If you want your boss to say yes to your request, you must show him or her that what you want is in his or her best interest.
Everyone's heard of Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and Gen Yers. But according to Human Resource Institute (HRI), companies should pay attention to another, lesser-known group, the "late bloomers." These folks are mid-30s on up, experienced, smart and...
New insights from i4cp about talent competencies.
The authors of the new book Power Mentoring: How Successful Mentors and Proteges Get the Most Out of Their Relationships discuss the latest innovation in mentoring: a broad network of various types of mentors, rather than the old one-on-one model....
Over the course of his career, former CEO Sander Flaum has learned that if you don't take control of your time, others will do it for you. Here are his strategies for leading more efficiently and effectively....
Cue the scary music. Just in time for Halloween, <i>Performance & Profits</i> offers a sample of tales about presentation nightmares that are guaranteed to give you goose bumps. Don't read this alone....
Preventive management is a way to minimize problems in process or operations; a method for continuous improvement.
Learn why today pricing must be focused on value exchange
When times get tough, productivity becomes an overriding priority. Your organization has to get the most out of every resource, even while cutting nonessential costs. But which productivity-enhancement practices are most effective? In May 2008 the...
Bottom-line margin or top-line growth? Ask managers which they want and they will tell you "both." But research into over a thousand companies shows that only 32% are able to achieve both more often than not. With the odds stacked against them, how...