Leadership : Page 40
February 29, 2016
Losing a creative mind, that key person with a vision that guides the whole company to move forward, is the greatest loss that can happen. But it's not time for panic, although private and public companies may react differently to this.
February 22, 2016
A new study of the tradition of haggling over new car prices shows that sales personnel who are trained to understand a customer\'s price sensitivity will strike a better deal for their employers.
February 18, 2016
Incentive compensation is a popular practice, with companies offering managers incentive pay in the hopes of improving company performance.
February 15, 2016
Some of use learned how to be productive during long years of work on different projects, in different companies. You don't have to go that path, we'll share some of our best practices with you.
February 11, 2016
Many believe a recognition such as \"employee of the month\" motivates others to strive toward greater achievement but new research suggests it can have the opposite results.
February 8, 2016
Every company has all sorts of managers on several levels. We already know the flat structure with less levels is more efficient but what would happen if we cut managers' structure and leave just employees?
February 4, 2016
The study reveals that teams across the land are not playing nicely after all. In fact, there are many occasions when we choose not to share information with colleagues if we think it can harm our own prospects of success.
February 1, 2016
There is a shortage of skills, employers say, and it is hard to find good workers who can jump in and bring great results right away. However, if you\'re not an athletic coach, you don\'t need workers that jump, you need people ready for a marathon.
January 28, 2016
New research from UT Dallas examined existing studies on return policies to quantify the policies' effect on consumers' purchase and return behavior.
January 25, 2016
There\'s no doubt, you have heard \"She was born for that job\" more than once in your lifetime. But, are business stars really persons born with some outstanding talent or there is a way to make them?
January 21, 2016
Many employees have played this numbers game: "Would you leave a job you love for a $1 million bump in annual salary? How about for $500,000? $100,000? $20,000?"
January 18, 2016
There will come time when you will lose some of your middle or even top managers. What a CEO can do to make a transition to a new manager as smooth as possible?