Management

Introduction Once reserved for the upper echelons of senior management, and often viewed as replacement planning should catastrophe strike, today’s succession planning is being redefined. The discipline has broadened in both breadth and scope to become a central component of board-level strategy. Succession planning focuses on managing risk and ensuring […]

Have you ever noticed how the question of “What is a strategy?” rarely comes up in the context of strategic planning? The word strategy is frequently used with the assumption that anyone involved in developing strategies knows exactly what a strategy is. It has been my experience that such an […]

1. Intuition is putting the experience and knowledge available with an individual in the subconscious part of the brain into day to day decision making. Forecasting is presenting a picture of the future. While presenting a picture of the future one is normally presented with a number of scenarios and […]

Business owners demand instant and low-cost solutions that are easy to upkeep and maximize return on their investment. Enterprise resource planning – ERP systems fit the bill perfectly and hence have become popular with many businesses, especially in implementing the the resource efficiency lessons learned during recent recessionary periods. In […]

The leader’s job is both dynamic and daunting. The leader must choreograph the corporate vision, purpose, values, strategy, tactics, and goals. The leader must also compose the team through which he or she executes the business model. Leaders must influence followers by continually adjusting some 90 material variables validated in […]

What is the relationship between leadership and influence? Is leadership always influence and is influence always leadership? To say that leadership always entails influence is like saying that all snow is white. It’s true but the inference doesn’t work the other way. That is, not all white things are snow. […]

Why carry out employee satisfaction and workplace evaluations? Ideally employers undertake these studies to gather and analyze the information needed to ensure that employees at every level, and in all departments and work locations, have the training, information, time and support required to carry out their jobs safely, effectively and […]

Terran Marauders are cheap and easy to create. You can make 6 or units immediately with just one barracks and one supply depot. Marauders costs 100 minerals and 20 vespene gas which in the starcraft world is considered to be very cheap and power. Over the years gamers develop the […]