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  • Online Mentoring May Be Your Solution

    Small business owners have always had it tough when it came to finding mentoring help, but now several online alternatives are giving them access to tap into the experience and expertise of successful business people. A growing number of web sites, many of them currently for free, allow prospective mentors...
    Posted to Bill Lisowski's Blog (Weblog) by Bill Lisowski on 06-03-2008

  • 5 Tips on Managing Change

    Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel Corporation, offers these five tips for managing change (Wall Street Journal, April 28, 2008): Change before you need to, Measure how your operations perform and compare them to best-in-class companies, Trim layers of management--not only to reduce cost, but to speed up decisions...
    Posted to Bill Lisowski's Blog (Weblog) by Bill Lisowski on 04-28-2008

  • A Way to Stop Losing Top Talent

    Every company, every department, every team has one thing in common: they lose employees. Because turnover is a fact of organizational life, any strategy to reduce that cost can only have a positive affect to the bottom line. One key strategy is to conduct AND REVIEW exit interviews to determine what...
    Posted to Bill Lisowski's Blog (Weblog) by Bill Lisowski on 04-21-2008

  • Earn Success by Filtering the Mayhem Away from Employees

    An often visited theme here on my blog, and one appearing in our book, Positioning Success (page 60), is that people one of the most powerful reasons people stay with an organization is because of the people they work with! Futhermore, they are not driven by outlandish salaries; they are motivated by...
    Posted to Bill Lisowski's Blog (Weblog) by Bill Lisowski on 04-15-2008

  • Span and Control Issues are Key to Success

    Span and control, like all business trends and philosophies, has seen many different perspectives since the 1930s when experts believed managers could optimally handle seven to 10 people under their supervision. In the 1980s and 1990s, corporate restructuring saw that number increase with some European...
    Posted to Bill Lisowski's Blog (Weblog) by Bill Lisowski on 03-25-2008

  • Are Your Meetings Purely Social Events?

    Interesting research that is soon to be published indicates that even though many business professionals moan over attending meetings, they secretly enjoy them (Wall Street Journal columnist Jared Sandberg, March 11, 2008). Approximately 69% of those surveyed believed the last meeting attended was "good"...
    Posted to Bill Lisowski's Blog (Weblog) by Bill Lisowski on 03-11-2008

  • Don't Build Wall to Isolate IT Synergy

    Many top executives do not realize the value their IT talent and departments play in the success of their organization, mainly because they do not understand technology and its special language. Because of that, IT Departments are walled off from the mainstream organizational dynamics and seen merely...
    Posted to Bill Lisowski's Blog (Weblog) by Bill Lisowski on 03-10-2008

  • Too-Nice Bosses Worse Than Screamers

    Screamer bosses, those that rant and rave and let their emotions define their management style, may have once been the scourge of the workplace, yet their tirades had one advantage: You always knew where you stood and how well you were (or were not) performing. Fortunately, the number of screamers seams...
    Posted to Bill Lisowski's Blog (Weblog) by Bill Lisowski on 02-28-2008

  • Employees Need Tangible Results to Feel Satisfaction in their Performance

    Because the American workplace is largely a service-oriented one, today's workers are finding it harder to find satisfaction in their daily efforts because they lack one critical element to their daily work--a sense of tangible accomplishment. Think about it. On an average day, what can a service...
    Posted to Bill Lisowski's Blog (Weblog) by Bill Lisowski on 02-19-2008

  • 5 Tips for Managing Change

    Circuit City went into survival mode in 2006 when CEO Philip J. Schoonover eliminated 3,000 high-paying store positions. While the verdict is still out on the success of this and many other moves aimed at remaining competitive, Schoonover has five tips for managing a turnaround (Wall Street Journal,...
    Posted to Bill Lisowski's Blog (Weblog) by Bill Lisowski on 02-11-2008
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