Can a Husband and Wife be in Business Together?

Millions of small businesses are run by husband and wife teams. If you are in this group, this article is directed at you.

Going To The Dogs

There are a lot of business models out there for improving your management skills, but let me offer you one you've probably never tried. Find five dachshunds - the more misbehaved the better - and take them for a walk through your neighborhood.

Note that Employee's Negative Behavior

When you give your employee feedback, it's important to make note of it for future reference. This is even more important if the feedback was negative.

Human Capital White Paper

Human capital is just one of an organisation's intangible assets. It is basically all of the competencies and commitment of the people within an organisation i.e. their skills, experience, potential and capacity.

Management And Guiding Principles

All management is based on guiding principles. This is true whether the principles are appropriate or inappropriate, reasonable or unreasonable, consistent or inconsistent. This article will help you understand the most appropriate guiding principles and how to use effective strategies to assure organizational excellence and better assure your success as a manager.

Best Practice Guide To Project Success

As a project sponsor how can you improve your project success rates. Here are 25 practical ways in which you can improve your rates of project success.

An Eight-Point Guide To Successful Staff Management

Without strong direction and motivation, any hotel, is doomed for failure, an operation is successful only when a good leader surrounds themselves with other good leaders, and good leaders surround them selves with good staff.

Knowledge Management

If knowledge is omnipresent, then knowledge management is the discipline that helps put information in the right context and perspective.

Business Management A Skill To Learn!

Management is a skill, some have it inborn and some have to inculcate it by learning and taking courses. However, all of us have to learn business management, since business...

Developing a High Performance Project Team

Much is written in Project Management journals about every conceivable facet of project teams. Topics about their organization, culture, communication with clients, problem solving skills, etc. are virtually endless. There are lots of rules, tips, and suggestions about what they should do but not as much on how to do it. For example, “high performance work teams” has been a catch phrase for a long time. Everyone wants to create one or think they are a part of one but how would a PM actually develop one? If you aren’t sure, this will get you started in the right direction.

Likeable Bosses

Do bosses need to be liked? People respond to authority; that is, until the next opportunity presents itself. Western conventional wisdom suggests that it is important to build trust, credibility and respect; there is no need to be liked. When those characteristics are combined with strong leadership, people will follow...as long as they are realizing benefits for themselves. The question then becomes if we can combine trust, credibility, respect, leadership and likability, can we drive even greater results?

Performance Management Gone Haywire

What has happened with Performance Management? Has it gone haywire? See if there are things that could change to make it work in a more positive process.

Running a Business or Managing a Business?

Growth of a business requires people to work on and not simply in the business. It is a very small amount of directors that actually understand what they are meant to do when they are a director.