Free Management Articles

You balk as you look at the phone bill. In the three months it took your company to branch out to a location three continents away from where you are, you've spent enough money on phone bills to buy both an apartment in New York and a Porsche. What worries you the most is that you know this isn't the end of the story, or your phone bills. With key members of your staff calling each other almost every hour, you know those bills would remain as high as your blood pressure level.

How to minimize the weight of your backpack when hiking.

It's three in the morning. Nobody in town is awake except for some hungry bats, a few singing crickets, and a coffee-guzzling security guard inside a factory that is more fortified and secure than Fort Knox. Then suddenly, an intruder appears on the guard's screen. The trespasser leaps towards the floor of the airtight vault, from overhead air ducts. On instinct, the guard reaches over the control panel, and presses the button. As a blaring sound resonates throughout the entire compound, an army of specially-trained armed guards quickly secure the compound. They surround the intruder, cuff him, and then lead him away.

The fierce competition in business has caused quite a lot of business people now to look for innovative means to broaden their market base. While there are many practical ways to make your business grow, there is also another way that is gaining popularity nowadays, which you might want to try out and this is hypnotherapy. This method, which uses hypnotism, is quite popular among people who want to achieve greater change in their lives. However, there is a rising trend lat...

Emphasizes the importance of sound reduction in restaurants and examines some simple restaurant noise control solutions.

Tips for preventing the spread of contagious illnesses in the workplace and at home. This article is of value to Human Resource Directors ,office managers and business owners who want to control employee sick leave.

Collaboration & Team Building: Adding Value to Your Employees A truth that is becoming more self-evident in today's world for sales companies is that your employees are the most important asset your business has. This is especially true in business marketing, and sales force management. What if a valued employee left your business without warning? No one has his or her information (and if you didn't know, as much as 80% of your company knowledge is in the heads of your emp...

A burning issue with measuring call center performance is the validity of the underlying data - what are KPI's really telling us and how can we trust these metrics?

A key component for success in Direct Sales is holding appointments, which produce income. Businesses need to initiate appointments and yours is no exception. The most common sabotage is the mistaken choice to "pre-judge" or decide for a person why they "would" or "would not" want your service. Usually this is to protect ourselves against rejection. We do not want to feel the rejection of a person's "no" or "no, not now" response. Have you ever heard the expression "feel t...

Over the past few weeks, we've been reviewing last year's support cases and - without looking for it - have stumbled across a clear divide between our male and female customers. Our customer base is pretty evenly split (46% men, 42% women and the remainder companies). It's the old preoccupation, questions from our male customers tend to center on the size of their network, those from women on techniques for deepening their relationships. By way of example, here's a t...

Resolving the hidden cause of painful problems at work is an emerging task in the organizations. Lack of open communication and honest communication is the root for 80 percent of problems at work. If you are like most people, keeping things inside is more stressful. People leave their jobs because of unresolved relationship issues. The truth is that all people lie or withhold to some extent and this leads to …..

Great managers get repeatable real time results by doing things differently than conventional wisdom. This article defines how great managers use what we know but refuse to practice. This select group of managers walks a different path that often defies the conventional wisdom of current business practices. While others wish for success great managers achieve it. Their model is not a huge secret and can be easily defined and described. First: Give mission type orders. The ...

The seven qualities that a leader must display in order to successfully manage a business.

SWOT Analysis, an essential tool in strategic planning. It is a process that entails many data gethering and analysis with the external as well as internal environment, assumptions, scenarios and risk factors. This TQM article address how SWOT analysis can be part of the overall Strategic Planning Process.

There's one image of your childhood you can't erase from your mind. At the end of every weekday, your dad follows the same coming-home-from-the-office routine. He walks through the door, drops his briefcase heavily to the floor, and trudges to the living room, grunting at anyone who has the audacity to greet him. This ritual always baffled you, but over time, you realized that you must never work for someone who could turn a kind, loving person like your dad into the Grinch.