Business Management

Optimize Your Time and Focus: 3 Success Tips

Want to optimize your time and focus? Try these 3 effective, short and sweet techniques that I've had great success using ... that I think you might benefit from test-driving as well.READ»

Hyper Island Grooms the Next Generation of Digital Media

Mattias Hansson helps train 1,300 students a year in digital media, interactive art direction, and digital business management in Stockholm and on a former prison island off the coast of Sweden. Graduates are hotly recruited by such firms as Crispin Porter + Bogusky and Ideo.READ»

• Entertainment Academy
• Startup School
• Degrees of Green

Silkin Management Group on dealing with problems in a practice

In dealing with problems that can develop in a practice, there are six basic maxims...READ»

You can't control the economy...

You can't control the economy... You can't control the economy, but you can control your practice.

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Researchers and patients...

Researchers at the University of Southern California School of Dentistry say they have improved upon a surgical procedure developed by periodontist Tom Wilcko that rapidly straightens teeth, delivering a healthy bite and attractive smile in months instead of years.READ»

Silkin Management Group Saves Dental Practices While Many Fail

Lake Oswego, OR – Silkin Management Group (http://www.silkinmanagementgroup.com), a 25 year old health care practice management firm, saves dental practices in the toughest economic times since the 1930s with recommendations most failing practices ignore. Many very good and talented dentists are making the wrong business decisions and end up losing their practice.READ»

Silkin Management Group Rescues Veterinary Practices As Many Hit Bottom

LAKE OSWEGO, OR, December 09, 2008 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Silkin Management Group http://www.silkinmanagementgroup.com), a 25 year old health care practice management firm, rescue Veterinary practices in the what is being called the worse economic times in 50 years with recommendations most faltering practices neglect. The great majority of veterinarians are held in the highest esteem by their clients, whether a small pet owner, equestrian professional or farmer, due to their medical expertise. Yet, many make poor business decisions and are losing their practice.READ»

Management styles - renewal needed

Management has never really been accepted as an exciting or thrilling activity. However, this is mostly due to ignorance. Only a small amount of people have direct experience of what’s involved in management, what managers are like, ...READ»

Business strategy and opportunity in dark times

In these days of pessimism and gloom, anybody can be forgiven for looking back nostalgically at the days when venture capitalists, for example, would sound a far more bullish note, ringing the bell for opportunity. For example: ...READ»

What should managers do when things go wrong?

Whatever the causes, there can be no doubting the result. The world is going through a period of acute economic anxiety and falling economic performance, both in large matters and small. In a sense, everybody has been here before. ...READ»

The lessons of Total Quality Management

Every manager knows that appearances should match the realities of the business or other organisation. What do users of your products and services think about these offerings and the experience of using them, and, how do these real ...READ»

Management by numbers

Plans, projections, decisions, debates, results – all these and many more depend on the provision and calculation of outcomes (forecast or achieved) measured in monetary terms. However, very few managers have paused to consider ...READ»

Management by example

Whether it’s finance, marketing, production, strategy, human relations or any other discipline, managers accept that the subject is teachable and that, once taught, the lessons will bring value to managers and the organisations ...READ»

Measuring management and leadership

Today’s super-bosses get salaries, of course, and very large ones at that; but they also receive ‘performance-related’ bonuses of great size, plus even more magnificent stock options and other wonderful rewards, from massive ...READ»

The management style of making it happen

Sir John Harvey-Jones, who died back in January at the age of 83, was a company man, a hired hand whose promotion to chairman of ICI was the final stage in his rise through the executive ranks. Thanks to inertia, ICI, as a ...READ»

Corporate culture and incentives

How, why and by how much should people be incentivised? Are incentives and motivation identical partners? Why do gross errors occur, and how do you guard against them? And how exactly do you use error as a springboard for ...READ»

The Role of the CEO in Business Management

A familiar gibe against the over-managed company is that it has ‘too many chiefs, and not enough Indians’. Whether or not that’s generally true, management certainly has more Chiefs than it did. There’s the Chief ...READ»

Management by leadership

Management has always been hard to define. Gurus and managers both differ about whether the activity is art or science or craft or discipline – or if it is inspirational or mathematical. The source of this uncertainty is the fact ...READ»