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Remember your college days, scouring the course catalog for a class to fill an open elective spot? Just when you thought you found the right course, you saw that dreaded [...]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The authors share studied observations on leadership and management from their combined 60 + years in local government administration. All managers want to be great leaders--and they need [...]

In project management, we've heard it before in some form or another. 'Don't reinvent the wheel.' 'Let's not reinvent the wheel.' 'We're not reinventing the wheel here, are we?' It [...]

Blake Harrison and Alex Rappaport were working the floor at the International Reading Conference in Toronto. It was spring 2007, and the two founders of the study-guide publisher Flocabulary had [...]

In 1981, Essie Weingarten boarded a plane bound for Las Vegas with a suitcase full of nail polish and a plan. She wanted to sell her chip-resistant line of varnish--in [...]

Brad Bachtellle of Bachtelle & Associates addressed the issue of the declining profitability in the vending industry and said that it needs to be reversed in order for the industry to survive. Increasing operating costs in the industry has led to 78% decline in profitability. Other details about the issue are presented.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Perilous Journeys in the Undocumented World Melvin, a developer and investor who owned a modest real estate portfolio with his partner, Susan, asked his attorney, Maggie, to form [...]

'Training in how to do a budget wasn't part of the seminary curriculum,' said the Rev. Stephen Gemme, who became a pastor only 14 months after his ordination in 2002 [...]

Fear can be a motivator, but it can also lead you into bad decisions, particularly in times like these. I have no doubt that a lot of business owners have [...]

Barely a week passes without news of another big name feeling the heat from the watchdogs. What to do if it's you in their spotlight? Jeremy hazlehurst investigates. You've got [...]

In theory, managers should have higher emotional intelligence (EQ). First, they need to have social skills in order to move up the organisational ladder. Second, having people skills is the [...]

There's an old academics' joke that goes: why are economists jealous of physicists? Because the physicists have three laws to explain 99% of phenomena, while the economists have 99 laws [...]

We've been running all our lives. In fact, that's how we met Neither of us could find anything we wanted to run in. The clothes that were technical, which ran [...]

Try this experiment. For six months, ban the use of the word 'culture' in your organisation (The only exception is for pharmaceutical companies, which may have cultures so long as [...]

I started Gems TV in 2004 but I sold out two years later. I had gone into partnership with our biggest supplier, which was based in Thailand, and we fell [...]

Q: My husband set up his own digital design firm nearly two years ago. The business is doing well: he has a decent client list and expects to turn a [...]

OUR BEST ... It was also a good decision to keep the company private. We get enquiries every day from VCs and big retail groups but we always decline. We're [...]

No, that's not a misprint. There are often compelling reasons for not fixing things, even when they are well and truly broken. For starters, things tend to break when they [...]

What is it? Management by walking around passes the Ronseal test ('... does exactly what it says on the tin'), rare in the world of business jargon. But it's not [...]

MY BEST ... Maintaining my personal ethics and integrity. Both qualities are vital if people are going to be able to work together in life, but they tend to disappear [...]

MY BEST ... Another good decision I made was to employ good people. I've always gone out to get the best people I can around me; twice, I've even employed [...]

Seize on a single incident as a marker: a last-straw moment, a screaming alarm bell. Q: I work for a large professional services firm. Since May, I've lost three members [...]

OUR BEST ... Juliette: Working together was our best decision. We've been together since we were 13, got married at 19, and it's the icing on the cake. At 15, [...]

Delegate for the right reasons. Don't simply offload the tasks you don't like; instead, pick ones that others may be better qualified to undertake or that are the least productive [...]

As the famous Monty Python question goes, 'What have the Romans ever done for us?' Well, aside from sanitation, roads and aqueducts, it seems we might do well to follow [...]

MY BEST... It's my best decision because, right from the start, absolutely everything was crystal-clear. I didn't mismanage their expectations, and vice versa. We all knew what was expected of [...]

Say it straight. For the survivors of a restructure, one question matters: what happens next? When sharing details of the new way, be candid ('sadly, things can't be as they [...]

You're fighting to survive in the recession, but starting to wonder if the end is in sight for your business. What next? Look ahead. Make sure you're aware of the [...]

In association with Towers Perrin, MT invited seven business wiseheads to a round table debate on the nature of our economic predicament and how it should be confronted. Matthew Gwyther: [...]

Over the past 18 months, much time, effort and money has gone into attempts by both politicians and businesses to resolve the financial crisis. The benefits have been marginal, at [...]

Ian Smith, a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute, warns that the recession will test the quality of UK management. When writing a commentary on a recession, one of the [...]