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Category Archives: People
Time Management – is now the time to get beyond this distracting oxymoron?
Time management is an extremely popular topic. Is this productive? A Google search for the phrase “time management” returns the droll news that there are more than 14,900,000 responses. Amazon lists 448 books with ‘time management” in the title or … Continue reading
Podcast – Early Intervention Is Key to Employee Success
Early intervention for new hires and promotions is key to success.
Podcast – How to Hire a Part-time CFO
Five steps to hiring a part-time CFO to simplify your life.
Posted in Financial Management, People, Podcasts
Tagged accounting systems, actionable, balance sheet, Cash, cash flow analysis, cash flow projection, cash flow statement, CFO, chief financial officer, delegation, Financial Management, financial statements, high performance organization, keeping score, management infrastructure, performance, results
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How to Hire a Part-time CFO
In my earlier article, Seven Reasons to Add a CFO – part-time or full – to Your Team, I discussed the reasons to add a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to your team. If you have not read that article you … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Management, People
Tagged accounting systems, actionable, balance sheet, Cash, cash flow analysis, cash flow projection, cash flow statement, CFO, chief financial officer, delegation, Financial Management, financial statements, high performance organization, keeping score, management infrastructure, performance, results
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Seven Reasons to Add a CFO – part-time or full – to Your Team
Many small businesses operate with only a bookkeeper and CPA to manage the finances. The owner or GM fills in, or at least think that they fill in, for all of the duties of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). As … Continue reading
Successful Intelligence – R. J. Sternberg – book review
Successful Intelligence: how practical and creative intelligence determine success in life by Robert J. Sternberg (NY: Penguin Putnam, 1997) (download a PDF of this book review whitepaper) Throughout my life I have been interested in intelligence, mine and that of … Continue reading
Podcast – Don’t Bad Mouth The Competition
More reasons why the old maxim is still true: “Don’t Bad Mouth The Competition”.
Posted in Marketing/Sales, People, Podcasts
Tagged bad mouth, competitor, crutch, customers, denigrate, gaps, maxim, personnel, trust
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Don’t Bad Mouth The Competition
The other day I met a business person and was chatting about the marketplace for his business – plumbing actually – and found myself listening to a small scale tirade attacking several of his competitors for what he felt to … Continue reading
Podcast: Managing for Weakness – a mis-management myth
Shifting your focus from weaknesses to strengths is a powerful step towards being personally more effective and building a more effective organization.
Posted in Change Management, People, Podcasts
Tagged Debunked, Drucker, employee, management, mentoring, People, personnel, Podcasts, Podcasts, responsibility, results, strength, supervision, weakness
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Managing for Weakness – a mis-management myth
The Myth Managers spend a lot of time worrying about the weaknesses of their employees. “If only I could get her to perform better we would have a really great team.” And countless more along that line. Companies have performance … Continue reading
Posted in Change Management, People
Tagged Debunked, Drucker, employee, management, mentoring, People, personnel, responsibility, results, strength, supervision, weakness
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