities piling up, planning and delivering training is probably the last thing on your stretched…
The ability to communicate is possibly one of the most valuable characteristics that anybody can attain. Whether you’re in business or simply pursuing personal quests, communication is a powerful tool used to achieve goals of every kind. Within the business world, leadership…
I believe some of the employees I have managed thought I was a jerk. Maybe I was the right kind of jerk suggested in this article I read. Jerry Useem in a June 2015 Atlantic article, “Why it pays to be a…
