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  • The Seven Traits of Effective Teams
    Published 24 March 2009
    How many teams have you worked with over the course of your life thus far? You’ve probably worked with dozens, beginning with the sports teams from your youth leading all the way up to your current occupation. Out of all of those teams, which ones were...
  • In Bad Times, We Need to Get Back to Basics
    Published 18 March 2009
    Managers these days have to reevaluate everything – processes, projects, team organization among many others. What was working for your team two years ago, one year ago and even only a couple of months ago is not necessarily working now. The volatility...
  • Why Bother with ROI?
    Published 12 March 2009
    (Please note the tongue in cheek tone!) It amazes me how so many companies put plans and initiatives in motion without performing perhaps the most important task of the project – calculating return on investment (ROI). Put simply, ROI (Return on...
  • The Synergy between Process and Roles in Your Organization
    Published 4 March 2009
    You may know your coworkers' place in the organization, but where do they fit in a process? How has disorganization and proper role comprehension disrupted your business? As a manager, you know in theory and within your own mind how a particular project...
  • Four Techniques I Use to be a Better Manager
    Published 22 May 2008
    When I founded SmartDraw.com I was a software developer not a manager. Not that this mattered much because the only person I needed to manage at the time was me! As the company grew, management was "thrust upon me", and I learned four techniques I still...
  • Be a Better Manager - Organize Your Ideas with Mind Maps
    Published 5 May 2008
    Every new day presents a new set of problems to be solved; I work as a web developer and as a marketer thus I have to a wide range of problems, projects, and concerns that I have to attend to. Before I get started solving a new problem I take the time...


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