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The Fraud Prevention Check-Up is a simple but powerful test of your company’s fraud health. How vulnerable are you to fraud? Do you have adequate controls in place to prevent it in your organization? To find out, simply download the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners’ Fraud Prevention Check-Up from this site.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) | Subjects: Management, Miscellaneous

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Looking for potential link targets should be fun, and this is one of those sites that really is a pleasure to stumble upon. It’s a useful place to find recommended sites in over 500 categories, and it’s also a great place to promote your own website and generate links.

StumbleUpon is a browser add-on that automates the process of word-of-mouth website recommendations with the StumbleUpon community. … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: StumbleUpon | Subject: Miscellaneous

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Your company’s intellectual property — whether that’s patents, trade secrets or just employee know-how — may be more valuable than its physical assets. This primer, compiled from CSO articles, covers basic and overlooked steps for keeping your secrets secret.

Content: Article | Source: CSO Magazine | Subjects: Legal, Miscellaneous

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Welcome to the boulevard of broken PC dreams – where
de-acquisition is a slippery art.

Content: Article | Author: Mike Ross | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Operations

This site provides a brief introduction to the overlap diagrams named for British logician John Venn, information about when to use Venn diagrams, a tool for creating Venn diagrams online and a database of diagrams that have been contributed by various users. From Coachville, a group of business and life coaches.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Coachville | Subject: Miscellaneous

This practical handbook explains the basics of systems thinking and shows how to construct causal loop diagrams and computerized dynamics modeling. UK consultant Sherwood explores how these tools are used to analyze common business issues, such as stimulating growth and establishing policy and strategy.

Content: Book | Author: Dennis Sherwood | Subjects: Management, Miscellaneous

Has the American workplace become too informal? Judith Martin, aka Miss Manners, takes business casual to task, starting with Jack Welch.

Content: Article | Author: Diane L. Coutu | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Organizational Behavior

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Presume/assume. Complement/compliment. All right, already. If you hesitate before choosing the correct word to use in this list, you’re not alone. And judging by most websites and instruction manuals, you have lots and lots of company.

Content: Article | Author: Crawford Kilian | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Personal Development

A must read for any consultant or more importantly any one who works with or hires consultants. Perhaps most importantly from a financial perspective, Romaine lays out a new conflict within the nexus of contracts: the shareholder vs. the consultant. While not necessarily against each other, the consultant has a much shorter time frame and hence differing incentives and we know that incentive … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Steve Romaine | Subjects: Industry Specific, Miscellaneous | Industry: Consulting

This short, self-assured novel by Australian-born Jennings (Snake) brilliantly depicts the complicated life of a working woman on Wall Street during the dot-com boom. Cath, a freelance writer in her 40s, is married to Bailey, who’s 25 years her senior. When he develops Alzheimer’s, she takes a speech-writing job at an investment bank to pay for his expensive medical care. Wry but realistic, and realizing … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Kate Jennings | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Women in Business | Industry: Investment Banking

Accepting vague or irrelevant numbers for project value can lead to bad spending decisions.

Content: Article | Author: Jack Keen | Source: CIO Magazine | Subjects: Management, Miscellaneous

Ever provocative, Peter Drucker turns his attention to the “bigger” picture of social structure and the care of community amongst the pluralistic and autonomous private, public, and social sector organizations.

Content: Article | Author: Peter F. Drucker | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Organizations spend billions of dollars for impractical or incomplete data, ineffective or inappropriate interventions, and poorly thought-out or implemented recommendations. This article can help you select a qualified consultant.

Content: Article | Author: Victoria A. Hoevemeyer | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Industry Specific, Miscellaneous | Industry: Consulting