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1998 Features

12/22/98 - My Annual Letter to Santa
My annual wish list to Santa for the things to improve businesses.

12/15/98 - Managing the Holiday Season (Part 2)
What can you do to ensure that all your employees - and your company - make it through the holidays safely.

12/01/98 - Managing the Holiday Season (Part1)
Tips for surviving the craze of the year end holiday season.

11/15/98 - What's the Competition Doing?
Resources and advice for ethically gathering business intelligence about your competitors.

11/01/98 - Professional vs. Entrepreneurial Management
When, or should you, turn your company over to a professional manager.

10/15/98 - Where are you going?
Finding and setting your goals will make you a better manager.

10/01/98 - Employee Benefits as a Management Tool
How to keep your best employees and how to keep them happy.

09/01/98 - Worker Depression Can Cost You Money
How to avoid some costs associated with lost productivity, reduced quality, and on-the-job accidents.

08/15/98 - Managing the Talent Pool
The most essential element of success in your industry is the small pool of really talented people. Here's how to make THEM find YOU

08/01/98 - Buzzword Bingo
The latest business game and how it can improve your skill as a manager.

07/15/98 - Can You Trust Your Employees?
How great is your company's exposure to employee theft and misconduct?

05/28/98 - The Latest Management Trend and Why it is Dangerous to Your Organization.
What is brightsizing and what can you do to protect your organization from it?

04/30/98 - What Professional Baseball Can Teach Professional Managers
We examine the similarities between coaching a successful baseball team and managing a successful business.

04/14/98 - Compensation Planning for your Employees
What you need to know, and where to find Internet help, to set and maintain appropriate salary levels for your employees.

03/31/98 - What's In It For Me?
A "guided tour" to the variety of Management resources available on this site to help you be a better manager.

03/24/98 - Why Annual Performance Reviews Are A Waste Of Time
Learn what the problems and solutions are, and take the practice test.

03/17/98 - Developing an Internet Strategy For Your Company (Part 4)
How an extranet can save you money and make your company more agile

03/10/98 - Developing an Internet Strategy For Your Company (Part 3)
How do you create an intranet for your organization? And how does it help you make your organization better and more profitable?

03/03/98 - Developing an Internet Strategy For Your Company (Part 2)
Developing your own Internet Strategy to determine whether you need to move to the Internet and when to make that move.

02/24/98 - Developing an Internet Strategy For Your Company (Part 1)
Do you really need to move your company to the Internet? And just how do you do it?

02/17/98 - Organization Charts as a Management Tool
Organization Charts can be effectively used as a Management Tool, not just a passive reflection of the way an organization has evolved.

02/10/98 - Sleeping With The Boss
President Clinton's reported affair with an intern has again brought the issue of fraternization into sharp focus.

02/02/98 - Groundhog Day Tradition - With A Future
Colin Powell's new war to help our youth - and our businesses.

01/27/98 - Being a Mentor
In this third installment we review the factors involved in being a mentor, "Can you share your experience to help someone else?"

01/20/98 - How to Find a Mentor
In Part 2 of the series we concentrate on ways to find a mentor and to approach them.

01/13/98 - Mentors
What is a mentor; why should you have one; where do you find one? And how can you become one?

01/06/98 - Work-related injuries cost US more than cancer
What can you do to prevent them? What does the government require? Here is some help.

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