Management Diary
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How Invisible Communication Barriers Kill Productivity
Many kinds of interferences or disturbances can confuse a message. Communication specialists call them ''noise.
Five Tips for Analyzing an Income Statement
In today's article, we'll be looking at the income statement, which is the most deceptively simple of the major financial statements. I say simple because it's just a list of all the revenue, minus all the expenses, to calculate what's left over in profit.
The Ins and Outs of Internal and External Relations
INTERNAL PUBLIC RELATIONS: Never overlook an opportunity to do internal public relations about your department and its offerings. A training department must, first and foremost, be visible in the organization it serves.
Success: A Wholistic Perspective
When I was growing up...
What Every Manager Should Know About How to Maximize the Two People Inside
Every one of us, in reality, has two people inside: The person we are today and the person we can become tomorrow and in the future. We go to work every day, are never late or absent, earn a promotion; and receive occasional raises.
Developing Your Mission
'The best Leader is one who knows how to pick good people to do what he or she wants done and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.' - Heidi Richards - Mission statements describe the purpose of an organization or a sub-group of it.
Change or Die! To Change Your Organization, Hire a Business Coach
It is a common business axiom - change or die. As a small or mid-sized business owner or a manager, there will be times you will need to make changes in your organization but may not be sure how to go about it.
Quality Improvement is Free
The point of a quality improvement program should not only be to improve a product or the delivery of healthcare but it should also be to save time and money by reducing or eliminating waste or errors. For example, a doctor or nurse practitioner writes a prescription.
Juggling Demands in an Organization
JUGGLING DEMANDS: All leaders constantly juggle a multifarious array of demands from those of their organization, employees, and themselves. Good leaders, never drop one demand at the expense of another equally important requirement.
The Art of Motivation and Need Fulfillment
Industrial/clinical psychology and applied psychiatry have made tremendous strides in understanding human behavior. New discoveries and applications toward understanding human behavior are being announced with increasing frequency in these inexact sciences.
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Bush says backs strong dollar policy
(Reuters)
 Reuters - President George W. Bush said on
Sunday the American economy was not growing as quickly as he
would like and that his administration supported a strong
dollar policy.
Hyundai cuts, Kia lifts domestic sales target
(Reuters)
Reuters - Hyundai Motor Co (005480.KS), South
Korea's top auto maker, said on Sunday it had cut its local
sales target for this year by 6 percent as record-breaking oil
prices are hitting consumer sentiment in Asia's fourth-largest
economy.
G-8 meets as economy storm clouds thicken
(AP)
 AP - Between surging oil prices, food inflation and a credit crunch that's depressed global growth, leaders from the Group of Eight economic powers face the gravest combination of economic woes in at least a decade when they gather next week.
Kimmitt confident in economic fundamentals
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert
Kimmitt said on Friday he was confident about the United
States' economic fundamentals in the long term despite a
current rough patch and was quite optimistic about the future.
Gas prices hit another high for holiday weekend
(AP)
 AP - Fireworks aren't the only thing skyrocketing on this Fourth of July. The price of gas has hit another all-time high.
62,000 jobs lost, off nearly half-million for year
(AP)
 AP - The nation lost jobs for a sixth month in a row in June, a storm of pink slips drenching this year's July Fourth holiday for more than 60,000 Americans and leaving thousands more worried about the future.
G8 to tackle inflation, but concrete action elusive
(Reuters)
 Reuters - G8 leaders aim to present a united front
against global inflation, driven by soaring oil and food
prices, at a summit in Japan next week, but solving the problem
requires more than just a strong message from rich nations.
Inflation, not credit crunch, is top concern worldwide: Paulson
(AFP)
 AFP - Inflation, and not the credit crunch, is the biggest economic concern worldwide, especially in developing countries, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in an interview Thursday.
IBD's Top 10 - Thursday
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - 1 The 6th straight monthly payrolls drop was in line with forecasts, though April and May payrolls were revised lower. That bodes ill for the economy, but recessions typically have bigger job cuts. Unemployment stayed at 5.5%, defying forecasts for a dip after May's spike. Factories and home builders slashed staff. Rising jobless claims signal more job losses ahead.
Wall Street firms reduce, banks step up Fed loans
(AP)
 AP - Wall Street companies sharply scaled back their borrowing from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program over the past week while commercial banks boosted it slightly.
Economy extends job loss streak
(Reuters)
 Reuters - U.S. employers cut workers for a
sixth straight month in June for the longest such streak since
2002 and the country's vast service sector unexpectedly
contracted, underscoring the economy's frailty.
Service sector contracts as orders fall
(AP)
AP - Higher oil prices caused service businesses to shrink in June, as falling new orders and rising costs hit the nation's coffee shops, paper mills and corner stores.
New York cabbies struggle as fuel costs hack pay
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Tired of pumping his cash right back
into his gas tank, New York City taxi driver Mohammed Kalair
says he is considering quitting his job and going back to his
native Pakistan.
Stocks end mixed following jobs, services data
(AP)
 AP - Wall Street capped a shortened trading week with a mixed finish Thursday after some uneven economic data: news of a contraction in the nation's services sector and a tame reading on employment. But stocks still had their third dismal week in a row, with the major indexes again posting losses as worries about rising oil prices and the fallout from the credit crisis dogged the market.
U.S. cuts jobs for 6th month
(Reuters)
 Reuters - U.S. employers cut workers from
their payrolls for the sixth straight month in June for the
country's longest losing streak since 2002, while the
unemployment rate held steady at 5.5 percent, government data
on Thursday showed.
Jobless lines growing longer
(AP)
AP - The number of newly laid off people signing up for unemployment insurance rose sharply last week.
Paulson says US economy set to strengthen
(AFP)
 AFP - US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said here on Thursday that the US economy would most likely be stronger at the end of 2008, even as oil prices surged to new records above 146 dollars.
Don't blame the buck for high oil price: Paulson
(Reuters)
 Reuters - A weaker dollar cannot be blamed for
soaring oil prices as policymakers around the world tussle with
the twin specters of rising inflation and slowing growth, U.S.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Thursday.
Paulson: inflation becoming top global focus
(Reuters)
 Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
said on Thursday inflation was becoming the top economic focus
of many countries around the world as oil and food prices take
their toll.
Paulson says US economy enduring 'rough period'
(AFP)
 AFP - US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Wednesday that the US economy was enduring "a rough period" and warned that home foreclosures would likely remain high in the near future.
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