tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-129973772012-01-21T02:25:36.745+05:30Provides a insight over latest financial concepts important for TOP Executives. Important corporate topics which may be applied in various meetings and discussions. Disclaimer: Thanks to web/its writers..I have researched and found relevant and useful information and I am sure that viewers will find them interesting."CPerformance"noreply@blogger.comBlogger1551100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12997377.post-64465835666004675662009-11-24T10:57:00.003+05:302009-11-24T10:59:41.181+05:30

Source: Bain

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Although large venture capitalists look for bigger and bigger investments to make and for companies with the ability to grow to $100 million in sales in five to seven years, high net worth individuals or small group investors, commonly called "Angels," account for more capital invested in small companies than all of the venture capital funds combined. The amount of money Angels want to invest and

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The venture capital investment activity is a sequential process involving five steps:1. Deal origination2. Screening3. Evaluation or due diligence4. Deal structuring5. Post-investment activities and exit1. Deal origination A continuous flow of deals is essential for the venture capital business. Deals may originate in various ways. Referral system is an important source of deals. Deals may be

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2009 may not be good for the salaried class - Shabbir Merchant, Outlook Money If you are a salaried professional, don't expect the New Year to be a 'great', or even a 'good' year. For those of us who are already employed, here is what we can expect in 2009. Most of your companies are likely to tighten the screws on performance. This may mean longer work hours, work which is not up to your choice,

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Lehman Brothers had just declared bankruptcy after 158 years in business. Merrill Lynch had been snapped up in a fire sale by Bank of America. Murmurs of woes in credit markets and rating agencies had sent the Dow on a roller-coaster ride, headed mostly down. By the time more than 100 financial analysts arrived in San Jose for their annual meeting at Cisco Systems, many didn't know if they would

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Every time I have a business idea or come across a new opportunity I analyze it using these criteria: 1. Is it really any different from what is currently on the marketplace? 2. What wants and needs am I fulfilling? 3. Who will be buying my products or service offering? 4. How strong are my competitors? 5. Is the market for my idea growing or shrinking? 6. Do I have the time and energy to follow

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Take on the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don’t Want You to Know. What you can do to fight backby Arthur Levitt Levitt, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s longest-serving chairman, supervised stock markets during the late 1990s dot-com boom. As working Americans poured billions into stocks and mutual funds, corporate America devised increasingly opaque strategies for

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A developing medium offers new targeting options.While many marketers want to use social networks as part of their strategies, they still have no clear list of best practices for the medium. Getting friends to spread a marketing message to each other is a great goal, but how is that best done? A November article in Ad Age detailed efforts to use the connections between social network users. Paul

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Futurecovery is a simple mini app which is Ajax based. People are always guessing what they will become in ten years time, what they will be doing in a week, or indeed next year. Futurecovery simply lets the user choose a date, write what they think they will be, have become, or want to be, type in their e-mail and click send.Futurecovery

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What the financially challenged don't know…1. They don't know how to get into the money flow. The crucial distinction between sportsmen and spectators is not that the sportsmen play and the spectators watch; it's that sportsmen get paid, while spectators pay!To get paid you need to be inside the lines, on the field of play. As long as you're the one settling debts, you're a spectator. You're

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SearchCrystal lets you search and compare multiple engines in one place. It sources data from google, yahoo, ask and other major search engines.It is a search visualization tool that enables you to compare, remix and share results from the best web, image, video, blog, tagging, news engines, Flickr images or RSS feeds.You can embed searchCrystal as a Widget on your site or blog to share

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Time value of moneyDo you remember our three friends - Saver, Borrower and Investor and their tryst with Inflation? Inflation is detrimental to Saver but favourable to Borrower and Investor. But this lop-sided scenario can't last forever. Saver can't always be the 'poor guy'. And Borrower and Investor can't benefit endlessly at his expense. We surely know why. If things continue as they are, then

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Power of compounding"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world"- Benjamin Franklin "Compound interest is the world's greatest discovery"- Albert Einstein "In case you earn Rs20,000 per month, do you know how many years it will take for you to become a Crorepati? Not 10 or 20, but 50 years!" exclaims Amitabh Bachchan, the anchor for "Kaun Banega Crorepati".Mr Bachchan, did you know that

