Business Management

The number of managers reporting directly to the CEO has doubled in the last decade, according to a survey of approximately 300 Fortune 500 companies. The growth is driven almost entirely by an [...]

Assessing your competitors serves four useful purposes: 1. It requires you to assess your existing market share and current business methods. We all operate in a competitive environment, and it’s [...]

To see why the majority of small businesses underperform, it may be helpful first to look at the factors at play when large companies underperform.In the 1980’s the Board of AWA, a large [...]

When you want to retain your best staff in a competitive job market, giving them a salary increase is likely to be the first thing that comes to mind. But before you decide on giving them that [...]

Cars I forget who said to an American audience in the early ’90s, “Look at the constantly increasing number of foreign cars appearing on our freeways! Why do you think that is? [...]

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. Mikhail Baryshnikov You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change [...]

Academic Toby Ord to give away half his life’s pay From news.com.au November 13, 2009 12:00am AN AUSTRALIAN academic at Oxford University has decided living like a student isn’t so [...]

If you don’t do it excellently don’t do it at all, because if it’s not excellent, it won’t be profitable or fun, and if you’re not in business for fun or profit, [...]

Before I show the list, the site from which I’ve lifted them (www.NicheGeek.com) has more than just The List by way of outside-the-square business ideas. So it would be a good site to spend [...]

Following on the theme set by Robert Fulghum’s “All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten”, I thought you’d enjoy the ProfiTune spin on “All I Really Need [...]