How Interim Management Has Evolved
During the nineties, between downsizing and the dot.com era, corporate men and women were becoming endangered species. This meant that organisations were left with little or indeed no spare management capacity.


Date: 2006-12-27

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Date: 2006-12-21

Technology - Does It Make Managers Lazy?
Technology does not replace the need for good management. Without such management, technology can create more problems than it
solves. It's hard to resist the easy option.


Date: 2006-12-18

Creating & Managing Viral Campaigns
Link bait and viral marketing took the stage once again at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in Chicago, presented by veterans of a new frontier. Their presentation reiterated a theme of first creating for the audience, holding on for the ride, and making the most of what comes next.

Date: 2006-12-07

Express Merchant Processing Solutions Can Make Your Holidays
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Date: 2006-12-06

Recovering From Organization-Centricity
Admit you have a problem: The first step to recovery is to admit that you are organization-centric. Say it: "We're organization-centric."...

Date: 2006-11-20

Considering The Importance Of Corporate Culture
When it comes to sizing up job candidates, cultural fit is just as important to consider as qualifications...

Date: 2006-11-14

Managing In A Technology-Driven World
Too often we are managed by the technology. Endlessly busy, it's easy to forget just exactly why we are doing all this work. Are you an email slave? Are you a crack-berry? Are you so focused on the small screen, that you are missing the bigger picture?

Date: 2006-11-06

Revisiting Spilled Milk Management
Spilled milk management is the mindset among many managers and business owners of failing to move beyond a business problem.

Date: 2006-10-23

What It Takes To Be A Good Interim Manager / Executive
The essential qualities needed to be a successful and indeed effective ‘Interim.'

Date: 2006-10-09

The Five Principles Of Keeping A Strategic Focus
Adopting and maintaining a strategic focus in small business plans ensures that the most important issues are addressed. Operating from this mindset is essential in developing a successful small business and mentoring staff development.

Date: 2006-10-02

Quality Activity Equals Quality Resultsm
Failing to focus salespeoples activity reduces efficiency and consequently reduces results, because there is not a salesperson alive that believes they have enough time in their working week to complete all the activities they want to achieve!

Date: 2006-09-26

Motivate With An Employee Incentive Program
Employee incentive programs are designed to reward employees that have excelled in their work. A reward scheme motivates employees to meet and exceed targets and adds to the overall performance of the company.

Date: 2006-09-18

When The Web Team Gets It Totally Wrong
Time and time again web teams get it totally wrong in relation to what customers want. There's a simple reason for this and an equally simple answer.

Date: 2006-09-11

Employee Surveys Increase Employee Performance
Effective management is crucial for a business to succeed, and it is possible only if the right candidate with the right qualifications and expertise does the job competently.

Date: 2006-08-28

How To Develop A Senior Management Team
Effective management is crucial for a business to succeed, and it is possible only if the right candidate with the right qualifications and expertise does the job competently.

Date: 2006-08-14

SES: Press Release Optimization/Blogger Relations
This session moderated by Andrew Goodman of Page Zero Media, is near and dear as press release optimization and online PR are big pieces of my company's consulting practice.

Date: 2006-08-09

Are Employees Really Your Most Precious Asset?
I have yet to walk into a company during my thirty five years in the industry that didn't have some form of this statement about the value of employees printed somewhere.

Date: 2006-07-31

Employee Retention: What Employee Turnover Really Costs Your Company
It's one of the largest costs in all different types of organizations, yet it's also one of the most unknown costs. It's employee turnover.

Date: 2006-07-24

Lead Generation In The Internet Age
InTouch Inc. founder Brian J. Carroll's book, Lead Generation for the Complex Sale goes beyond the well-circulated notions of salesmanship, addressing the new environment couched by the Internet and the long-term sale. But as importantly, Carroll sets up a how-to for managers desperately trying to bridge the gap between their marketing and sales departments.

Date: 2006-07-05

Are You Really A Leader - Or Merely A Manager?
There is a difference between leadership and management. Leadership is of the spirit management is of the mind. Managers are necessary, but leaders are essential. We must find managers who are not only skilled organisers, but inspired and inspiring leaders - Field Marshall Slim.

Date: 2006-06-19

Why You Should Be A Coach, Not Just A Manager
As an outstanding manager, you won't just "manage" people; you'll also assist the members of your team develop to their true potential.

Date: 2006-06-05

Developing Effective Managers
Effective managers are people who possess great skills. In todays work environment managing a team requires more than just telling others what to do and how to do it.

Date: 2006-05-15

Business Management: Honesty As A Policy
Business people often have a blind spot when examining their own companies.

Because of the emotional and personal involvement with the organization problems are often ignored, deliberately downplayed, or even refused entry into the office or boardroom door. A business person ignores the warning signs of impending business danger at her peril.

Date: 2006-05-01

IBM Buyback Program: Cash In, Clear Out, Save…and Be Secure.
Your old PCs are a gold mine of personal information. Selling your computer to just anyone could be the same as handing over your identity. Your best move is to sell your used systems to trusted professionals as soon as you're finished using them.

Date: 2006-04-20

When Does PR Help Managers Manage?
The quick answer is, PR helps managers manage when it (1) moves business, non-profit, government agency and association managers away from a preoccupation with simple tactics like press releases, special events, broadcast plugs and brochures. Then (2), moves them on to PR that creates the kind of external stakeholder behavior change that leads directly to achieving their managerial objectives.

Date: 2006-04-10

Who's #1?
In the March/April issue of Journal of Employee Communication Management (a print publication; subscribers have access to online articles), my good friend Steve Crescenzo questions the notion of companies prioritizing audiences.

Date: 2006-03-27

Powering Up Managerial PR
For many managers, talking about how to power up managerial public relations means talking about favored communications tactics such as press releases, broadcast plugs, special events and brochures.

Date: 2006-03-13

Why The Usual PR Doesn't Cut It
How could it when so many business, non-profit, government agency and association managers apparently believe public relations is all about creating some publicity by moving a message from one point to another using tactics like broadcast plugs, press releases and brochures?

Date: 2006-02-27

A Managerial PR System You Will Love
It's a happy day indeed when business, non-profit, government agency or association managers end their preoccupation with (and reliance upon) the simple mechanics of press releases, broadcast plugs and special events.

Date: 2006-02-13

What People Think Can Kill Managers
By delivering a body blow to their operation when business, non-profit, government agency or association managers, with public relations reporting to them, overlook assembling the PR resources and action planning needed to alter individual perception leading to changed behaviors among their most important outside audiences.

Date: 2006-01-30

PR When Managers Take Control
It's a tune all managers can sing. And the lyrics go like this: successful business, non-profit, government agency and association managers start their winning ways by doing something positive about the behaviors of the very outside audiences that MOST affect their operations. Then they claim the prize when their public relations...

Date: 2006-01-16