| Make the Most of Your Mentoring Relationships |
| Mentoring is one of the best ways to learn, to get feedback, and to take your career to the next level. Here are ten tips for ma... |
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| The Sink Or Swim Approach To Leadership |
| Looking around in most corporate environments today you'll find mission, vision and values statements proudly displayed on the w... |
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| Truth or Consequences: How to Give Employee Feedback |
| In the bestseller, Good to Great, Jim Collins discovered that, "the good-to-great companies continually refined the path to grea... |
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| Infrastructure and Prosperity |
| In the past, if you mentioned the word "infrastructure", the verbal reflex would be: "physical". Infrastructure was roads, telep... |
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| Tips for Launching Your Own Business |
| This November marks my two-year anniversary of starting my own human resources consulting business. As I look back on the years,... |
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| How To Better Handle Your Mail |
| Letters, magazines, bills, flyers, what to do with them all. There should be only two responses to every piece of mail or e-mail... |
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| Realistic Goals...How To Set Them and Why |
| So many people want to start a business today and be rich tomorrow. Sorry, people it doesn't happen that way. If it did, everyon... |
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| Getting Started |
| One of the first things we do with our Partnering For Your Success students is to have them plan out how many hours they can spe... |
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| Make Mine to Grow: Building Your Solo Business to Outgrow You! |
| Many solo entrepreneurs choose to curtail their businesses growth for the purpose of lifestyle. Others have visions of expansion... |
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| 4th Quarter 2003 Publicity = 1st Quarter 2004 Prosperity |
| As the year starts to wind down, many businesses and entrepreneurs are making plans and budgets for the year 2004. Those plans c... |
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| Storytelling - The Great Motivator of People |
| Storytelling - The Great Motivator of People
In a data-driven world, facts and figures are the order of the day in sales cal... |
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| Interview With Michael Murray: "Autoresponder Basics" |
| This interview is with Michael Murray, the author of a top selling ebook titled “Autoresponder Basics.” Michael is also involved... |
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| Why is the Macedonian Stock Exchange Unsuccessful? |
| The Macedonian Stock Exchange (MSE) is not operating successfully. True, some of the parameters which we use to measure the succ... |
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| Don't Need No Stinking PR? |
| Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy woul... |
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| God's Diplomacy - International Trade and the Macedonian Economy |
| A British politician, Richard Cobden once (1857) wrote:
"Free Trade is God's diplomacy and there is no other certain way of ... |
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| Outsourcing – A Positive Approach For Small Businesses |
| Outsourcing is the strategic use of outside resources to perform activities traditionally handled by internal staff and resource... |
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| The Sickly State of Public Hospitals |
| There are many types of hospitals but the most well known are the Public Hospitals. What sets them apart is that they provide se... |
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| To Tax or Not to Tax - This is the Question |
| To tax or not to tax - this question could have never been asked twenty years ago.
Historically, income tax is a novel inven... |
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| The Greatest Stedilnica Crisis in History |
| A crisis the size of the TAT crisis, is, inevitably, political. It involves thousands of citizens, many decision makers from eve... |
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| The Typology of Financial Scandals |
| Tulipmania - this is the name coined for the first pyramid investment scheme in history.
In 1634, tulip bulbs were traded in... |
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| I Can't Afford A PR/Publicity Campaign -- Can I? |
| It’s a phrase I hear over and over again from many entrepreneurs, small businesses owners and inventors: “I’d love to hire someo... |
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| Smart Choices: How to Hire the Best |
| Your organization’s continued growth and success depend on making smart choices and hiring the best. Today’s economy is explodin... |
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| Becoming An Empowered Consumer |
| How many times have you said to yourself…"I just wish that company would treat me like they appreciated my business!"?
For m... |
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| Why PR Packs a Punch |
| Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy woul... |
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| "Publicrelationistas?" |
| Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy woul... |
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| The Self-Appointed Altruists |
| Their arrival portends rising local prices and a culture shock. Many of them live in plush apartments, or five star hotels, driv... |
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| How About MANAGING Your Own PR? |
| Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy woul... |
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| Are You PR-Challenged? |
| Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy woul... |
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| No Load Mutual Funds or Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)? |
| If you are fed up with early redemption charges and ever increasing mutual fund management fees on top of bad-performing fund ma... |
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| Public Relations Mixup? |
| Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy woul... |
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| Get PR Off the Bench |
| Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy woul... |
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| Nothing Happens Until Someone Sells Somthing |
| You can always tell a good salesperson, they are always on the look-out for opportunities to do exactly that. Every chance they ... |
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| How (NOT) to Buy Mutual Funds |
| When it comes to mutual funds, there is a lot more to success than just finding a good one. Sad investment stories like the foll... |
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| Are You a PR Chowderhead? |
| Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy woul... |
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| Success Tips for Small Business Owners |
| Running a small business requires many skills. However, to do this successfully you need to organize yourself first. Avoid procr... |
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| Want PR's Full Value? |
| Make sure somebody is worrying about those outside audience behaviors you need to help reach your objectives.