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What is the balanced scorecard? The balanced scorecard is a strategic planning and management system that is widely applicable to organizations regardless of size or type of business. The system, extensively used in business and industry, government, and nonprofit organizations worldwide, provides a method of aligning business activities to the vision and strategy of the organization, improving

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Social networking sites are becoming popular day by day. Some Web sites like Facebook, Orkut, Twitter, and Live Spaces are services people can use to connect with others to share information like photos, videos, and personal messages. As the popularity of these social sites grows, so do the risks of using them. Hackers, spammers, virus writers, identity thieves, and other criminals follow the

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Nice article - Once our clientssource : some distribution groupWhen the bubble burstWhile some blame the greed of Wall Street investment bankers and the dangers of a totally unregulated system for the current financial crisis, what can't be denied is that lives, and lifestyles, have been suddenly changed across the social spectrum and careers built up over a lifetime have vanished in an instant.

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Today's CFO faces a dynamic and challenging environment. Excellence, globalization, merger and acquisition , cost and margin pressure, emerging competition, and increased scrutiny by investors and regulators represent just a few of the business trends the finance organization must be prepared to address. Finance consultants work with CFOs and their leadership teams to align finance priorities

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IT IS THE YEAR OF THE TWEEN. Coming off a concert tour, a hit 3-D movie and a risqué picture in Vanity Fair, pop star Miley Cyrus (a.k.a. Hannah Montana) leads a slew of young stars onto our annual Celebrity 100 ranking of the world's ultrafamous. Also building buzz, and drawing dollars, from the under-18 crowd: Daniel Radcliffe, Zac Efron and Ashley Tisdale. Despite weakening television ratings

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Age: 77 Fortune: self made Source: Berkshire Hathaway in United StatesNet Worth: $62.0 bil Country Of Citizenship: United States Residence: Omaha, Nebraska , United States, North America Industry: Investments Marital Status: widowed, remarried, 3 children Education: University of Nebraska Lincoln, Bachelor of Arts / Science Columbia University, Master of Science America's most beloved investor

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Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Together

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Fully Loaded - Technology driven

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Google co-founder Larry Page provides several tips for entrepreneurs. Tip 1: Just don't settle. Especially with employees, it is very important to find great people you are compatible with. Tip 2: There is a benefit from being real experts. Experience pays off. Tip 3: Have a healthy disregard for the impossible. Stretch your goals. Tip 4: It is OK to solve a hard problem. Solving hard problems

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If you want to accomplish anything, doing a lot of stuff is a good place to start. All else being equal, someone who does a lot more will end up more accomplished than a slacker. One of the things that has helped me in the “doing stuff” department is a focus on projects over goals.Just so we’re clear on my terminology, a project is a special type of goal. It’s a goal that is definitely

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 Ideas Come From Everywhere - And Best ideas go to the top Share everything with all. Give Ideas Credit, Not Credit for Ideas. Smart people get best use of it.  Come up with fire-Work with Smart People- no bureaucracy and invite good arguments  License to Pursue Dreams  Learning From Mistakes- give it to users to analyse and come back and always keep ready with solution  Data is Apolitical

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Kawasaki explains that hiring infected people is the most important factor. Often, how a person looks on paper means nothing if they are not enthusiastic and ready to work hard. All of the experience in the world means nothing if they are not bitten and infected by the start-up bug. He also tells you how to avoid the bozo explosion, which only leads to layoffs, and how to apply the shopping

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Guy Kawasaki Making pitches is a way of life for an entrepreneur. Kawasaki provides his tips for ensuring each pitch is better than the last. His 10/20/30 rule for PowerPoint slides is essential

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1. If time doesn't wait for you, don't worry!Just remove the damn battery from the clock and Enjoy life!2. Expecting the world to treat u fairly coz u r a good person is likeexpecting the lion not to attack u coz u r a vegetarian. Think about it.3. Beauty isn't measured by outer appearance and what clothes we wear,but what we are inside. So, try going out naked tomorrow and see the admiration!4.

