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Employee Discipline: How to Nip Problems in the Bud


Are you uncomfortable with delivering disciplinary action, even involving employees you know deserve it? You're not alone. Disciplinary action is one of the least favored tasks a supervisor must occasionally perform.

Five Reasons Why Leaders Fail to Create Successful Change


A bold title, don't you think? I mean, change is a complex thing, so to define five reasons seems to oversimplify the issue. Let me be clear.

Good Idea Generation ? A Process


It seems incongruous that good idea generation can be a process or that a process may lead to insight. However, if you examine the behaviour of people who regularly generate good ideas - such as creatives in advertising - you will find that common patterns of behaviour do emerge and it is possible to make insight more likely.

Why Employee Satisfaction Surveys And Employee Exit Surveys Make Good Sense


In a competitive world with the need for businesses to be more streamlined and productive a company can often find itself with a workforce working under pressure resulting in low moral and high staff turnover. The benefits of a company having a highly motivated workforce can be considerable and the two goals of having a workforce that is both motivated and productive should not be regarded as being mutually exclusive to one another.

Tales from the Corporate Frontlines: The Organizational Structure of Our Growing Business


This article relates to the organizational structure competency, commonly evaluated in employee satisfaction surveys. It shows how structural concerns can affect the typical employee workday, as well as feelings towards your organization's management hierarchy and reporting structure.

Three Business Lessons From The US Postal Service


There was a buzz in the air recently about the US Postal Service. Seems as though they were running into a budget deficit in the billions.

Organizational Techniques - Tickler and Chron File


One of the biggest problems we encounter in our consulting with businesses, and our students is time management and organizational techniques. This article will concentrate on some good organizational strategies.

Knowledge Management - Learning Whilst Doing - Facilitating an After Action Review


Introducing a learning culture into organisations can be difficult at times, particularly if the effort required it great and the benefits aren't quickly identifiable. After Action Reviews (known as AARs) are one of the simplest knowledge management techniques, and have been used to great effect in organisations ranging from the US Army, to BP, and even in the development sector in NGOs like TearFund.

Project Management - Preventing Project Slips


Can Project Managers prevent projects from slipping? Ask a techie to come up with a schedule for a specific list of activities, and more often than not, he/she will present a fairly accurate estimate. Some activities might be underestimated, others overestimated, but overall, the plan will be fairly accurate.

A Journey of a Thousand Miles


You can't build a reputation on what you are 'going' to do.. Henry Ford. Everyone procrastinates in their own way.

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US STOCKS-Futures point to flat open as M&A heats up - Reuters

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