Personal Goal Setting Can Make A Difference
One company takes both personal and business objectives into account to boost morale and performance. Read story
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Bring Your Friends To Work
One company's employee referral program shows that friends and family work well together. Read story
Small Company Finances
A chart displaying the financial workings of variously sized companies. Read story
ESOP Loans
Booklet provides information on ESOP lending. Read story
How To Encourage Suggestive Behavior
Suggestions on how to enhance communication in the office. Read story
Higher Price, Higher Sales
CEO defends higher prices in return for better quality services. Read story
Game Theory
Employees participate in a cost-cutting game to learn the price value of parts. Read story
Bill Collection: The Odds
Chart shows that the longer a bill is overdue, the less likely that it will be paid. Read story
Planned Philanthropy
A well-planned giving program makes it easier to refuse unwanted charity solicitation. Read story
Letters of Credit
Sending a letter of thanks helps relations with lending officers. Read story
Contracting To Prevent Loss
A CEO asks new employees to sign a contract saying that they'll pay the going rate for clients that they steal. Read story
All Present And Accounted For
Plan for maintaining control and accountability of employees in growing companies. Read story
The Gang That Got Away
Creators of Trivial Pursuit game start their own game company. Read story
Bear Market
Supplier competes with bears for her raw materials, berries. Read story
The Take at the Top
Survey compares big company CEOs' salaries to those of CEOs from growing companies. Read story
A Business Card In Every Pocket
Giving new employees personalized business cards helps welcome them to a new company. Read story
Bigger Carrot, Better Results
Delivery service lowers employee accident rate by rewarding cautious drivers. Read story
Keeping The Injured Involved
Reducing workers' compensation payments by bringing injured workers back sooner. Read story
What Wages are Worth
A chart showing the amount of time a person in different parts of the world must work in order to buy necessities. Read story
Scout's Honor
Looking for clues in a job applicant's past that might predict future performance. Read story
Polygraph Tests Banned
Explanation of law prohibiting lie detectors as a means of screening job applicants. Read story
Getting Bills Paid Early
Dealing with customers who take early-payment discounts when they don't apply. Read story
When Less Is More
Retailer test-sells a smaller number of new products in order to avoid an unsalable inventory. Read story
What it Really Costs Employers
A chart showing the average hourly employer costs for employee compensation by major industry groups. Read story
Open Communications
CEO suggests regular meetings with lending institutions to keep apace with the bank's portfolio. Read story
Sign of the Times
Paranoia sells: new catalog markets spy products to individuals. Read story
Secondhand Knowledge
A marketing research service that lists studies on U.S. and foreign markets. Read story
Is There A Lawyer In The House?
Lawyers who serve a company both as legal counselor and as business advisor may get mired in a gray area. Read story
Personalized Wisdom
One CEO's system for summarizing information gleaned from books on business. Read story
Here Come The Judges
One company's employee-review process includes peer and client review. Read story
And the Prize Is . . .
Different types of awards given to recognize achievement and the percentage of companies using a particular award. Read story
Technocrats
Some quick facts about the percentage of fast-growth companies accessing databases and using e-mail. Read story
Spell It Out
Companies must provide full descriptions of benefits to employees in order to remain tax exempt under Section 89k. Read story
The Friendliest Skies
Buying an airplane for business trips is an attractive, yet costly travel option. Read story
Keeping Councel
Some of the different types of counseling companies offer and the percentage of companies offering such services. Read story
A Prescription For Saving Money
Control the costs of medical insurance by self-insuring the prescription-drug portion of your insurance plan. Read story
Letters
Not So Hard To Swallow I loved John Case's review of Tom Peters's new book, Thriving on Chaos ("Hard to Swallow," Required Reading, Nove... Read story
Take Me To Your Leader
Biographies of corporate leaders have long been a staple of the business bookshelf. But when you ask a handful of today's best-known management theoretici... Read story
Four Pros Nominate Their Personal Favorites
Stock-market turmoil. Skyrocketing deficits. Fears for the future. OK, economists of the world, what one book would you recommend for understanding -- or ... Read story
On Gold
No, not a sequel by Joseph Heller, but a compendium of absorbing observations of the rare metal by people who seem to know what they are talking about -- ... Read story