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A business owner can make good decisions that improve the business performance, profitability and cash flow, provided key data is available..A business consultant with financial management consulting experience will work with the manangement team to identify and deliver the data on which robust decisions can be taken and assist the business in implementing business strategy through agreeing

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VERY INTERESTING AND THOUGHT PROVOKING One day all the employees reached the office and they saw a bigadvice on the door on which it was written: "Yesterday the person who has been hindering your growth in thiscompany passed away. We invite you to join the funeral in the room thathas been prepared in the gym". In the beginning, they all got sad for the death of one of their

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By all rights, Scott Rosen is an expert on hiring people. So when he went looking for a successor to run his 13-year-old executive-placement firm in Voorhees, NJ, he figured he could rely on his gut.Instead of someone with plenty of operational experience, Rosen went with an unusual choice: a 20-year sales veteran who had also managed a team of 25 employees. "I met with him a few times and really

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25 GOLDEN RULES: 1 Plan your trades. Trade your plan. 2 Keep records of your trading results. 3 Keep a positive attitude, no matter how much you lose. 4 Don't take the market home. 5 Forget your College degree and trust your instincts. 6 Successful traders buy into bad news and sell into good news. 7 Successful traders are not afraid to buy high and sell low. 8 Continually strive for patience

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What is Excellencec?Excellence is spoken of as the desired outcome for individuals and organisations, but rarely seen in action. Fear and pain associated with change and being seen to be different are drivers for mediocrity. This article explores excellence and hurdles that must be overcome to be outstanding.“I am just calling to let you know you have missed out on the job. I know it has been a

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1. Ploughback and reservesAfter deduction of all expenses, including taxes, the net profits of a company are split into two parts -- dividends and ploughback.Dividend is that portion of a company's profits which is distributed to its shareholders, whereas ploughback is the portion that the company retains and gets added to its reserves.The figures for ploughback and reserves of any company can be

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How do you feel when you finally see and admit to yourself that you were wrong? What if the mistake ended up being very costly? Are you haunted by mistakes past?Human systems are chaotic - sensitive to conditions and impossible to predict with certainty. Decisions made in human systems will sometimes fail because: * We did not do the right research * The reactions after the decision was not

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The Corporate Cynic is back with another tale of workplace woe that highlights how a lack of communication from senior management can so easily leave those below them hopelessly confused and uninformed.There are few words that can strike more terror into the hearts of employees than "reorganization." This is what the Cynic experienced when the upper-management at his company issued a memo that

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Before becoming too excited about the substantial returns possible from futures trading, it is a good idea to take a long, sober look at the risks. Reward and risk are always related. It is unrealistic to expect to be able to earn above-average investment returns without taking above-average risks as well.Most people are naturally risk averse. They don't like to take big risks, especially

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If you've ever been unfavorably compared to Einstein, you can take heart. In fact, if you've ever been told that you're "hardly an Einstein", you may actually be closer to the great physicist than you think.This recent article by Eric Weiner in the LA Times shows the link that many of us share with Dr. Einstein. Unfortunately, it's not that we share his freaky intelligence, but rather that we're

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What are the best and worst jobs around? Researcher Les Krantz has some views on this he has espoused in this piece for CareerJournal.com - and some of his answers may be a bit surprising.The criteria Krantz used to determine the best and worst jobs is a bit interesting. For example, he makes assumptions about certain professions and assumes that working inside is better than working outside. He

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When I read studies from such eminent and august institutions such as Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital that commitment is largely influenced by a person's sense of purpose, feeling of personal impact and overall trust in their organisation, I actually begin to wonder that if I were to stand on my head, would the blood rush to my head in a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction

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HRmarketer.com will soon be launching a new site (Q1 2008) that sports a graphic redesign that emphasizes social networking, RSS feeds and other Web 2.0 features. When it goes live, the site will showcase some very impressive state-of-the-art features.The purpose of making these enhancements is simple - to better service the needs of our customers by leveraging the power of social networking and

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Lifehack published a very important and interesting article titled 7 Stupid Thinking Errors You Probably Make. They write:The brain isn’t a flawless piece of machinery. Although it is powerful and comes in an easy to carry container, it has it’s weaknesses. A field in psychology which studies these errors, known as biases. Although you can’t upgrade your mental hardware, noticing these biases can

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Benchmarks are important, and in the recruiting world, one benchmark stands above all: time to fill. Time to fill calculations are general industry standards and beating them is always very satisfying. SHRM has a brief available that gives some basic numbers on time to fill stats. 33 days to fill a durable goods manufacturing position? Check.As a benchmarks lover, though, I can't help but wonder

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Do you hate your job? Are you sure? According to 7 Ways to Determine that you Hate your Job, there are certain signs to look for that might indicate how you really feel about it.Do you get the "Monday Morning Blues?" If you truly dread Monday more than any other day, then the work you are doing may not be work you find enjoyable or rewarding. Is Friday the day you long for more than any other?

