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Advice from the author of Eleven Leadership Tips For Supervisors.

M.P. Bhattathiri applies principles from the Bhagavad Gita to management.

Hiring is one of a manager’s most important responsibilities. Although most organizations recognize the opportunities and consequences involved with talent selection, few are prepared to lead a truly effective interview process. This article will give you a few tips for making the most of your limited time with a prospective employee.

In order to position a new hire for success, it is important that an organization prepares in advance and continues to support a new hire throughout the first several months (and beyond). This article explores some tried and true best practices for employee onboarding procedures.

Navigating the hiring process can be daunting for even the most seasoned managers, particularly if hiring is the not your primary responsibility. We have found, time and again, that the organizations who lead the most effective searches have a clearly defined and strategic process outlined before they even post the position. This is what we refer to as a Search Strategy, and this strategy directly impacts the efficiency and effectiveness of any search process.

Harnessing your untapped potential can counteract the recession: 3 simple, low-cost actions to quickly boost revenue.

The fashion for business metrics has led to many advances. But "balanced scorecards" have their faults. Can we improve on the system?

War can be any conflict or competition founded on divergent interests in which two or more opponents contest for achieving own objectives. This contest for conflicting interests can be as violent as a nuclear holocaust between two nuclear states or as benign as a contest between two street hawkers for getting more customers. While the military contest is traditionally known as a War, the business end, however, is not known in this sense despite the fact that in both cases, there are conflicting interests and both sides contest for these interests. Let us do a critical analysis of the definition that “War is the contest of opposing wills” to find if there are corresponding shades between war and business.