And I mean the... |
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| PR: Let's Talk Fundamentals |
| Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy woul... |
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| Do You Want To Be A Pilot In The United States? |
| I receive many emails requesting information about becoming an airline pilot in the United States. This article addresses many o... |
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| How To Decrease Profits Without Really Trying |
| Hurting your sales efforts can be accomplished easily with the proper guidance. The following effective yet simple ideas are des... |
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| Time Management Tips for Managers |
| Late last year I was presenting a workshop for the senior managers of a major organisation. Whilst doing a pre-workshop survey t... |
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| A New Look at Labor Day |
| A day to reflect on the accomplishments of working people: That's been the proud tradition since the first, unofficial, Labor Da... |
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| Time Management Tips |
| This week we're going to take a look at your time management skills. Most of us have to work, and the more you can do in the lea... |
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| The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Employee and Management Owned Firms |
| Margaret Thatcher started a world trend during her tenure as Prime Minister is Downing Street. It is called: Privatization. It c... |
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| Use Every Weapon You Have |
| One of the strongest weapons available allows business, non-profit and association managers to begin changing the behaviors of t... |
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| Virtual Assistance; A Money Saving Opportunity For Employers. |
| What is a Virtual Assistant? A Virtual Assistant is a highly skilled, independent entrepreneur who provides business services in... |
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| Make Your PR Budget Work Harder |
| Do it by restructuring your business, non-profit or association public relations program so that it delivers the stakeholder beh... |
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| Time Management - How to Have Productive Meetings |
| One of the greatest time wasters of all are unnecessary or poorly run meetings. If you want to dramatically improve your time ma... |
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| 10 Ways For Entrepreneurs To Find More Time |
| It's occurred to me lately that I don't feel like there's enough time to do everything I want to do in my business. Between work... |
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| Make It Happen Now! |
| Most people think that when they have chosen a path that's it - that's the path to follow. This is far from the truth according ... |
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| Handling Customer Complaints |
| Handling Customer Complaints
Even the best business will receive an occasional customer complaint. Knowing how to resolve th... |
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| Buy and Hold: How to Perpetuate Your Investment Losses |
| A recent cartoon in my daily newspaper showed two guys sitting in a bar. One is saying to the other: “I did learn something from... |
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| Outsourcing Problem Analysis |
| As an HR professional, you have responsibilities in several broad areas that have a significant impact on your company’s bottom ... |
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| Human Resource Communication Pays Off |
| Human Resource Communications and Corporate Communications – are they one in the same? Both plan and develop written communicati... |
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| Managing the Human Resource Project |
| We obtain strategic results by aligning HR mission, vision and values. The following overview highlights a macro approach to pro... |
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| Small Business 'No' How - Don't Give Away the Farm |
| You're pretty proud of yourself! After all, only four months ago you came up with the idea of opening your own business - "Jenni... |
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| How To Find A Home Based Business |
| If you're serious about finding an online business and you've been looking, then you probably already know that this is a tediou... |
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| The Harvest: Shared Power |
| The fall harvest comes upon us once a year. The farmers collect the sometimes-scant rewards of their heroic efforts begun months... |
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| Mind the Gap |
| The underground train in London can get you anywhere when you know how to maneuver all the options. Like our subways, London und... |
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| Invite Self-Managed Staff |
| "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being." Goethe Two hun... |
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| Give yourself a Boss' Day Gift, Part 2: Are you the position or the person? |
| Are you the position or the person?
Bosses can lose their own identity sometimes. It’s easy. It happens a lot. The results a... |
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| Why All Managers Are Alike |
| Because, like you I suspect, they have key target audiences whose behaviors help or hinder them in achieving their organizationa... |
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| A Dollar A Day |
| what can you buy for a dollar a day, maybe a chocolate bar or a can coke or maybe some other perishable items of food.
But w... |
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| Give Yourself a Boss’ Day Gift |
| Become a better boss and reap the benefits
Another interesting study was done. One that should really catch our attention. I... |
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| Team Effort Pays Off for Entrepreneurs |
| Business owners should not be running the day-to-day activities within their companies. In order to bring small and medium size ... |
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| The Executive Resume - Moving Beyond Accomplishments |
| There is a major difference between conventional resumes and executive resumes. Accomplishments are usually the center point of ... |
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| 2910 |
| On Thursday, September 13, 2001, I went to facilitate a session with first line supervisors in a company for whom I had been con... |
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| Get Paid to Shop And Keep Everything You Buy - Without Having to Pay! |
| Can You Tell Good Service From Bad; Recognise Value For Money; Compare Prices, Staff Efficiency, Product Range, Customer Service... |
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| Get In The Game With a Stellar Resume |
| During the job hunter's market of the 1990's, employers were settling for less than qualified candidates because the candidate p... |
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| 50 Surefire Business Card Tips |
| Business cards are one of the most powerful and inexpensive marketing tools you can use. Here are 50 surefire tips to make the m... |
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| How To Prevent Your New Manager From Becoming A Statistic |
| According to a study by the Manchester Group, 4 out of 10 new managers fail in the first 18 months! The top 5 reasons cited:* No... |
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| The Benefits of Catalog Sales For Your Business: |
| Things to watch out for when selling your product in catalogs.