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Your boss is a living nightmare and is making your job a living hell. He or she dumps work on you at the last minute. Then they take credit for all of your hard work and never thank you. It seems like you are going to have to look for a new job, right? Well, before quitting, maybe you need to try something called F.I.R.S.T. This acronym comes from a book discussed in an article at

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European employers take note: when drafting up your monitoring policies in the workplace, you'd do well to be explicit in your instructions. Failure to do so may well see you fighting lawsuits before the European Court of Human Rights.Recently, a company in Britain was found guilty of violating an employee's right to respect for private life (Article 8 of the European Convention). Why? Were they

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So, can it be proven just how much a bad boss can affect a working environment? A study from Florida State University and scheduled for publication in Fall of 2007 in Leadership Quarterly has attempted to quantify exactly that. According to this study 40 per cent of workers in the business world think they work for bad bosses. As for what constitutes a bad boss, they have a variety of answers. 39

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Case Study: Employee Absenceby Stephen AdamsGraphics and Commercial ArtJoan, an employee of Great American Market, was warned about her excessive absenteeism several times, both verbally and in writing. The written warning included notice that "further violations will result in disciplinary actions," including suspension or discharge.A short time after the written warning was issued, Joan called

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So what is Microsoft's secret weapon in the battle to attract the brightest and best minds from across the globe? The answer, according to this Reuters feature, is cricket.Mindful of the fact that employees of Indian descent make something like one in six of Microsoft's 35,000 workers in the greater Seattle area and that US employers now face much stiffer competition from the booming Indian

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I’m sure many of you saw the story abut the escalating talent war between Vmware and Google,“Trip Chowdhry, an analyst at Global Equities Research, estimated that Palo Alto, California-based VMware is paying $130,000 to $160,000, plus stock options –compensation that only Google can match, he said. The programmers I know say that most offers are still tied closely to industry averages and that no

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Are super-rich CEOs smart or lucky? Is being lucky a skill? Can sleeping in late make you more money than getting in early? Is being in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing something you can learn? Join Max McKeown and Laurence Haughton as they make each other laugh while discovering the secrets of Facebook, Fortune, & Fate.So here's the question. Has Facebook become the

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Globe reports on a new program that focuses on improving interpersonal communication:In the workplace, social settings, and family situations, effective communication is key to productive relationships. But different personality types communicate in different ways, often causing communication breakdowns when opposing styles clash. Marriages chafe. Friendships falter. Work product suffers as

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As a recruiter, I often look at applicants to our company and wonder why they are leaving their (seemingly) perfect jobs. A quick look at this year's winner in Working America's Bad Boss contest reminds me of all the back stories candidates are (usually) too professional to say.A glimpse at the 'winning' entry: My story starts with me being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. I am in my early

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An interesting pair of articles came my way this weekend. The first, was in Canada’s Vancouver Sun regarding the exiting of women from law firms.“Of 1,400 Canadian lawyers surveyed, 84 per cent of women and 66 per cent of men rated “an environment supportive of my family and personal commitments” as an important factor in choosing to work at another firm. Money and career advancement were well

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Now there's a new excuse for persistently not showing up for work (to go with such classics as "my dog ate the car keys"). According to German researchers, persistent absenteeism could be a symptom of work phobia.As the Daily Telegraph reported last week, the research claims that "work-related phobia is an anxiety disorder but because it can occur in people who do not suffer from general anxiety

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Analysing any Indian company... Investment made so easy...Indian Equity analysis

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Analysing any Indian company... Investment made so easy...Indian Equity analysis

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The links below are to letters from Warren E. Buffett regarding pledges to make gifts of Berkshire stock.Letters from Warren E. Buffett

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A client shared some excellent information from a book he read recently with his people (and me) and I thought I’d share it with you.The “secrets” aren’t new, but they’re in a handy format that’s easily assimilated.Read the secrets and pass them on to everyone you know. The more people who embrace them, the more civilized, valuable and productive your interactions will be—both professionally and

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The Human Resource Planning Society (HRPS) in partnership with the Institute for Corporate Productivity in the US have concluded that HR departments, HR Directors and their management colleagues are failing to address the strategic or people challenges facing their organisations.So what else is new? What about telling us something that we don't already know !Until those people leading major

