How to Cut Costs and Conserve Cash
Wednesday May 26, 2010Has your budget been slashed? Join the club. Now it’s up to you to find ways to do more with less.
Calculator: How Much Is Employee Turnover Costing You?
By Ira Wolfe Tuesday May 25, 2010Employee turnover is inevitable. But it’s stupid decisions leading to employee turnover that is eating up the profits of businesses.
How Your IT Decisions Affect Employee Morale
By Kevin Beaver Tuesday May 25, 2010How happy are your employees? Have you thought about how morale can affect IT and vice versa? There are plenty of tie-ins. A recent Atlanta Business Chronicle column talks about how happy employees “tend to be more cooperative, less self-centered, and more willing to help other people."
Manager's Dilemma: When Employees Say, 'Not My Job'
By Jay Forte Monday May 24, 2010In this week's Manager's Dilemma, you are the CEO of a plumbing-supply business, One morning you walk through the parking lot, picking up cups and other trash while your employees inside watch. No customers have arrived yet. “It gets pretty messy out there,” one of the employees says to you as you enter the store. You stop, unable to control your anger. "If you see trash out there, why don’t you pick it up?," you demand. "How can you let the parking lot look like this? And moreover, why do I have to do this?”
Beware Predictions of the Hottest Jobs
By Ira Wolfe Monday May 24, 2010In 1999, 70% of workers considered it a good time to be looking for a quality job. Only 12% believed that in 2009. Similarly, 64% were confident in 1999 that they could find a new job as good as or better than their previous job, while only 20% believe that today.
Today in Marketing: How Not to Alienate Your Twitter Followers
By Eric Reyes Monday May 24, 2010Common Twitter mistakes. Are you using Twitter, but are having trouble attracting and keeping followers? Lisa Barone at Small Business Trends suggests 20 reasons your fans are leaving. It could be you're a self-promoter, putting way too much “me” into your Tweets. Perhaps you're not professional enough; don't mention how drunk you got the night before on your business Twitter account.
Why Hasty Tech Buys Invite More Problems
By Kevin Beaver Monday May 24, 2010Lou Gerstner once said "If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up." Information technology is no different. You can't just go buy some computers and software and expect to hit the ground running. Developing a solid IT infrastructure — even for the smallest of businesses — takes time. It also takes good people, good vendor relationships and a good amount of capital.
Manager's Dilemma Solved: What Facebook Bans Say About Employee Trust
By Jay Forte Monday May 24, 2010Last week I presented a question every manager needs to consider: to what extent should you get employees involved in your company's social media marketing efforts? By allowing — even encouraging them — to use Facebook at work, are you just inviting a host of problems?
The Top 10 Reasons Why Hiring Fails
By Barry Deutsch Friday May 21, 2010Before we wrote our book, "You're NOT the Person I Hired," we commissioned a study within the Vistage Community to identify the most common mistakes and errors executives made in hiring.
Today in Your Career: Why Google Holds the Key to Your Future
By Eric Reyes Friday May 21, 2010You are being Googled. Your career success is all riding on Google, argues Susan Guarneri at Career Assessment Goddess. A recent survey sponsored by Microsoft said that 79% of hiring managers Google the names of candidates before they even offer an interview. Here's the really surprising find: 70% of hiring managers actually rejected candidates based on what they found online.