Build Customer Loyalty By Making a Consistent and Lasting Impression

by Jarie Bolander on April 30, 2012

A Guest Post by Anita Brady Growing and sustaining a small business is not a one-and-done deal when drawing clientele. Ensuring that your doors (whether digital or brick and mortar) continue swinging open with new and returning customers requires persistence. Going the extra mile by advertising through social media outlets, email or phone calls will bring [...]

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Why Social Media At Work May Make Sense

by Jarie Bolander on April 27, 2012

A Guest Post by Laura Backes Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest are just a few of the popular online social media outlets that your employees crave. A lot of different companies are toying with the idea to play or not to play online. The obvious reasons not to allow your employees access to social networks are [...]

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Can A Great Manager, Manage Anywhere?

April 23, 2012

  Management is a fickle beast. What works at one company certainly won’t work at another. Does this problem apply to great managers? Can a great manager, manage anywhere? The Art of Great Management In order to answer this question, we need to look at what makes a manger great. For starters, there are two [...]

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Is Management Consulting Right For You?

April 2, 2012

A Guest Post By Angelita Williams If you are an experienced manager, but have found your resume to be too extensive for the types of positions available in the current market, then you may be overqualified. Instead of going for management jobs further down the ladder, why not do what you love in a different capacity [...]

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5 Ways to Avoid Being A Fire Ant Manager

March 19, 2012

A Guest Post by Greg Marcus There are reams of books written about management, filled with advice, tactics, and strategy for managing people. Some of that stuff is even helpful in certain situations. But the how of managing is not nearly as important as the why. Why is this a goal for you? Stop and [...]

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Managing The Innovator’s Superstitions

March 7, 2012

Innovation is part art, part alchemy, part luck and a lot of hard work. What’s striking about innovators is that even though they are some of the smartest people in the world, they are still human and sometimes do irrational things. Superstition and Innovation It should really be no surprise that innovators are superstitious. It’s [...]

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How to Build An Effective Team

February 13, 2012

  A Guest Post by Wilson Cambell Popular businesses these days focus around certain “teams” to keep projects going, or to make sure everything that needs getting done can be accomplished. How many of these teams know how to function like a real team? A functioning team isn’t a group of people who are randomly [...]

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A Nanny’s Perspective on Achieving A Work-Life Balance

January 23, 2012

A Guest Post by Nancy Parker Jobs these days are hard to come by, there’s no denying that. Competition is fierce, and people are doing whatever it takes to keep a steady paycheck coming to support themselves and their families. Because of this, it’s becoming increasingly easy to blur the lines between work and life, [...]

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How to Lead a Meeting that Doesn’t Waste Everyone’s Time

January 16, 2012

A Guest Post By Lauren Bailey The inimitable Captain James T. Kirk of Star Trek fame once said, “A meeting is an event in which minutes are taken and hours are wasted.” Still, if you work in business, you know that regardless of the value of meetings, they still happen and will continue happening for the [...]

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The Case For The Goodness Business Model

January 2, 2012

  One can get anything if he is willing to help enough others get what they want. — Zig Ziglar There is a trend in business that is starting to emerge that focuses more on doing good than maximizing profit. This trend is a long time coming and appears to be a direct result of [...]

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