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People talk about the tools that are now available to build your employer brand externally but it is also about the effect on talent internally. Talent outside work have the ability to connect, collaborate, join communities - it is shaping their life experiences. To engage people you need to be able to deliver an employment experience that at least matches if not exceed their expectations.Think

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I was discussing performance (his) with a client today, and he said, “One thing I’m finding out is that it’s absolutely necessary to rest. The more rested I am, the better I am as a CEO. I’m too tired, much of the time, have too much busy work. I actually feel guilty when I’m not working to my maximum or over it—I need to change my mindset.”He’s right—and it applies to every level, from execs to

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For some really fascinating reading check out Business Week’s The Future of Work, covering a myriad of topics and issues for managers, career info and guidance for workers and profiles of what and how technologies are changing the work-world.Especially interesting is the survey of 2,000 Americans in middle management and above, 25 years and older, on work, now and in a decade. Some of the

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To have the most productive employees, you must build a partnership. As in any partnership, each side needs to contribute specific things to ensure the success of the operationAnd although the efforts are equally valuable yours must come first, because it’s your contribution, as their manager/leader, that enables your partners’ to contribute their share.Although what you need to do can be summed

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In 2005, Merck was in crisis when Richard Clark was tapped as the man to save it and promoted to CEO. In addition to monster lawsuits and the upcoming loss of patent protection on two major products, “Merck’s labs, which other companies once hailed as a bastion of scientific innovation, were crippled by a culture that buried good ideas under layers of bureaucracy. But in the morass, Clark saw

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Some employees seem to be working at a steady level of hell that can scarcely be believed. The imaginatively-named website Work or Spoon has been created for these unfortunates. The people at Work or Spoon pose this question: "Have you ever had a day where you just thought that gouging your eye out with a spoon would be so much less painful than going to work?" In response, they created a website

"CPerformance"noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12997377.post-63189051342147008812007-08-30T09:46:00.000+05:302008-05-15T17:20:03.283+05:30

If what the web tells us is anything to go by, it seems almost universally accepted that bosses suck. So, as a manager, what are you to do? Doesn't anyone have any advice about how to be a good boss? Is being one even possible? Well, yes - and this article has some tips that might be useful.The article starts by stating three of the biggest missteps a manager makes. "I'm right, you're wrong. Obey

"CPerformance"noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12997377.post-43556806107130187322007-08-29T17:32:00.000+05:302008-05-15T17:18:25.516+05:30

I am an unabashed follower of the HR philosophy of Jack Welch, former CEO of GE. He is a proponent of a "business-like" approach to HR that emphasizes its critical role in impacting organizational results. Welch is certainly controversial in HR circles because he advocates many things that "softies" in HR regale against, including differentiation in treatment, honest and direct performance

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Sometimes the way that companies behave leaves you open-mouthed with astonishment. Take the way some handle the sacking of employees " Guy was a trainer, travelling all over to various offices. He was here in our office to deliver Lotus Notes training to about 20 people. Yep, they showed up for the class only to see a quickly scrawled note on the whiteboard informing them class was cancelled.We

"CPerformance"noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12997377.post-27173112910653382552007-08-29T09:44:00.000+05:302008-05-15T17:18:25.517+05:30

As much as employees like to complain about their managers, let's not forget that many managers have to deal with some pretty dire employees. Leslie Mann, columnist and blogger for the Washington Post, is looking for stories about those kinds of employees. In this posting on her blog, she asks for your stories.The original article was published last year, but people are still submitting. Leslie

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Interview training for managers pays more dividends than just better hiring. In a review of human resource practices at 50 large U.S. companies, Watson Wyatt found that 65 percent of companies with a highly engaged workforce provide interview training for managers, vs. 33 percent of companies with a less-engaged workforce.Those with highly engaged workers also spend more time in preparing

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Baseball is much smarter about testing the talent at hand than any other line of work in North America. It's not that performance evaluation is more important in Baseball, just that in Baseball, they accept the Truth of how critical on-going performance evaluation is. And because they know it, they do it all the time, and because they do it all the time, they are more likely to master the

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It's enough to make your employees sick!Productivity is up and so are the number of "bummed out, frazzled and overwhelmed" employees. Combined with the rising cost of health care and health insurance, an aging workforce, and global competitiveness, the U.S. business community is under attack. While economists, politicians, academics and the media debate the intensity of the The Perfect Labor

