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Branding: What Not to Do
Here's a little story about what not to do as you carve out a name for yourself in the world of internet business.Don't use a miscellaneous email account as your primary web contact address.Some silly copywriter did this when she thought she was goin

reads USATODAY (http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2006-04-14-ceos-waiter-rule_x.htm). It is a story about the CEO in his earli

An Educational Process for Change and Improvement Efforts
"Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject." — Thomas Mann, early 20th century German novelist and essayistOnce a management team has established a change and improvement plan, there are many ways to help everyone in the organization un

Exceptions to the rule...(these) are in fact emphasising the same rule. But what about the exceptions themselves?

Exceptions and incidents require more than a common response. When business is "as usual," it is normally not difficult to manage. But now the exception. That is when you can make a difference. That is where you can show who you are, and what the value is of your approach.

The anecdote published recently in USATODAY serves as a fine example.

“Office Depot CEO Steve Odland remembers like it was yesterday working in an upscale French restaurant in Denver,” reads USATODAY (http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2006-04-14-ceos-waiter-rule_x.htm). It is a story about the CEO in his earlie

Why Distance Counseling Works
Isn’t it true that when admission officers evaluate student applications they really don’t know the student? Other than the interview that some colleges offer, acceptance decisions are based on a written document, the application. For students to portray themselves in the best

uire more than a common response. When business is "as usual," it is normally not difficult to manage. But now the exception. That is when you can make a difference. That is where you can show who you are, and what the value is of your approach.

The anecdote published recently in USATODAY serves as a fine example.

Revealing the Roots: The Process of Building Brand
How is branding different than marketing?Branding is not so much different from marketing as it is an element of marketing. We think of marketing as a tree; the brand is the roots, holding the tree in place and providing constant energy. The leaves are the tactics, reach

ke a difference. That is where you can show who you are, and what the value is of your approach.

The anecdote published recently in USATODAY serves as a fine example.

Recruiting Is Like Opening a Box of Chocolates
You never know what you’ll get and sometimes what you get is not what you expected. But you always start the same way… First, you screen out the ones that are obviously not good. Second, you look at the remaining ones and you pick a few. Third, you give it a try.Ther

erves as a fine example.

Position Descriptions: 'Must Walk On Water; But Walking On Air, Preferred'
Dear Santa,I want you to bring me absolutely, positively EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD for Christmas, but EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE would be better. Before proceeding, please demonstrate prior mastery of these skills.Sincerely,Greta Human Resources Specialist reads USATODAY (http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2006-04-14-ceos-waiter-rule_x.htm). It is a story about the CEO in his earlier days working in a restaurant and the incident where he tumbled a sorbet “onto the expensive white gown of an obviously rich and important woman.”

Thirty years later “Odland can't get the stain out of his mind, nor the woman's kind reaction. She was startled, regained composure and, in a reassuring voice, told the teenage Odland, "It's OK. It wasn't your fault." When she left the restaurant, she also left the future Fortune 500 CEO with a life lesson: You can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she treats the waiter.

The newsstory in USATODAY explains that th

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Unemployment Blues: Life Changing Events

If we are unlucky enough to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, we experience a personal tsunami - a misfortune of devastating proportions that sweeps away our routine lifestyle and forever changes the world we know.

Change Careers? Why Not?

Changing careers? Thinking about it? If not, why not? If you’re not happy where you are, then changing your career may be a wonderful move. However, change is a scary concept and shifting careers can be downright terrifying to consider. Relax, it doesn’t have to be.

Hey Chatterbox I'm Talking To You

It was once, many moons ago, back in the 90s, that the web was a place of simple content. Filled with stale information like directories and dictionaries, the world wide web was largely a home of facts and content. Over the last dozen or so years, the Web 2.0 Generation has changed all of that, bringing the Internet to be truly inter-operable and inter-active and certainly a lot more inter-esting. MySpace and YouTube gave new meaning to individuality, blogging gave everyone the ability to be their own author and publisher, and Google of course has allowed us to cruise through the Internet as if the whole web was created just for us.

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