256 Posts found for Source: Business Finance Magazine

New research shows that women managers outperform men in almost every management dimension. For women financial managers, this can translate into increased faith in their ability to climb to the top. The message for men is twofold: a call to develop their leadership skills and to recognize that their companies have a superior resource that is tremendously underutilized.

Content: Article | Author: Shari Caudron | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subject: Women in Business

Do you let ego and basic survival instincts dictate your workplace behavior? Are co-workers playing destructive power games that undermine your efforts? Being territorial isn’t always all bad, but if taken too far, it can work against you in today’s collaborative team environment.

Content: Article | Author: Carol Orsag Madigan | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Keeping valued employees is a key part of your job. So what can you do to recognize a job well done when money is tight?

Content: Article | Author: Carol Orsag Madigan | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

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We act as if diversity training is a shot to protect you from the measles, rather than preparation to allow you to go out and address diversity effectively. Most of what’s done under the rubric of diversity training is fundamentally awareness training. One of the big challenges we have is getting people beyond awareness.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources

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Instead of sifting through data-filled spreadsheets, turn on a filter and let the spreadsheet program search for the information you require.

Content: Article | Author: Marie McCooey | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subject: Productivity / Work Tips

CFOs have long suspected a link between a successful BPM initiative and increased profitability. New research connects the dots.

Content: Article | Author: Tad Leahy | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Finance, IT / Technology / E-Business

For open-book management to succeed, companies need to harness the ideas and abilities of all employees. Here’s how three complementary disciplines, the “I-Power Program,” the “Breakthrough Process” and the “Collaborative Way,” can create a culture that maximizes employee contribution.

Content: Article | Author: Ivy McLemore | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subject: Management

In the early stages of your career, you build advancement through your expertise, but as you get higher, more and more of what you do is managing. As that shift occurs, charisma becomes more important. The more your job requires an ability to motivate and inspire, an ability to bring about change, the more helpful it is to have charisma.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior

People are too complex to understand without their cooperation, and they are too difficult to change without their permission.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Change Management, Personality / Behavior

Intellectual capital – the knowledge, information, intellectual property and experience that can be used to careate wealth – may revolutionize business reporting. But how can such intangibles be measured, and how can those measures be used without opening the door to potential abuse and litigation?

Content: Article | Author: Carol Orsag Madigan | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subject: Finance

Companies are increasingly using business performance management software to slice and dice their profitability and improve decision-making.

Content: Article | Author: Meg Waters | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Finance, Marketing / Sales

IQ does not separate the star from the average performer. Every job has an IQ hurdle that people have to jump over, but whether you jump it and just barely clear it or whether you jump it and clear it by 30 extra points doesn’t seem to make a difference. People get mistakenly fixated on IQ as a predictor of success. There is data that … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Human Resources, Intelligence

This article demonstrates the advantages of using Excel’s outline feature to summarize data without having to hide the detail data.

Content: Article | Author: Marie McCooey | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Finance, Productivity / Work Tips

ABC/M models often fail to meet objectives because they include too much information. Improve your model’s efficiency and sustainability by limiting it to crucial data.

Content: Article | Author: Tad Leahy | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subject: Finance

Some new approaches to hiring can help you snag and keep top talent.

Editor’s Note: this was written in 1999 during the labor shortage, but some of the advice offered is of long-lasting value.

Content: Article | Author: Carol Orsag Madigan | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subject: Human Resources

Planning and control are Siamese twins. You can’t have control if you don’t have a plan, because the very definition of control is that you compare progress against your plan and take corrective action if you are off course. Another thing to remember, which seems counterintuitive, is that the more important a deadline is, the more important a plan becomes.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Management, Planning

The biggest barrier for most people is what I call the failure of success. When we find a pattern and it works, we tend to believe it as the truth. This makes us arrogant about what is right and wrong.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Change Management, Success / Failure

Rotating employees from job to job helps companies fill skill gaps while allowing workers to enhance their careers.

Content: Article | Author: Samuel Greengard | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subject: Human Resources