The Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden's compound was the ultimate lesson in project management. Here are four relevant lessons in planning, executing, and shifting on a dime. READ»
As a successful business leader, you plan for the future of your business. Are you showing the same leadership and smart preparation in your personal life? READ»
You need to find a way to deal effectively with the distractions, the interruptions, and the fact that there is just way too much on your plate. Fortunately, there is a very simple strategy that has been proven to do the trick.READ»
People are generally pretty lousy when it comes to estimating the time they will need to complete a task. Psychologists refer to this as the planning fallacy, and it's an all too common problem--one with the very real potential to screw up our plans and keep us from reaching our goals.READ»
Are many of the social media programs in play yielding tangible results? No. Are they designed to impact the bottom line or are they tied to meaningful business outcomes? No. The truth is that you can’t fail in anything if success is never defined.READ»
The publishing industry’s up to its bifocals in how-to manuals on life’s various milestones: birth, college, marriage. But the biggest milestone of all barely rates a paperback in the discount bin. We speak, of course, of ...READ»
Small business management is a delicate balance of planning, action and intrinsic perspective. With minimal resources, time and money must be spent wisely. Business fundamentals must be incorporated at all times. READ»
Recently, Ning announced that they were laying off 70 staff and no longer going to provide their social networking platform as a freebie. Ning’s COO Jason Rosenthal said...READ»
Linkedin unveiled an interesting new capability - Company Follow. This new feature can provide some valuable new help for job seekers. Let's look at what's included in the Company Follow feature and how job seekers can use it ... READ»
If you find yourself short on talent necessary to grow your business consider these benefits of augmenting your existing staff with temporary marketers...
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The performance of an entire team working on a sales marketing program, from supervisors to a marketing assistant manager, relies on the ability for the team to connect with each other, as well as the potential customers they are ...READ»
I met Mr. Sears at his law firm in Irvine, Calfiornia. He helped me set up a family trust. We spent a few hours on estate planning. He explainned to me about the life insurance trust which I needed. He said a ...READ»
Reason #1 why your marketing doesn’t work – You are using Big Business marketing rules. If you’re playing by their rules, you’re going to lose just about every time.READ»
Photo albums never include pictures of tomorrow. We can not project onto the pages either “who we are” or “who we want to become”. Only, “who we were” at least at that moment captured in the photo. READ»
Like it or not, it’s past time for all of us in Corporate America to move forward and map out a game plan for 2010. I suspect that this will be a welcome, albeit difficult, task for many, given the economic challenges that occurred ...READ»
Execution is everything; it separates those with lofty ideas from those who end up winning the game…plan & dream, then turn that key or you've accomplished nothing.
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Apple isn't the only company with some creative plans for smartphone UIs: Nokia just revealed how it thinks we might control our phones in the future. There'll be a lot of waving them in the air.
Though Nokia was horribly late to ...READ»
When regional planners and architects get together, you might think the pragmatic would take a back seat to the fanciful and the theoretical. Guess again!READ»
