Cleaning Up Corporate Email Pollution
Email is a wonderful productivity tool, but usually it seems like someone else is being productive at your expense! How do you harness the power of email, without being a slave to your inbox or becoming addicted to your Blackberry? Read on for some proven tips and techniques which will sharpen […]

1. Setting goals is easy but achieving them isnt. Thats why setting SMART goals Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely is the first step in making your goal a reality.
Make your goal as Specific as possible and express it in positive terms. Do you want to stop losing money […]

So often when companies are considering a business intelligence project or software purchase, a question arises that seems to stump everyone involved.
Where is the ROI in this project?
This question has stopped many a business intelligence project in its tracks. Maybe its asked by the CFO or CEO. Maybe its brought up in one […]

In most cultures, time is regarded as a fundamental quantity, i.e. time is not itself defined from other fundamental qualities such as space or mass, rather it is itself defined by the units it is measured in, which for us would typically be seconds, that quantity know by almost every child as he/she counts off […]

Everybody looks forward to a nice, healthy bonus on top of their salary, but not everyone warrants it. In most workplaces bonuses are distributed on the basis of work performance, so it\’s important to think well ahead and plan out how you can earn the type of bonus you think you deserve.
Remember, employers are constantly […]

So many businesses that I work with have owners who are straddling the fence of generations. On one side of the fence is the generation that struggled with new math and actually learned to spell using a dictionary instead of a spell checker. On the other side of the fence is the generation that could […]

For years manufacturing has been one of the strengths in the overall U.S. economy, and an especially strong force in the Houston economy. However, in 2007, according to a report out from the Institute for Supply Management, factories produced less, saw their orders decline, cut workers, and manufacturing activity in December was the slowest in […]

The \”context\” in which we find ourselves affects our reactions, the resources we call upon, our thinking skills and the strategies we use to solve problems or achieve objectives. Context is a theory (mostly unconscious) we develop concerning the world or some event. Our beliefs, our education, the goals we pursue in life and the […]

Probably more so than with any other administrative service providers, telecommunications vendors benefit from what can be extremely wordy and complex agreements. These benefits coming at the expense of the customer\’s bottom line profitability. Even under the most deliberate scrutiny by experienced procurement professionals, easy to overlook or seemingly innocuous details can wreak havoc […]

Have you ever attended an American football game? The excitement of the cheering crowd, the fast action on the field, the coaches and team members showing support from the sidelines, and the cheerleaders keeping the fans engaged are the components that make this event fun. If you take this same scenario and apply […]