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...
Peter Drucker was the most renowned management thinker of the 20th century, but his greatest insights came not from his considerable knowledge, but from his ignorance. In this excerpt from his new book <i>A Class with Drucker</i>, William A. Cohen, a...
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....
Interview with Amy Binder, CEO of RF|Binder Partners, to discuss the current and future state of the PR business.
Preventive management is a way to minimize problems in process or operations; a method for continuous improvement.
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....
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...
Test your knowledge of 10 common project management terms, from asynchronous communication to critical path.