Giving away the farm.
Many catalogs will ask for a multit... |
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| "Bankers' Banks"- The Role of Central Banks in Banking Crises |
| Central banks are relatively new inventions. An American President (Andrew Jackson) even cancelled its country's central bank in... |
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| Working With A Financial Adviser |
| (NC)—With a steadily increasing number of investment choices in the market, it's easy to become overwhelmed. Without a plan in p... |
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| 10 Ways to Advertise Your Business For Free! |
| At some point many small business owners are left with no or a small amount of capital to promote their business. But many entre... |
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| Risk-Free Investing With Term Investments |
| (NC)—Are you a risk-averse investor? Do you fear losing any of your initial investment? Do you rely on your investments as a sou... |
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| Five Reasons To Stay Committed To Your Retirement Savings |
| (NC)—As an investor working to build your portfolio, you face many day-to-day demands on your money. It's not always easy to det... |
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| Budgeting For Prosperity |
| Budgeting For ProsperitySeven Steps to Follow To Achieve Financial Freedom
Without a sound financial plan, a business is doo... |
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| Quick Tips For The First-Time Homebuyer |
| (NC)—Buying your first home is an exciting new experience. Attending Open Houses, putting in an offer to buy and decorating your... |
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| Bankers in Denial |
| Denial is a ubiquitous psychological defense mechanism. It involves the repression of bad news, unpleasant information, and anxi... |
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| Tips For First-Time Homebuyers |
| (NC)—Near record low interest rates are opening the doors of homeownership for many Canadians. "This may be the perfect time to ... |
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| Your Home – A Hidden Source Of Financing |
| (NC)—Your home is more than just a place to hang your hat. In addition to being a source of pride and protection, it can be a va... |
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| Online Forums Help Businesses Generate Additional Streams of Revenue |
| Small businesses and inventors often find it difficult to reach the global market because the traditional transfer of intellectu... |
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| Innovators: How To Turn Your Dreams Into Reality |
| Whether you have tried to sell your ideas in the past and failed or whether you have never tried beyond nurturing your ideas in ... |
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| How to Patent Your Invention |
| A patent is a government granted right that allows the inventor to exclude anyone else from making, using or selling the inventi... |
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| Residual Income |
| Hi, I'm Peter Owen, Director and founder of Tall Oak Limited.
We have produced this article to give you a quick insight into... |
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| The Narcissist in the Workplace |
| To a narcissist-employer, the members of his "staff" are Secondary Sources of Narcissistic Supply. Their role is to accumulate t... |
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| Build, Don't Blow, Your Annual Bonus |
| (NC)—More and more companies are incorporating a bonus structure into compensation programs. Bonuses are generally based on perf... |
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| The Ecology of Environmentalism |
| The concept of "nature" is a romantic invention. It was spun by the likes of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the 18th century as a conf... |
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| When To Make Your Career Move To Self Employment |
| Knowing when to make the right career move and start a home based business is just as important as the business you choose to st... |
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| Don't Put Up With "Junk PR" |
| Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy woul... |
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| Are You the Culprit? |
| Are you a manager who pretty much ignores your organization’s important outside audiences?
If that’s you, do you realize how... |
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| Corruption and Transparency |
| I. The Facts
Just days before a much-awaited donor conference, the influential International Crisis Group (ICG) recommended ... |
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| Narcissism in the Boardroom |
| The perpetrators of the recent spate of financial frauds in the USA acted with callous disregard for both their employees and sh... |
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| The Wages of Science |
| In the United States, Congress approved, last month, increases in the 2003 budgets of both the National Institutes of Health and... |
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| OPEC's Swan Song? |
| Indonesia's Energy Minister, Purnomo Yusgiantoro, is unhappy with the modest production cut, from June 1, of 2 million barrels p... |
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| Begging Your Trust in Africa |
| The syntax is tortured, the grammar mutilated, but the message - sent by snail mail, telex, fax, or e-mail - is coherent: an Afr... |
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| Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch |
| "It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in... |
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| The Morality of Child Labor |
| From the comfort of their plush offices and five to six figure salaries, self-appointed NGO's often denounce child labor as thei... |
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| Affiliate Programs 101! |
| Joining an affiliate program is one of the easiest ways to... |
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