Articles Of Interest
Executive Management and Organizational Development:
- The 11 Required Elements of a Successful Vision – What is a “Vision” and How to Develop and Use It
- How Do You Grow a Company To $100 Million?
- Modes of Management – Shifting Management Gears As Your Company’s Stage of Development Evolves
- The Risk Assessment Landscape Map – A Framework For Viewing and Managing Business Risk.
- Management Methods That Work – An Effective Model For Building Your Organization Without Limits
- A Simple Framework For Employee Development
- Customer Service is Dead or Dying – Top 8 Ways to Improve Your Customer Service
- Overloaded? Lead Your Way Out!
- Management By Objective – A Time Tested Management Classic Everyone Should Use
- Management By Objective (MBO)- The Bigger Picture Annual Planning Process
- Leadership Lessons For Emerging Companies
- Reducing Customer Burden for Higher Sales
- Wages of Words – The power of words is amplified as a CEO
Designing Your Business, Vision, Product and Market Positioning:
- Strategic Planning – Not Just for Fortune 2000 Companies
- Six Ways to Grow Your Business
- The Messaging And Communications Pyramid – A Simple Overview Framework.
- Market Entry Strategy & Positioning and Using Competitive Landscape Maps
- Optimizing Your Sales and Marketing Process Without Spending More
- What is a “Vision” and How to Develop and Use It – The 11 Required Elements of a Successful Vision
- “Marketing” A Waste of Money Or The Most Important Thing You Can Do?
- Getting 10X Productivity in Product Development
- When Do You Need a New Vision or a Vision Tune-up?
- Principals of Risk Management
- The Risk Assessment Landscape Map – A Framework For Viewing and Managing Business Risk.
For Board Members, CEOs and Senior Executives Wishing To Become CEOs:
- 68 CEO Responsibilities – Source unknown
- The True Cost of a CEO – Current CEO Compensation Averages
- CEO’s Role in Early-Stage Companies
- Top Ten Tips On Hiring A Senior Executive
- Getting Value From Consultants
- Are Directors Obsolete? – Peter Cohen
- Giving Boards of Directors Some Bite – Peter Cohen
Managing Startups & Early-Stage Companies:
- Top 10 Rules For Startup Success
- The Perfect Startup Model – A Metaphor for Success
- Startup Versus Big Company – A Comparison of Operations Modes
- Eighty Percent Solutions – Why 100% Solutions Can Mean Certain Death For Early Stage Companies
- Common Startup Mistakes – A Series on Avoidable Errors That Have Killed Companies.
- Controlling Your Money and Resources
- Understanding Capital Expenditures and Their Real Cost
- Big Company Disease – And the Top Ten Signs A Company Has It
- Hiring and Job Scope in Early Stage Companies
- Twelve Secrets To Entrepreneurial Success
- 16 Deadly Sin Committed By Startups (reprinted from The Red Herring)
Finance:
- Top Ten Tips For Raising Angel Financing
- Top 11 Things NOT To Tell Angel Investors
- Landscape Map of Financing Environment Today – Angel vs. VC
- Fixing Venture Capital – From Joel on Software site
- See Book Recommendations on this Complex and Dynamic Topic
- SBA Lending Limits Increased To $2 million
- 10 Myths of Venture Capital – Reprint from The Red Herring
Human Capital and Hiring The Best:
- Top Ten Hiring Tips (For All Employees)
- Top Ten Tips On Hiring A Senior Executive
- The 16 Best Interview Questions Ever
- Thoughts Using Interim Management
- Getting Value From Consultants
- The Most Common Hiring Mistake Made Today
- Top 10 Reasons Why An Executive Hires A Coach
- Job Scope In Early-Stage Companies
- Advice From a Nobel Prize Winner on Human Capital Management
- The Disney Approach to Human Capital
Miscellaneous Other Articles:
- Redefining the Business-Owner/Professional Relationship: Moving From Dependency to Collaboration by Harvy Simkovits and Paul Faxon
- Code of Ethics of C-Level Enterprises and the Institute of Management Consultants
- Due Diligence Checklist
- See Reading and Book Recommendations
- Ten Keys to Copy That Sells Alexandria Brown – The eZine Queen