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If all you fishermen out there are feeling left behind in the wake of the technology tsunami, chin up, because there is a place for you at TidalFish.com. By joining the community you are becoming part of a real community- a social network that stays connected online but also gets together in real life! This site has tons of fishing information that is extremely well organized. Site visitors can

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How much money do you have available right now? The answer is a mystery most of the time unless you are one of those meticulous people who keep track. For everyone else, JustAddMoney.com is an easy way to know exactly how much you have earned, spent, and saved up to the moment. Waiting for bank statements to arrive is a great excuse for overspending, getting into debt, and generally feeling

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With Pamfax you can send faxes anywhere in the world using Skype credits. The downloadable program fully integrates with Skype so you don’t need any external equipment. Once the program is installed on your computer it will prompt you to select a file to send. A Pamfax toolbar button can be directly added to Microsoft Office so you’ll be able to send files directly form Word or Excel. Documents

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New Zealand based SimpleAds is giving you the chance to win an Apple TV. And as the name so eloquently announces, it’s simple. If you own a blog or website, you can place your site’s ad on the SimpleAd homepage for a mere $8 (NZD) a month. After every three hundred ads a winner will be drawn; hence the Apple TV(winners may also accept cash, if they so please). As for the ad itself, it must be in

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Stocks.us is the start page for investors, traders, and stock market professionals. Updated every fifteen minutes, stocks.us provides links to multiple news headlines and blurbs pertaining to specific stocks. Links to the stories lead directly to news sources which include The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! Finance, MSN Money, Google Finance, Forbes.com, Reuters, TheStreet.com, CNNMoney.com,

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If you are the type of person who loathes globetrotting with your storage card for fear of losing it, the DigitalBucket team has a solution for you. The beta release of their online data storage application lets you upload and manage all of your files remotely, exactly as if you were on your own desktop at home, eliminating the need for online file transfers and large email attachments. You can

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Finding out everything concerning the traffic on your website or blog is made easy with W3Counter.com.Finding With this free program you can track up to the minute details on the visitors of your site without having to filter through confusing web-talk. By adding a small code to your site W3Counter generates information such as the sites and searches that bring the most visitors to your site,

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Worklight uses 2.0 goodies such as RSS and Ajax enabling businesses and professionals’ easy access to corporate data. Other features for info dispersal include desktop and web-based widgets and gadgets, personalized homepages, mashups, IM, and social bookmarks. Information is obtained through the use of adapters which easily plug in to apps and SQL interfaces among others. Worklight essentially

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Wizlite is a tool allowing users to collaboratively highlight important passages on pages on the Internet. Users can organize in groups and attach notes to their selections. Wizlite is activated by a bookmarklet or Firefox toolbar extension.Wizlite is great for many applications, such as topic discovery (e.g. for talks) or reviewing.”Anal students and legal interns now have a cool new way to

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Shozam basically operates in the same way that PhotoBucket.com and Slideroll, except it is not a web app, the program needs to be downloaded from the site. What seperates this company from PhotoBukcet and Slideroll is that you can not only just publish your photo galleries and add music to them, but you can also copywright your images and add geo-tagging. If one wishes to partake in eCommerce

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TubeBattle is a site where videos literally battle it out in a sort of video-off for supremacy. Two videos duke it out—you decide the winner. Videos are classified by type; there are viral videos, funny videos, ads and commercials, music videos, movie trailers and game videos. TubeBattle selects the best videos out there, or least some of the more interesting videos. Some of the stuff tends to

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Taskbin.com is a great site that offers an organizational boost to teamwork. On Taskbin.com all group members have their own to-do list, priorities, completed tasks, timetables, and access to the task bins of others in the group. The idea is that everyone in the group begins and stays on the same page. The site is easy to use and as simple as typing in the test box, clicking on a time and

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Film and television director/writer Josh Becker never thought his first book, "The Complete Guide to Low-Budget Feature Filmmaking," would get a lot of attention from big-name publishers. The title, which was aimed at a niche market, would find better reception at a small independent company, Becker reasoned.His New York literary agent had different ideas. She said, "Here's a list of who I'm

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Minglets offers a service especially and only for iPhone users, it is a chat feature that allows people to, "socialize and mingle" with other iPhone users. To sign up with the service, all one has to do is log into the Minglets.com website via the iPhone and choose something from the Minglet category menu that interests you, sex, autos, cities, lounge and many more, and you are in. The website is

