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Casual Articles - Why Do We Measure Performance, Anyway?
Company culture, everyone is talking about it, managers are fostering and developing it, hiring managers and recruitment companies/consultants are assessing it in applicants and customers are using it to discriminate when choosing which company to buy from.What is company culture?In simple terms company culture is the personality and values of the company. For example one company (Company B) may view its company culture as being dynamics, results oriented and cutting edge. Another company (Company C) may view its company culture as b
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To make the most of your marketing and advertising promotions, and keep your customers happy, you need your direct marketing promotions and customer service practices to (what I call) handshake.By providing excellent customer service, together with your direct marketing promotion, your customers will be pleased with you and your product or service. Hence, the handshake is vital to your direct marketing success.The handshake will help ensure you are on track and that you and your staff are ready to meet the demand for your services t
* you can't manage what you don't measure
* what you measure gets done
* we have to be accountable
* they have to be held accountable
* they told us to
These aren't the answers to the question this article asks. The reasons why so many organisations - particularly high performing organisations - measure things are more authentic, more fundamental and more motivating than those listed above.
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At a government agency executive m
India fast emerging as manufacturing hubIndia's technological prowess coupled with a favorable industrial climate is making the country a hub for not just software, but also the manufacturing sector, the Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath reported at the World Economic Forum held at Davos. According to Kamal Nath, the hub of world economic activity is shifting from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. India's technological skills together with its attractiveness as a manufacturing centre are fast making it the hub of not only IT-enabled
* what you measure gets done
* we have to be accountable
* they have to be held accountable
* they told us to
These aren't the answers to the question this article asks. The reasons why so many organisations - particularly high performing organisations - measure things are more authentic, more fundamental and more motivating than those listed above.
To avoid knowing too late
At a government agency executive m
China already leads the world in the number of Internet users as well as Internet usage, with over 800,000 new Internet users coming online every week. You'd think that a country with so much Internet usage would have a big effect on the web. Well, they do, but for US users, we don't often notice their presence unless we go searching for it. Here's what's out there on the Chinese information superhighway:PortalsJust like other countries, Chinese users tend to use portals to find what they're looking for. Yahoo's Chinese portal is rat
* they told us to
These aren't the answers to the question this article asks. The reasons why so many organisations - particularly high performing organisations - measure things are more authentic, more fundamental and more motivating than those listed above.
To avoid knowing too late
At a government agency executive m
Why write a business plan? There are several reasons why you might want to write a business plan. 1. It is a tool for obtaining financing. 2. It will help unite venture partners in a common goal. 3. It can serve as a feasibility study. 4. It will serve as a goal and blueprint for your new business. Of all of the purposes listed, the last one is the most important. According to the Small Business Administration, 95% of all businesses started, fail within the first 5 years. One of the main reasons for failure is
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At a government agency executive m
The one thing almost all the women I meet have in common is that they are too smart for their own good! This is probably true for you, too!If you have great ideas all the time and are very passionate about what you do, and you can never seem to get everything done when you want it done, congratulations - this is you.I understand that you don't want to give anything up, and coming up with the brilliant ideas makes you happy – so don't stop doing it. Instead, you need a tool to keep you focused so you can complete the highest priorit
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At a government agency executive meeting I attended, participants were evaluating whether an end of year revenue target had been met. No it hadn't, and they did have lots of reasons
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