Lease Or Buy - Which Way For Office Equipment Procurement?

Many companies have found that leasing is a favourable option, when considering the acquisition of high-value office equipment and other business machinery. Several options now exist where leasing can provide the best overall value for money.

Prepared For Take-Off?

Treating your major achievements should be treated with the same degree of planning as flying a commercial airliner. Is Attainability on the Pre-flight Checklist for your goal planning?

Global Corporate Priorities For 2007 - Doing Business With China And India

Never before has the economic outlook been so positive. A recent report produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit highlights a hugely optimistic outlook for 2007 with nine out of ten senior executives regarding prospects for business over the next three years as good or very good. However, with globalization and the emergence of new markets, CEOs are required to manage across increasingly complex and differing environments. Whilst 2007 promises to deliver much, executives need to be realistic about the complexity of the task ahead.

Open A Dollar Store - Ongoing Leader Development

It is important that business owners who open a dollar store continually examine business and management trends. It is even more important that they implement the best of the new business trends. Those who focus time and effort on their own personal business growth and development will be most aware of the best business trends and practices.

How A Small Organization Can Develop It's Own Scorecard

A scorecard is a tool that helps businesses, organizations, and governments monitor progress and track measurable outputs against their set goals, and objectives. It is a snapshot of where an organization stands at a given point in time against the overall goals.

3 Best Practices For Dealing With Disruptive Employees

Rabble rouser. Pot stirrer. Fly in the ointment. These are some terms used to describe the person in the organization that brings some benefit to the team but by far their disruption to the team far outweighs the benefit they offer. This is the person that can be passive-aggressive in meetings, send along flaming emails in the barely veiled disguise of humor, and looks to be the demonstrative non-participant in management team functions. How do you deal with this negative influence?

5 Tips on How to Choose Which Wholesale Promotional Products to Offer

Promotional products are given away primarily to create and sustain interest in a company's products and services. They can be the products itself or, and this happens more frequently than usual, specially made products that are imprinted with the company's name and manufactured exclusively to serve as giveaways.

That Will Never Work!

Are sentiments like these torpedoing innovation and growth where you live? It may help if we understand that negative attitudes are inherent to the human condition. For parents to effectively discipline their children

Leadership Landmines

It happens all the time. Successful leaders- people with great business acumen, great teams and great vision- are moving along, growing their companies when, all of a sudden, they fall flat on their faces.

5 Tips for Naming Measures

The magic of language applies very well to the way we craft our performance measures. The topic of this article is 5 tips for naming your measures so they get more recognition, ownership and trust.

Why Your Current Approach To Inventory Management Is Not Good Practice And Is Costing You Money

Inventory management is the combination of know-how, process, measures and reporting that together provide the opportunity for maximizing availability while minimizing cash investment. There are five reasons why your inventory management is not best practice and is costing you money.

Measure Your Measurement - So You Know If It's Working

Maybe this is one of the indicators of great performance measures - that they focus you so powerfully onto the results you want. So that's the thrust of this article- how to know when your performance measurement is working well.

KPI Traffic Lights - 3 Ways to Highlight the Real Signals in Your Performance Measures

Traffic lighting is a popular strategy for making performance measures easier to interpret. It does this by colour coding (or using symbols) to flag when performance is acceptable or unacceptable, meeting target or not meeting target. Here are 3 tips to make sure they don't lead you in the wrong direction!