Posts Tagged ‘Management’

Are you Satisfied?

In September of 1960, J.F. Kennedy engaged Richard Nixon in the first presidential candidates’ debate. Kennedy’s opening statement in that debate has now become the famous “I am not satisfied” speech. What Kennedy’s team rightly strategized was that in any competitive environment, political or businesses, sustainable success starts with focusing on your own house. You will not win the race by focusing on the competition. There are a number of reasons for this... Continue reading

June 16 2009 | By Clemens | Tagged: branding, business, coaching, competition, customer, entreprenuership, leadership, Management, marketing, success | 6 comments»

Why A Good Web Site Matters To Your Business

For most businesses, a web site is one of the most important investments you can make. Entrepreneurs are either overspending or underspending on their web sites, and many have no idea what they're doing or why. So today I'm going to talk about why a good, solid web site really matters to your business, and in the next two weeks, I'll follow up with articles on the core components your… Continue reading

June 9 2009 | By Susan | Tagged: entrepreneur, Management, small_business, Technology, web_site | 26 comments»

Starting A Business in A Challenging Economic Climate, Part 2 (Limiting Risk)

In Part 1 of this series, I talked about why now is a good time to start a business. But without Part 2, Limiting Your Risk, you may be setting yourself up for problems. Now is a great time to start a business, but part of starting a business in this kind of economy is playing it smart. How You Can Limit Your Risk: When you start a business in challenging… Continue reading

April 16 2009 | By Susan | Tagged: business, entrepreneur, Management, recession, small business, startup | 1 comment»

Starting A Business in A Challenging Economic Climate, Part One (Why Now?)

Starting a business during a recession seems counterintuitive, doesn’t it? If the economy isn’t doing well and people aren’t spending money, doesn’t that mean a new business is likely to fail? Actually, the answer may surprise you. Fears about starting a business in this economy are common and understandable. But in this two-part series, I’m going to show you why this economic climate is a fantastic time to start a business… Continue reading

April 10 2009 | By Susan | Tagged: entrepreneur, Management, small business, startup | 9 comments»

Shattering A Few Myths About Copyright

It is unfortunate that people don’t know as much as they should about intellectual property rights. One day recently I briefly checked in to Twitter to see a discussion on the matter — a discussion that was propagating misinformed ideas. You might see copyright as a topic that’s only relevant to artists and engineers, but the truth is that this isn’t called the information age for nothing and intellectual property… Continue reading

April 6 2009 | By Joel | Tagged: business, copyright, law, Management, rights | 8 comments»

How to Fire Someone

By trade and training I am a writer and editor. I never had any education in managing people until I received the best kind: being thrust into the middle of it and being forced to learn without any preformed conceptions from some old tradition of management that academics espouse. I'm not belittling education. It would have been helpful, and trained managers are no doubt much better than me… Continue reading

March 27 2009 | By Joel | Tagged: employees, firing, layoffs, Management, staff | 10 comments»

8 Excellent Web Resources for Startups

In my role as editor at FreelanceSwitch, something I see a lot is freelancers interested in taking their business a step further – trading in their status as a freelancer and sole trader in order to start a company or firm in their profession. I also personally know of a lot of people who have never been freelancers, but were just recently professionals in the corporate world and are… Continue reading

March 11 2009 | By Joel | Tagged: business, entrepreneur, Management, startup | 6 comments»

If your business disappeared tomorrow…

If your business disappeared tomorrow, would anybody miss you? We all want to survive and we all want to thrive. But how cool would it be if your customers needed you to survive even more than you did? What would you be prepared to do to be that irreplaceable? Continue reading

March 9 2009 | By Clemens | Tagged: business, entreprenuership, leadership, Management, marketing | 8 comments»

3 Secrets to Moving Personal Task Management to the Business Level

You've got managing your tasks down to a science. Your dry cleaning is always picked up on time, your 'honey-do' list at home has nothing left on it, and you've even gotten through all the assignments your supervisor has handed off to you. You are a to-do list rock star. But then something changes: maybe you've started your own business. Perhaps you've been bumped up into management. Suddenly you have to… Continue reading

February 17 2009 | By Thursday | Tagged: Management, task, todo-list | 9 comments»

Toward a New Vision of Productivity, Part 9: The Trouble with People

This is the ninth part of a 12-part series I am posting from the end of December and into 2009, examining the current understanding of productivity and where the concept might be heading in the future. I invite Lifehack’s readers to

February 3 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: attention, inputs, Management, people, social, social-productivity | 10 comments»

Darth Vader’s “Management” Secrets

Today we offer you a special treat by a very special guest contributor. Darth Vader is a modern-day success story, having risen from humble orphan roots to the second-highest position in the largest corporate body this galaxy has ever seen. Although better-known for his visionary work in the realm of law enforcement, he is also responsible for the day-to-day operation of many of his

January 2 2009 | By Art | Tagged: darth-vader, humor, Management, star-wars | 33 comments»

Do you need an MBA to start a successful startup?

I have written an article about this question at Stepcase blog. It's an interesting questions to think about: Wait, do you need an MBA to learn what you need to operate a startup? Maybe not. Starting up a venture is totally different from managing one. To start up, you need your time to work on the idea. More importantly, you need skills to execute it. Now the execution is not… Continue reading

July 7 2008 | By Leon | Tagged: Management, mba, startup | 7 comments»

Seven Useful Lessons You Can Learn from a Bad Boss

Why you can trust poor leaders to be sound teachers

Macho, insensitive bosses share certain characteristics. Their behavior is arrogant, quick-tempered and controlling. Their motives are typically selfish and manipulative. They show little concern for others and few signs of understanding why others don't trust them. Most of all, they are quite unaware of their failings and the impact they have on their subordinates. No only do they see no… Continue reading

May 23 2008 | By Adrian | Tagged: leadership, learning, Management, personal-development | 6 comments»

The Lifehack Productivity Bookshelf

I just received my copy of Lifehack contributor Pamela Skilling's new book Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams. Pamela's book is a guide for people fed up with the corporate lifestyle -- the lack of creative expression, the lack of spiritual reward, and ultimately the lack of control over the conditions of your own employment -- who are looking… Continue reading

May 19 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: book, leadership, learning, Management, organization, Productivity, reading, thinking | 2 comments»

What does it take to be “green” in the workplace?

Recycling and energy-efficient lighting don't even begin to do it for me. They only touch on a few of the physical areas of impact our organizations have on the planet and the creatures that live on it. I'm not saying they don't count at all, just that they don't count for much in the great scheme of things: massaging symptoms rather than tackling causes. What I believe it takes to… Continue reading

April 10 2008 | By Adrian | Tagged: environment, green, Management, Resource, respect | 3 comments»

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