management Archives

The Job Most Entrepreneurs Don’t Think to Outsource

You might already outsource your web design, your call center, your cleaning services and many other tasks. But when it comes to the C-Suite, entrepreneurs don't often consider the option to outsource their chief operating officer. The...

byJustin E. Crawford

October 17, 2016

15 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Skills

Every startup team needs a fearless leader to help them grow and to push them to be the best that they can be. But starting a business and heading a group of people are two tasks...

byInstant Offices

September 18, 2016

A Startup’s Guide to Business Risk Management

While it’s easy to focus on the positives of your growing business, what about mitigating risks for the future? Every company—whether it’s a fledgeling startup, a growing SME or a booming multinational—should be continually figuring...

byRebecca Poulter

August 20, 2016

Former Apple Consultant Ken Segall on the Power of Simplicity [Book Excerpt]

Is there anyone in business who doesn’t recognize the power of simplicity? It’s an inescapable fact of life that human beings are attracted to simplicity and turned off by complexity. When I started my life...

byKen Segall

August 16, 2016

How Successful Leaders Manage Conflicts

They say that a good manager is distinguished from the rest by the way he takes care of the ones who are positioned below him. This is true for the most part. However, there are...

byJoel Roberts

August 14, 2016

What You Need to Know to Close Your Business

You’ve invested a lot of effort, time, and money to start your small business and keep it running. So it’s understandably difficult to make the decision to close your business. But there are any number...

byBrette Sember

July 10, 2016

6 Ways To Improve Management and Leadership In Your Business

While it’s important to focus on growth in any business, that can only be achieved with the right management and leadership. These tips can help you improve those areas of your business, so you can...

byAnita Ginsburg

June 30, 2016

What to Know About Hiring and Working with Millennials [Infographic]

Those that belong to Generation Y (born from the early 1980s to the early 2000s), or what we fondly call "millennials," are expected to form 46 percent of the global workforce by 2020. A recent analysis...

byAngela McDonald

June 29, 2016

6 Tips for Maintaining Positive Employee Engagement

Encouraging the best out of your workforce is a learning curve and one that should be met with as much enthusiasm and caution from both management and employees. With a reported 70 percent of employees...

byRebecca D'Souza

June 18, 2016

Company Finances: Understanding the Importance of Fiscal Management

Fiscal management is essential to the long-term success of any business. No matter how well your business performs in providing services or exceeding sales expectations, poor financial management can wipe out all of your hard...

byLizzie Weakley

April 27, 2016

How To Network Your Ass Off Without Feeling Like An Idiot

How To Navigate A Networking Event – The Ins, Outs & What To Dos I’ve been to several networking events recently, and it occurs to me that there are a lot of people out there...

byDawn Leaks

May 20, 2015

Offline Networking: An Essential for Entrepreneurs

5 Reasons Offline Networking is Essential for Entrepreneurs Professional networking has always been an important mainstay of business conduct. It helps us meet the people who can get us jobs, it gives us sales opportunities...

byDrew Hendricks

March 25, 2015

5 Networking Tips for New Entrepreneurs

Networking: An entrepreneur's lifeline Networking is crucial for anyone's career, but when you're new to the entrepreneurial scene, or just launching a startup, a well-developed network can help your business thrive. Finding a way to network...

by Jayneberinger64

March 4, 2015

7 Resolution Ideas For Every Entrepreneur

It's not too late to make resolutions - get some ideas here! It’s the start of the New Year and everyone has resolutions on their mind, trying to figure out what changes can be made...

byGerri Lazarre

January 23, 2015

Don’t set performance goals alone

Which of these common techniques is most effective for setting annual employee goals? 1. Manager asks employee to write his/her own goals and rubber stamps them. 2. Manager writes the goals and hands them to...

byDan McCarthy

October 3, 2014

Flexing your leadership style

Prominent executive coaches and leadership strategists Jane Hyun and Audrey S. Lee offer lessons on the vital skill of “Flexing” — the art of flexing your personal leadership style to more effectively lead people who are...

byMelissa Fisher

September 29, 2014

10 Tips For Motivating Your Employees

Employee turnover is one of the most expensive costs your company will have. Not only is it expensive to replace a departing employee, but it also affects the morale of the entire team. Here are...

byZeke Camusio

December 22, 2010

And…We’re Back

I know, it's been a while since I've blogged. I fell of the wagon and was busy consulting. At the beginning of each year, I’ve taken to reading Drucker’s Managing One’s Self; I did a...

byChristine Haskell

February 13, 2009

Book Shelf: Peter Drucker’s Managing Oneself

So I was on a return flight from West Hartford coming back from a family event and wondering the Hartford terminal for something to read. I came across the Harvard Business Classics series--clever way for them...

byChristine Haskell

September 23, 2008

Aim for 98 percent perfection

Time and money wasted is time and money gone forever. And a waste of time and money means some other positive thing that could have happened, didn’t. Apply a “Good Enough” rule to the Working...

bySam Carpenter

August 6, 2008