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Who knows better about the direction that a company is heading in than the people that are running it. With the Sarbanes-Oxley act being in effect in 2002 partly because of the horrific happenings with Enron, people working within the companies are now more well watched and need to publicize their trading moves more when buying or selling company stock. This is an invaluable tool for investors

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Ventbox.com gives everyone a soapbox on their very own computer. If you’ve had a bad day or are just a whiney person, Ventbox.com welcomes your complaints. If you feel like venting but have no good reason to vent, this site provides hundreds of irritating ideas. Even if you are not in the mood to vent, but have a hankering to be angry, just read some posts and vent about that topic, or the other

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Looking for a better way to keep track of your expenses? Tired of keeping tons of papers? Gastus is a free application that helps you manage your daily expenses. Gastus offers an incredibly easy way to know exactly how much you've paid every month. You can categorize expenses by types and concepts, and make nice pie charts and graphs to analyze your data. Everything is about expenses control,

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JumpChart.com is an online interactive sitemap that offers a service for website designers copywriters, photographers, programmers, content creators and clients where all can visualize the building process of the site in one online tool such as Jumpchart.com. This service provides 100% approved content, and site navigation; clean, valid CSS that's easy to customize; pre-populated pages full of

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If you are looking for the latest and greatest information in the engineering field, Engcom.net is a useful user-generated site which allows people to post articles that they find interesting and relevant. In turn, other users may rate these articles, thereby generating a community rank on a scale of “interesting” to “boring” for all submissions. Additionally, one can post or browse in a variety

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Once a person acquires more than a few websites it becomes a bit of a task to keep good track of what exactly is going on with them, what ranks they are, etc. With DomainLogBook.com, all that needs to be done to keep track of multiple websites easily is to input them into the website and after that, the list will be accessible on the home page and all of the Google and Alexa rankings can be seen

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With Knibble.com you can log onto the website and with moments be playing one of the 10,139 absolutely free games that are being offered. The Los Gatos California startup has been mashing a social networking aspect with this casual gaming, now not only can you log on and play all the games you want, you can also network with other gamers who have similar interests in games as you and you can play

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fooWHO.com, this site allows you to create a profile where you list all of you interests, then rate or submit items that interest you. The site is a digg that allows people with the same interests to help each other find items or to introduce each other to items that they will enjoy. Items can be anything from the most advanced cell phone to an underground band. The items, once submitted can be

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If you aren't already familiar with PikiPimp or Comeeko.com, the former is a site made by the same people behind this website and you can upload a picture and pimp it out, you can put sunglasses on people, jewelry, eye patches and whatever you think is necessary, the ladder is also made by the same people as this site and its a site where you can customize your own comic strip and import your own

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S33k is a web-based invitation service. Subscribed members can easily compile and send event invites with minimal effort. Included in each email invite is a link to your event page, where you should have already entered in important info such as title, location and a handful of possible dates and times. Invitees can than vote on your site for the best dates. Once everyone has voted you’ll be sent

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Couple of quick items I thought you’d find interesting.First Interesting Item: The Wall Street Journal ran a great story the other day on the follies of MBA-powered mismanagement. Well, I thought it was a great story, anyway. No one else seemed to pay much attention… probably because it doesn’t fit into the average person’s belief system that a Master’s in Business Administration is good for

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Mary Pembleton bolted upright in bed with a grand vision.For some time, she had been using a soft mini soccer ball with words on each panel in her special needs classes in Haddon Township elementary schools.Why, she wondered aloud to her husband, Gregg, couldn’t that invention be taken to the masses, not only as an educational tool, but as a marketing device?It took a year to patent the idea,

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Tribyounal is Web 2.0’s equivalent of the gavel. It takes crowd wisdom to the courtroom. If you have a beef to settle, but haven’t exactly got the funds for expert opinion, Tribyounal’s there to help. Basically, the community plays judge and jury. You, as defendant can post your complaints and allegations, along with evidence—be it photographic, textual, aural, or of the filmic sort. Let the

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If you have a lot of international friends and some aren't English speakers, then Zeeya is a cool international student social networking site. It is offered in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Chinese. Zeeya has the usual suite of social networking tools - you can create a profile, have friends, share your photos, send messages, create discussion groupd (presumably about study

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