At a "town hall" meeting with employees of St. Louis-based Insituform, a $600 million firm that repairs sewer, water and other underground piping systems, someone asked CEO Tom Rooney,...
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Here's what we should learn from the National Football League: It's time to sack the refs. That's right. Get rid of them. Say good-bye to the zebras. They've made pro football...
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I recently read an article that included information I thought a friend of mine would enjoy reading. So I sent him an email with the links to the article. His thank-you email to me said something that...
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by Jim Logan on August 29, 2006
I worked with a company that refused to refer to their customers as anything other than clients - a rarity for a high-tech manufacturer. Business suits were required for every customer encounter....
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Thanks to Anita Campbell (www.smallbiztrends.com) We can all benefit from good advice, and that makes advisory boards a hot topic for the savvy CEO and business owner. In recent years, advisory boards...
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Do you employ a method to determine the pulse of your business? How many times have you ask or heard someone say; "How did we get in this situation"? When you go to the doctor, he usually...
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Are teams and groups really different? One would think that by just calling a group a team, something different has happened. However, change does not occur unless the behavior of people changes. The...
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Most of us are probably aware that US auto companies are taking a severe beating in the marketplace and are slashing costs, ramping up innovation and shuffling management like deck chairs on the...
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As I have been working over the past few months with business owners and leaders I have been struck by how many of them are fanatical about growth but have no vision for what that means or what it...
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Some words like manager, supervisor, business executive, and group leader are sometimes used as synonymous and/or interchangeably to imply LEADERSHIP. But I think most of know that managers aren't...
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by Jim Logan on August 14, 2006
The way you've been doing things may not be the way you should do things...any more. People are people. And while people may not fundamentally change, the way they go about things does....
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Tip of the hat to Chief Executive Magazine for this article. When Richardson Industries shut down its 300-person furniture manufacturing operation in 2002, it was "the most painful thing I ever...
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The appointment was for 4pm. I arrive a bit early, punctuality is the courtesy of kings and all. And I was prepared to be kept waiting. I made a friendly wager with the staff that the Senator would...
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Major retailers have thousands of outlets and tens of thousands of products. Thousands of manufacturers depend on these retailers to purchase and distribute their product, millions are employed to...
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A critical element of being an effective leader is understanding or defining those TASKS that must be achieved to ensure that LEADERSHIP will occur. Then the next question to be asked is, "What...
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Today, my son sang our National anthem at the Indians vs. Tigers baseball game. No - not in the stands with 31,220 other fans, but right behind home-plate on the field. He wasn't alone. His rich...
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Truth, Justice and the American Way as Superman use to say. We have been on a mission as a nation for many years now of doing all we can to spread democracy while we ignore the dictatorships that are...
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Over the past year and a half Babson Colleges "The Center for Women's Leadership" has hosted more than sixteen fabulous women writers as a part of our very successful Author Series or as...
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By my good friend Ron Finklestein How does a successful person grow a successful company? It's such a provocative question that it prompted me to do some research. Despite the bad news we so often...
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Source: Microsoft Small Business Center Nearly 11 million privately held companies are now majority-owned (50% stake or greater) by women, according to the Center for Women Business Research, based in...
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Sorry, Jack!"... "Your Rules for Winning Don't Work Anymore. Even now, nearly five years after his retirement from GE, Jack Welch commands the spotlight. What came to be known as...
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A new report, Transforming the Toxic Chemical Economy profiles six companies crafting healthy strategies for using chemicals and materials in their products. This report does not address the totality...
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