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Policies and Procedures Used as Management Key
By: Chris Anderson
Managers know the difficulty of getting people to do the right things the
right way. And employees need their expertise and understanding of the way
things should be done. But how do you get it across so it actually sticks?
The answer is well-defined poli
Don't Think Time Management - Think Conflict Resolution
By: Cathy Goodwin
David began, "I have a major time management problem. As an editor, I
often get two clients calling with assignments. They call around ten AM
and both want their projects completed by mid-afternoon. Then a third
client calls around lunchtime with a crisi
Why Six Sigma?
By: admin
Anyone looking at a table of probabilities for the normal (Gaussian)
distribution will wonder what six-sigma has to do with 3.4 defects per
million things. Only one billionth of the normal curve lies beyond six
standard deviations, or two billionths if yo
What is Six Sigma
By: admin
Six Sigma is a quality management program to achieve "six sigma" levels of
quality. It was pioneered by Motorola in the mid-1980s and has spread to
many other manufacturing companies. It continues to spread to service
companies as well. In 2000, Fort Wa
Five Leadership Secrets for Challenging Times
By: Ed Sykes
We consistently face new and ever growing challenges in the workplace such
as reorganizing, downsizing, and “left out sizing.” We are faced with the
question, “How do we lead in this storm of change?” It may seem difficult
at times and the decisions we ma
Development Procedures for Building Effective Management Systems: Phase
III
By: Chris Anderson
Part three in a five part series. Before beginning our discussion of The
Development Phase, let’s recap. In Phase I (Discovery) we learned how your
organization specifies the project mission, objectives and effectiveness
criteria. Phase II (Planning) enta
Planning Procedures for Building Effective Management Systems: Phase II
By: Chris Anderson
Part two in a five part series. Have you ever had the opportunity to watch
the construction of a large building? The daily progress from foundation
to top floor is truly amazing, and if you’re like me, you wonder “how does
it all happen?” The answer: it t
Discovery Procedures for Building Effective Management Systems
By: Chris Anderson
Part One in a Five Part Series Imagine what a professional football team
would be like without a regimen of practice drills? Now take away their
playbook and player statistics. What you have in this extreme scenario are
highly talented.
Building A Reputation in the Executive Interim Management Field
By: David Jones
As any executive interim manager knows, when you're operating your own
business, “reputation is everything” and an executive interim manager is
only as good as their last assignments and the references and referrals
that can be obtained from them.
Ingredients For Success
By: Ophelia Sanchez
Management by Objectives, strategic planning, quality, teams,
re-engineering. Passing management fads? Consultants, more consultants.
Training and more training. Businesses are littered by the corpses of all
these attempts at finding the way to become bet
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