How to Make Fridays Productive Again

Fridays are typically the most unproductive day of the week, with the exception of the occasional Monday doldrums. By Friday everybody is ready for the weekend and it's often just difficult to get into the work rhythm of the first four days of the week. But there is a way to get more done Monday through Thursday by doing something a little different on Friday, and making Fridays a bit more productive than usual.

World-Clock - What Time Is In Japan Now?

Running international business is a hard task as you might be here, and your partners might be thousand miles away. I'm sure before calling someone, you spend few minutes trying to calculate what time is now there?! I guess you need some good world-clock.

Managing Between The Process and The Output

One of the main roles of a judge in a trial is to defend the (fair) process. The judge has only a minor influence in the outcome (or result) of every trial... Business management is much more output driven. This is because people know WHAT they want and this knowledge is a bases to guide the management process. Specification of the output is the main ingredient in project management, but also for operational management. Yet it is not always clear how this output should look like. Then What (or How)?

Accountant To Leader

Accountants are amongst the most talented people either working for or providing services to businesses. They have huge potential yet so often never fully exploit it. Why is that?

Do-It-Yourself Workforce Development - When to Ask for Help

We have become a do-it-yourself obsessed society. You can't surf past more than five channels on any cable TV provider without some expert showing us how easy it is to remodel our home, landscape our backyard, or prepare a gourmet meal in less than 30 minutes. Many organizations try to raise that concept from the personal level to their workforce and discover it may not be as easy as it sounds. This article will help you decide when to ask for help and when to do-it-yourself.

Being Businesslike With Business Debt Collection

One of the big mistakes many businesses make when collecting business debts is not having a clear policy and timetable for dealing with debtors

Commercial Debt Collection

Commercial debt collection is required when a company fails to pay for goods or services supplied on credit.

Debt Collection Tips

So there you are facing bad debt and getting angrier

When Good Companies Go Bad, Part 2 - Fear

The effects of fear when a company's performance declines and the cascade effect it can have.

Getting Your Price Right - Is Your Business Really Profitable?

How do you know you are asking the right price for your products or services? Is it enough to know that you make a profit at the end of the day? Does your business pay for your retirement? Is your business competitive? This article will give you an answer to these questions.

Innovation - The Bright Light in the Night Sky

When innovation shifts the mindset of an industry, those companies designed to construct and distribute the older model are typically averse to adopting the new shift. This aversion allows new players into the industry often times leaving the industry leader under the old mindset, lost, scrambling, or simply, trying to figure out what happened!

Viral Video - The Accidental Fountain of Brand Placement

Viral video has created an entirely new marketing strategy for a different generation. Just like in conventional advertising you are not always sure what campaign is going to catch fire, but unlike multi-million dollar advertising campaigns viral video can be low cost, and it only gets distributed if it is good (or egregiously bad) because the avenue of distribution doesn't rely on time slots, channels and packaging for national consumption, rather it spreads virally - passed along from one viewer to another through emails, blogs, website links and copy cats (viral video of viral video!)

Are You Stunting Your Business Growth? (Second Article of 2)

Find out who to introduce into your business to boost your profits.

Change Management - 4 Steps to Effectively Manage Change

The most important ingredients to successfully manage change in an organization are: executive sponsorship, effective communication, and accountability. All of these are direct responsibilities of management. Thus, unsuccessful change initiatives are most frequently caused by poor management performance.